Senior QA Lead: Automation & Quality Strategy

Ethara

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 240,000 - 360,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Ethara in Abu Dhabi seeks a Senior QA Engineer with strong manual testing and modern automation skills to shape quality standards and drive automation excellence across development teams. You'll lead test strategy, design comprehensive test plans for web and API apps, perform functional, regression, and API testing, validate data with SQL, and integrate tests into CI/CD.

You will mentor teammates to raise quality across projects.

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years of professional QA and software testing experience.
Led or owned test strategies on at least 4 successfully delivered projects.
Strong proficiency with Selenium, Cypress or Playwright.
Hands-on API testing with Postman or REST Assured.
Strong SQL skills for database validation and testing.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and execution of test strategies and automation frameworks.
Develop and maintain manual and automated test cases for web and API apps.
Perform functional, regression, integration, and API testing.
Validate data integrity through database testing and backend verification.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to improve release quality.
Track and manage defects while communicating risks and quality metrics to stakeholders.
Mentor QA team members and promote testing best practices across projects.