QA Engineer

Democrance; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 149,981 - 224,971; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the business

Career shaping role

Impactful work across MENA

Job summary

Democrance is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure quality in products aimed at Arabic-speaking users. The role focuses on Arabic localisation, API testing, and implementing automated testing frameworks.

With 4–7 years of experience preferred, the ideal candidate will blend strong skills in testing with Arabic fluency and will proactively shape QA strategies. Benefits include equity in the business and the opportunity to influence your career.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of QA experience, ideally in fintech or API-heavy products.
• Native or near-native Arabic fluency required.
• Solid API testing skills with Postman and REST Assured.
• Hands-on experience with Cypress, Playwright, or Appium.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and integrating tests.

Responsibilities

• Own Arabic language quality end-to-end for UI and error messages.
• Write and execute test plans for functional and non-functional requirements.
• Design and run API test cases across embedded finance endpoints.
• Help shape requirements and acceptance criteria before code is written.
• Use AI tooling to generate test cases and synthetic data.

Skills

API testing skills

Arabic fluency

Automation framework experience

CI/CD tooling experience

Performance testing exposure

Tools

Postman

REST Assured

Cypress

Playwright

GitHub Actions

Job description

Job Description

We move fast. The product is live, the roadmap is full, and quality has to keep up without becoming the thing that slows everyone down. We’re looking for a QA engineer who has enough execution experience to understand what good looks like and is hungry to build the frameworks, automation, and habits that raise the bar for the whole team.

Arabic fluency is central to this role, not a bonus. A large part of what we build is for Arabic-speaking users, and we need someone who can genuinely own the quality of that experience — the language, the flow, the feel of it — not just tick a localisation checklist.

What you’ll be doing

Arabic localisation & RTL testing

Own Arabic language quality end-to-end: UI copy, error messages, onboarding, legal text. Test RTL rendering across devices and write bilingual test cases covering language switching, locale formatting, and input validation.

Test planning & execution

Write and execute test plans across functional and non-functional requirements for web and mobile. Cover the full embedded finance journey — account linking, payment initiation, balance retrieval, consent management — with thorough negative testing and edge cases throughout.

API testing & automation

Design and run API test cases across embedded finance endpoints using Postman or REST Assured. Write automated tests across UI and API layers with Cypress, Playwright, or Appium, and wire them into GitHub Actions pipelines so quality gates run on every build.

QA strategy & shift-left

Help move quality thinking upstream — shaping requirements and acceptance criteria before code is written. Work with squads to define coverage expectations across unit, integration, system, and UAT, and get non-functional testing (performance, security, accessibility) taken seriously across the org.

AI-augmented testing

Use AI tooling to generate test cases, edge cases, and synthetic data faster and use the time saved to go deeper on the things that need human judgement. Help the team understand where AI fits in their testing workflow, and where it doesn’t.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of QA experience, ideally with some time in fintech, open banking, payments, or API-heavy products
• Native or near-native Arabic fluency — you can read a localised UI and tell us, without a checklist, whether it sounds right
• Solid API testing skills with Postman, REST Assured, or comparable tooling
• Hands‑on with at least one automation framework: Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or Appium
• Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tooling and comfort plugging tests into a pipeline
• Some exposure to performance and security testing: k6, JMeter, OWASP ZAP, or Burp Suite
• Fluent English alongside Arabic — clear bug reports, documentation, and stakeholder updates in both
• Practical experience with AI tooling and a sense of where it helps and where it doesn’t

Benefits

• Equity in the business — you’ll own a piece of what you help build
• The kind of role that shapes your career — you’re building the role, not inheriting it
• Working on a product that’s genuinely changing how finance works across the MENA region