Quality Assurance

Emdad By Elm; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Emdad By Elm in Riyadh is seeking a QA/Test Engineer to strengthen our hands-on testing efforts across functional, API, integration, and regression testing. You will review requirements, design test scenarios, execute tests, and document defects.

You will work with developers and product teams in an Agile/DevOps environment, support automation initiatives using Playwright, Robot, Cypress, and CI/CD pipelines, and help ensure product quality across web applications and services.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of Software Testing / Quality Engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and STLC.
• Hands-on experience in Functional & Regression Testing.
• Experience with API Testing and SQL/Database Testing.
• Familiarity with Jira/Azure DevOps/TestRail tools.
• Good Agile/Scrum practices and test case design.

Responsibilities

• Review business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria and identify testing risks and gaps.
• Design and execute functional, integration, regression, system, exploratory, and end-to-end test scenarios.
• Perform API testing using Postman, SoapUI, or similar.
• Validate backend and database data using SQL queries.
• Test web applications, integrations, services, and business workflows.
• Report and track defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence, severity, and business impact.
• Maintain test cases, test evidence, regression suites, and requirement traceability.
• Participate in Agile activities including refinement, sprint planning, daily meetings, and retrospectives.
• Support release validation and provide clear visibility of testing risks and blockers.
• Contribute to test automation using Playwright, Robot, Cypress, Appium, or similar.
• Support continuous testing and automated execution within CI/CD pipelines.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts, product owners, DevOps, and other stakeholders to improve overall product quality.

Skills

Functional Testing

API Testing

Database Validation

Integration Testing

Regression Testing

Defect Management

Test Automation

Agile/DevOps

Jira / Azure DevOps / TestRail

Tools

Playwright

Robot Framework

Cypress

Appium

Postman

SoapUI

SQL

Job description

A Candidate with strong hands-on experience in functional testing, API testing, database validation, integration testing, regression testing, and defect management, with good exposure to test automation and Agile/DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria and identify testing risks and gaps.
• Design and execute functional, integration, regression, system, exploratory, and end-to-end test scenarios.
• Perform API testing using tools such as Postman, SoapUI, or similar.
• Validate backend and database data using SQL queries.
• Test web applications, integrations, services, and business workflows.
• Report and track defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence, severity, and business impact.
• Maintain test cases, test evidence, regression suites, and requirement traceability.
• Participate in Agile activities including refinement, sprint planning, daily meetings, and retrospectives.
• Support release validation and provide clear visibility of testing risks and blockers.
• Contribute to test automation using tools such as Playwright, Robot, Cypress, Appium, or similar.
• Support continuous testing and automated execution within CI/CD pipelines.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts, product owners, DevOps, and other stakeholders to improve overall product quality.

Required Skills:

• Experience with 2-4 years of experience in Software Testing / Quality Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and STLC.
• Hands-on experience in:

-Functional & Regression Testing

-API Testing

-Integration Testing

-SQL / Database Testing

-Web Application Testing

-Test Case Design & Execution

• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, or similar tools.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum practices.
• Basic to intermediate experience with test automation.
• Basic knowledge of Git, CI/CD, and DevOps concepts.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Preferred:

• Experience with Playwright, Robot, Cypress, or similar Testing Automation tool.
• Exposure to performance testing using JMeter or k6.
• Basic understanding of security testing and OWASP principles.
• Experience with government, enterprise, or highly integrated digital platforms is a plus.