We are hiring a highly experienced Lead QA Specialist to oversee quality assurance initiatives in an Agile-driven software environment. The role involves leading a senior QA team, developing automation frameworks, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions across the lifecycle. This role requires both technical mastery and strategic leadership in software testing practices.
Key Responsibilities::
Leadership & Strategy::
- Lead and mentor a team of senior QA engineers in day-to-day testing operations.
- Define and enforce test strategies, plans, and regression suites covering system, integration, and release testing cycles.
- Champion Agile testing methodologies (TWWGWD) and quality best practices across teams.
- Build and maintain automated testing frameworks leveraging tools such as SmartBear TestComplete (3+ years), Selenium, and Postman/SOAPUI for API testing.
- Ensure full test integration into CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments.
- Design and execute functional, regression, and performance tests.
- Validate data integrity across SQL and NoSQL databases during test cycles.
- Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to troubleshoot and resolve defects.
- Manage the defect lifecycle, track quality KPIs, and generate actionable QA reports for stakeholders.
- Develop reusable test assets, generate test data, and support documentation efforts.
- Drive process improvement initiatives to reduce bugs, increase test coverage, and improve delivery velocity.
- 9+ yrs QA with 7 yrs in software-testing leadership; guide team of senior QA engineers.
- Define comprehensive test strategies & regression suites across system, integration & release cycles.
- Expertise: SmartBear TestComplete (3 yrs), Selenium automation, Postman/SOAPUI API testing, SQL & NoSQL validation.
- Build & maintain automated test frameworks; integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage defect lifecycle & quality metrics; ensure Agile (TWWGWD) test methodology adherence.
- Create reusable test assets, test data and detailed reports; drive continuous process improvement.
- Bachelor’s degree; strong planning, time-management, stakeholder communication; English & Arabic proficiency.
- Provident Fund
- Gym Membership
- Leaves as per the company policy.
- Company-paid trips
- Easy Loan Facility for Employees
- Yearly Increment
- Health Insurance (includes spouse and parents) (till the age of 80)