Senior QA Lead: Agile Testing & Automation

Mashreq Careers; Pakistan; On-site; PKR 1,100,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Mashreq Careers is seeking a QA Engineer to join agile squads and ensure the quality of IT applications and services. The role involves both manual and automated testing, with a focus on building robust test strategies and collaborating across product, design and development teams.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in QA or software development, strong programming and SQL skills, and experience with modern testing frameworks. Banking domain familiarity is a plus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Quality Assurance or software development.
• Proficient in Java, Python or JavaScript.
• Strong SQL writing skills.
• Experience with automated and manual testing.
• Familiar with CI/CD and version control (Jenkins, Git, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with testing frameworks and tools (Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, Appium, Espresso, Postman, Rest Assured, JMeter).
• Knowledgeable about banking processes and customer needs.
• DevOps culture experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive test strategy and automation, coach others.
• Perform end-to-end automated tests for large releases with external stakeholders.
• Own testing processes across squads and departments.
• Ensure acceptance criteria are testable during grooming and planning.
• Collaborate with designers, SMEs and Product Owner on testing inputs.
• Work in an agile/scrum environment and meet sprint commitments.
• Maintain traceability of testing activities.
• Estimate effort for testing tasks.
• Define test approach per sprint and extract test requirements.
• Design and create test cases; write and execute tests (manual/auto).
• Perform manual front-end functional testing including system, integration, regression and end-to-end tests.
• Log defects and coordinate with developers in defect-tracking system.
• Maintain test environments and data; provide first-line support and root-cause analysis.
• Define best practices for testing in agile; drive continuous quality improvements.
• Mitigate product and project risks to ensure smooth deployments.
• Maintain regression test suites (manual/auto).
• Carry out exploratory testing and final sign-off of releases.

Skills

Programming (Java, Python, JS)

SQL

Automation testing

Selenium

Cypress

TestNG

JUnit

Appium

Postman

REST Assured

JMeter

CI/CD (Jenkins/Git/Azure DevOps)

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

TestNG

JUnit

Appium

Espresso

Postman

Rest Assured

JMeter

Jenkins

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Mashreq Careers is seeking a QA Engineer to join agile squads and ensure the quality of IT applications and services. The role involves both manual and automated testing, with a focus on building robust test strategies and collaborating across product, design and development teams.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in QA or software development, strong programming and SQL skills, and experience with modern testing frameworks. Banking domain familiarity is a plus.