Senior QA Automation Engineer

Team: IT

Location: Saudi Arabia

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Contribute to feature refinement by challenging assumptions, clarifying requirements, identifying edge cases, and assessing system architecture and testability.
• Develop and formalize comprehensive test strategies covering test scenarios, integration points, test data, APIs, applications, queues, databases, and result verification.
• Deploy and configure software updates in QA environments and execute functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and end-to-end tests.
• Investigate defects, identify root causes where possible, and document bugs with clear, accurate reproduction steps and supporting information.
• Validate completed functionality and provide production sign-off when quality and acceptance criteria have been met.
• Drive test automation for both new and existing features, working closely with quality engineering leadership to maintain reliable and effective automated test suites.
• Act as the team’s automation specialist and promote quality engineering practices across the wider development organization.
• Perform backend testing through multiple interaction methods, including REST APIs, message queues, databases, and front-end interfaces.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, technical leads, developers, and other stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Advocate for quality, usability, testability, and continuous improvement while managing and reprioritizing multiple workstreams in a dynamic environment.
• During the first 90 days, build a strong understanding of the products, customers, teams, tools, and processes, while establishing relationships and contributing to the team’s quality goals.
• Participate actively in feedback, professional development, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of proven experience working as a QA tester or QA engineer within an Agile software development environment.
• Strong experience developing test strategies, defining test scenarios, and writing detailed test cases.
• Extensive experience testing backend systems using multiple approaches, including REST APIs, message queues, databases, and front-end interfaces.
• Strong SQL skills and practical experience with relational database tools such as DBeaver, SQL Server, or MySQL Workbench.
• Experience creating or seeding databases with test data is an advantage.
• Solid understanding and hands-on experience with Git and version control workflows.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP; familiarity with AWS services including EKS, RDS, SQS, and API Gateway is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with API testing and documentation tools such as Swagger, Bruno, and Postman.
• Experience writing and maintaining test scripts using JavaScript.
• Knowledge of configuring mocks for isolated service testing is highly desirable.
• Strong exploratory testing skills, with a sharp eye for functional defects, edge cases, usability concerns, and unexpected behavior.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical abilities, with the capacity to investigate issues and communicate findings clearly and efficiently.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills, with the flexibility to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• A proactive, collaborative mindset with the confidence to challenge assumptions and advocate for quality.
• At senior level, the ability to influence software quality beyond your immediate team and contribute to broader engineering improvements.
• Strong ownership, curiosity, communication, and continuous-learning skills.

Benefits

• Fully remote working environment.
• Opportunity to work within a diverse, international team spanning multiple countries and cultures.
• Meaningful opportunity to contribute to technology that improves financial access and supports communities.
• High level of trust, autonomy, and ownership without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Collaborative culture focused on customer impact, experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunities to influence quality engineering practices beyond your immediate team.
• Structured career and development conversations, including the opportunity to create a training and career growth plan aligned with your goals.
• Regular feedback and opportunities to learn from experienced colleagues across product, engineering, and other functions.
• A supportive environment that values well-being, collaboration, accountability, and having fun while doing meaningful work.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package, subject to the applicable employment location and hiring arrangement.