Senior QA Automation Engineer - Web & API Testing Lead

SBS; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SBS is seeking a Mid-Level QA Engineer to join our Digital Banking Platform team in Dubai. You will collaborate with software engineers, product owners and DevOps to deliver high-quality software, blending manual and automated testing within an Agile environment.

You’ll design test strategies, develop automation for web, mobile and backend services, and contribute to CI pipelines for fast feedback. Strong SQL, API testing and communication skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering.
• Strong API testing and modern web technologies experience.
• Experience in Agile environments and software development lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of SQL and database validation.
• Familiarity with Git and CI pipelines.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Participating in story refinement to identify quality risks and ensure requirements are testable.
• Designing test strategies with unit, component, integration, API and end-to-end testing.
• Developing and maintaining automated tests for web, mobile and backend services.
• Performing exploratory and risk-based testing where automation is not suitable.
• Investigating defects, performing root cause analysis and collaborating with developers to resolve issues.
• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines to provide fast, reliable feedback.
• Validating functionality, integrations, analytics and business workflows across platforms.
• Supporting release activities through regression and smoke testing.
• Identifying opportunities to improve testability, automation frameworks and processes.
• Leveraging AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and test analysis.

Skills

API testing

Agile testing

SQL

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Playwright

Appium

Selenium

REST Assured

WireMock

TestContainers

GitLab

Docker

Oracle & SQL Databases

Grafana

Dynatrace

Job description

SBS is seeking a Mid-Level QA Engineer to join our Digital Banking Platform team in Dubai. You will collaborate with software engineers, product owners and DevOps to deliver high-quality software, blending manual and automated testing within an Agile environment.

You’ll design test strategies, develop automation for web, mobile and backend services, and contribute to CI pipelines for fast feedback. Strong SQL, API testing and communication skills are essential for success in this role.