QA Strategy Lead for FinTech & API Testing

تمام | tamam; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist to lead software QA activities across lending, payments, integrations, and platforms. The role focuses on QA strategy, test automation, release quality, defect management, and governance throughout the SDLC.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in manual and automated testing, API testing, with FinTech exposure. You will work with CI/CD, Git workflows, and performance testing, and mentor QA engineers to ensure quality delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 4+ years in software QA, testing, or related role.
• Strong experience in manual and automated testing across web, mobile, API, backend.
• Hands-on with test automation frameworks, API testing, performance testing, and defect management tools.
• Familiar with CI/CD, Agile, and Git workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end QA activities across web, mobile, API, and backend systems.
• Define and implement QA strategies, test plans, test cases, and release validation processes.
• Manage functional, integration, regression, UAT, performance, and automation testing.
• Ensure software quality across lending workflows, payments, integrations, and financial platforms.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks and API testing practices.
• Collaborate with development, business, product, DevOps, and operations teams.
• Track defects, root causes, testing metrics, and release readiness.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and implement quality gates for automated deployments.
• Mentor QA engineers and enforce testing standards, documentation, and best practices.
• Support production validation, incident analysis, and post-release QA.

Skills

Manual testing

Automated testing

API testing

CI/CD

Git workflows

QA strategy

Defect management

Test automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Selenium

Postman

JIRA

Jenkins

Job description

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist to lead software QA activities across lending, payments, integrations, and platforms. The role focuses on QA strategy, test automation, release quality, defect management, and governance throughout the SDLC.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in manual and automated testing, API testing, with FinTech exposure. You will work with CI/CD, Git workflows, and performance testing, and mentor QA engineers to ensure quality delivery.