Automation QA Lead: Hands-on Technical Leader

Syscort Technologies; Dubai; On-site; AED 279,000 - 446,000; Full time

Job summary

Syscort Technologies is seeking an experienced QA Lead – Automation in Dubai to guide a hands-on QA team while actively contributing technically. The role emphasizes Java, Selenium, API testing and CI/CD, with strong mentoring and leadership responsibilities across multiple projects.

The ideal candidate has 8–10 years in QA, proven architecture and framework design experience, and the ability to balance coding with team coaching in an Agile setting.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of QA/testing experience with hands-on Java + Selenium automation.
• Experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks.
• Experience mentoring and managing QA engineers.
• Strong API testing, CI/CD integration and test automation strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain robust Java + Selenium automation frameworks.
• Write and maintain automated test scripts for functional, regression and integration testing.
• Define automation strategy, standards and best practices.
• Review and improve existing automation frameworks and test coverage.
• Perform hands-on coding, debugging and troubleshooting.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure automation quality and maintainability.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation coverage and reduce manual testing effort.
• Lead, mentor and manage a team of QA engineers and automation testers.
• Allocate tasks, review deliverables and monitor team performance.
• Provide technical guidance and support to QA engineers.
• Establish QA processes, standards and development practices.
• Conduct knowledge-sharing and mentoring sessions.
• Support recruitment and onboarding of QA resources.
• Define test strategy, test plans and overall QA approach for projects.
• Plan and execute functional, regression, integration and system testing.
• Manage defect lifecycle and coordinate with development teams for resolution.
• Track QA metrics including automation coverage, defect leakage and test execution.
• Perform API testing using Postman and/or REST Assured.
• Develop automated API test cases.
• Validate integrations and backend processes.
• Perform database validation using SQL.
• Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps.
• Monitor automated test execution and troubleshoot pipeline failures.
• Support continuous testing practices within the development lifecycle.

Skills

Java

Selenium

Automation framework design

API testing

CI/CD

SQL

TestNG/JUnit

Maven/Gradle

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

REST Assured

Postman

Jira

Job description

Syscort Technologies is seeking an experienced QA Lead – Automation in Dubai to guide a hands-on QA team while actively contributing technically. The role emphasizes Java, Selenium, API testing and CI/CD, with strong mentoring and leadership responsibilities across multiple projects.

The ideal candidate has 8–10 years in QA, proven architecture and framework design experience, and the ability to balance coding with team coaching in an Agile setting.