Expert Quality Engineer

TAWANTECH; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

TAWANTECH is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer in Riyadh to define testing strategies, own automated frameworks, and drive certification with payment schemes and regulators.

You will lead quality validation for critical releases, collaborate across engineering and compliance, and mentor engineers to raise testing capability while expanding CI/CD automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; master’s preferred.
• 5+ years in quality engineering with test strategy ownership.
• Experience running external certification with payment schemes or regulator.
• Strong automation background with web/mobile/API testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior quality engineering authority across squads and platforms.
• Define comprehensive test strategies for complex applications, platforms, and integrations.
• Establish quality engineering standards, methodologies, and testing practices.
• Design and own automated testing frameworks across web, mobile, and APIs.
• Drive certification and compliance testing with SAMA and payment schemes.
• Prepare and submit test evidence and audit documentation for regulators.
• Manage external certification cycles and defect turnaround.
• Lead quality validation for complex releases.
• Define approaches for functional, integration, regression, performance, security, and reliability testing.
• Review requirements to identify quality risks early.
• Analyze quality trends to drive systemic improvements.
• Drive automation coverage and CI/CD improvements.
• Assess release quality and elevate risks prior to production.
• Mentor quality engineers and raise testing capability across the chapter.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and compliance teams.

Skills

Quality strategy ownership

Mentoring & leadership

Regulatory compliance awareness

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk assessment & mitigation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s preferred

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Appium

REST Assured

Job description

Purpose:

To provide advanced quality engineering expertise by defining testing strategies, driving automation and quality standards, and ensuring complex technology solutions meet required levels of reliability, performance, security, and functionality.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as senior quality engineering authority across squads and platforms.
• Define comprehensive test strategies for complex applications, platforms, and integrations.
• Establish quality engineering standards, methodologies, and testing practices.
• Design and own automated testing frameworks and reusable testing solutions across web, mobile, and APIs.
• Drive certification and compliance testing with SAMA, payment schemes (mada, Visa, Mastercard), and other external entities.
• Own preparation and submission of test evidence, certification artifacts, and audit documentation for regulators and scheme bodies.
• Manage external certification cycles, including scheduling, defect turnaround, and re-submission.
• Lead quality validation for complex and business-critical releases.
• Define approaches for functional, integration, regression, performance, security, and reliability testing.
• Review requirements and solution designs to identify quality risks early.
• Analyze quality trends and recurring defects to drive systemic improvements.
• Drive improvements in automation coverage and continuous testing in CI/CD.
• Assess release quality and elevate critical risks prior to production deployment.
• Mentor quality engineers and raise testing capability across the chapter.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and compliance teams to embed quality across the lifecycle.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years in quality engineering, including ownership of test strategy and automation frameworks.
• Proven experience running external certification with payment schemes or a financial regulator.
• Strong automation background (Selenium, Playwright, Appium, REST Assured, or similar) plus performance testing.
• Payments domain knowledge, including ISO 8583/20022, EMV, and settlement/reconciliation flows
• Professional Certificates.