Senior QA & Test Automation Lead — Fintech, Remote

Caliberly; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Caliberly is seeking a Senior QA / Test Automation Engineer to ensure quality across a modern cross-border payments platform. The role focuses on automation for complex distributed back-end systems and web apps, with strong API and microservice testing.

You will lead QA efforts in an Agile environment, mentor engineers, and drive test strategy and coverage. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in QA, hands-on with Selenium/Cypress/Playwright, REST-assured, and CI/CD, and experience with messaging

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in QA / software testing, with a strong focus on test automation.
• Solid experience designing and executing test strategies for complex, distributed back-end systems and web applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and tools (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, REST-assured, JUnit/TestNG).
• Experience testing RESTful APIs, microservices, and message-based integrations (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Good understanding of functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing practices.
• Hands-on with CI/CD integration for automated test suites (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Strong skills in test case design, defect management, and clear documentation.
• Leadership: ability to supervise and track progress of the QA / test automation team, plan and prioritize tasks, define test plans and coverage, review test assets, and mentor junior and mid-level QA engineers.
• Experience working in Agile teams, collaborating closely with product managers, developers, and DevOps.
• Bonus: experience in fintech/payments, cross-border transfers, ISO 20022/SWIFT flows, or high-availability, mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA / test automation efforts for end-to-end platform quality.
• Design and implement test strategies for complex distributed systems.
• Mentor junior/mid-level QA engineers and coordinate test plans.
• Collaborate with product, dev, and DevOps in Agile sprints.
• Ensure CI/CD integrated automated test suites across pipelines.

Skills

Test automation

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

REST-assured

JUnit/TestNG

API testing

CI/CD

Test design

Leadership

Agile

Kafka/RabbitMQ testing

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

REST-assured

JUnit

TestNG

Job description

Caliberly is seeking a Senior QA / Test Automation Engineer to ensure quality across a modern cross-border payments platform. The role focuses on automation for complex distributed back-end systems and web apps, with strong API and microservice testing.

You will lead QA efforts in an Agile environment, mentor engineers, and drive test strategy and coverage. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in QA, hands-on with Selenium/Cypress/Playwright, REST-assured, and CI/CD, and experience with messaging