Senior QA Engineer

confidential; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm in Riyadh is seeking an experienced QA Engineer to define and execute the QA strategy across web, mobile, and API surfaces. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in test automation, performance testing, and CI/CD integration. Responsibilities include designing automated tests, collaborating with teams, and maintaining release quality. This role offers an opportunity to mentor junior engineers and shape best practices in QA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional QA experience in product/SaaS environments.
• Hands-on experience with front-end and API automation.
• Solid scripting/programming skills in Python, JavaScript, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the QA strategy for features and releases.
• Design automated test suites for UI and API.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliability.

Skills

QA strategy

Test automation

Performance testing

CI/CD integration

Scripting skills

Agile teamwork

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

JMeter

GitHub Actions

Jira

Job description

Overview

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Define, own and execute the QA strategy for features and releases across web, mobile and API surfaces.
• Design and implement automated test suites for end-to-end flows (UI + API) and regression coverage using modern frameworks (e.g., Playwright/Cypress/Selenium + test runners).
• Build and maintain API test automation (contract tests, integration tests, fuzzing) for REST/GraphQL endpoints and webhooks.
• Create and run performance, load and scalability tests (JMeter, k6 or equivalent) and help the team identify bottlenecks and capacity limits.
• Lead security-oriented testing for features handling sensitive data (data masking, auth flows, role/permission checks, injection testing).
• Write clear test plans, acceptance criteria, test cases and QA tickets; triage defects and validate fixes across environments.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, ensure reliable test runs, flakiness reduction, and fast feedback loops for PRs.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps to surface telemetry, logs and metrics required for observability and post-release validation.
• Drive root-cause analysis for production incidents and contribute to post-mortems and corrective action plans.
• Coach and mentor QA engineers and help establish best practices (exploratory testing, shift-left testing, test data management).
• Own release gating criteria and help the Product/Engineering leadership make informed go/no-go decisions.

Skills

What background do I need for this job?

• 5+ years professional QA experience in product/SaaS environments, with proven ownership of automation and release quality.
• Strong hands-on experience with front-end (UI) automation and API automation (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST-assured, Postman/Newman, etc.).
• Demonstrable experience with performance/load testing tools (k6, JMeter, Gatling or similar).
• Practical knowledge of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and test integration into pipeline workflows.
• Solid scripting/programming skills (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript or Java) to create reliable test harnesses and tooling.
• Good understanding of web/mobile testing strategies (responsive, cross-browser, device farms/emulators).
• Experience testing authentication/authorization flows, encryption handling, and third-party identity integrations.
• Strong experience writing test plans, producing reproducible bug reports, and communicating trade-offs with stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in Agile teams and using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence engineers, product managers and leadership.

Nice to have?

• Familiarity with Python / FastAPI backends, React frontends.
• Experience with on-prem deployments and hybrid cloud patterns, including automation to validate configuration drift and data residency requirements.
• Background in security testing (SAST/DAST), pen-testing coordination, or working closely with a security engineering team.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling and using logs/metrics to validate releases and investigate incidents.
• Familiarity with regulated environments (PDPL, ISO 27001) and designing QA practices that support compliance evidence.