Senior QA & Test Automation Manager

Mashreqbank PSC; Pakistan; On-site; PKR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mashreqbank PSC is seeking a QA Engineer to join its IT team to deliver and maintain IT applications and services that support the bank's strategy. The role focuses on agile squad work, manual and automated testing, and ensuring quality across releases.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in QA, strong automation skills with Selenium/Cypress and programming in Java/Python/JS, plus SQL and CI/CD familiarity. You will collaborate closely with developers and stakeholders in an Agile DevOps environment.

Qualifications

• More than 3 years of experience in Quality Assurance field and/or as a Software Developer.
• You can program (we use Java, Python or JavaScript) or are interested in learning to program.
• You know how to write SQL.
• You know where it is most effective for an automated test to live. (Unit, Integration, E2E).
• You can speak the same language as the developers.
• You understand the benefits of manual testing but also the costs.
• You are continually trying to improve your testing skills.
• You will need to help solve the complex testing issues we face.
• Strong experience working with testing frameworks and tools like Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, Junit, Appium, Espresso, Postman, Rest Assured, jMeter etc.
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and best practices including build and source control automation tools such as Jenkins, Git, MS Azure Devops
• Knowledge of test automation, Mobile Testing, TDD, BDD, functional testing, SIT, regression testing, performance testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing
• Several years of experience within software development and knowledge of an Agile software development process Good understanding of auto-scaling software solutions and monitoring tools (Splunk)
• Good understanding of the E2E system landscape
• Experience with API/Web Service testing
• Knowledgeable of banking processes and customer needs
• Experience within a DevOps culture and tools is a plus

Responsibilities

• Drive the squad’s test strategy and test efforts, e.g. taking initiative to automate where possible and coaching others.
• Perform end-to-end automated tests in relation to larger releases with external stakeholders.
• Own the process during test periods where functionality is tested across several squads and departments.
• Be an active participant in grooming and planning, to ensure that acceptance criteria are testable.
• Sit together with designers, SMEs and Product Owner while user stories are developed, bringing input and helping with the testing angle.
• Work in an agile/scrum environment, meeting sprint commitments and contributing to the agile process.
• Maintain traceability of testing activities.
• Estimating effort for testing tasks.
• Defining the test approach for each sprint.
• Extracting test requirements for user stories.
• Designing and creating test cases.
• Write and Executing test cases manually / automated.
• Manual front end functional testing of applications – which includes system, integration, regression and end to end testing as well as exploratory testing.

Skills

Programming languages: Java/Python/JS

SQL

Agile/Scrum knowledge

QA process & testing strategy

Communication with developers

Continuous improvement mindset

Issue solving & debugging

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

TestNG

JUnit

Appium

Espresso

Postman

Rest Assured

JMeter

Jenkins

Git

MS Azure DevOps

Splunk

Job description

Mashreqbank PSC is seeking a QA Engineer to join its IT team to deliver and maintain IT applications and services that support the bank's strategy. The role focuses on agile squad work, manual and automated testing, and ensuring quality across releases.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in QA, strong automation skills with Selenium/Cypress and programming in Java/Python/JS, plus SQL and CI/CD familiarity. You will collaborate closely with developers and stakeholders in an Agile DevOps environment.