QA Software Engineer (Senior, Remote)

Full Description

span> span>What You ll Be Doing:/span> /span> /p>

Build the QA Foundation: Establish and own the entire Quality Assurance function.

You will single-handedly define the tools, create the processes, and set the quality standards for the entire engineering team.

Architect and Implement Automation: Personally design, build, and maintain a scalable test automation framework for our entire technology stack, from backend APIs to front-end web applications.

Be the Hands-On Expert: Act as the dedicated, hands-on expert for all testing activities including writing and executing automated scripts, performing critical manual and exploratory testing, and validating API functionality.

Drive a Culture of Quality: Champion quality across the engineering team by embedding best practices directly into the development lifecycle and demonstrating the value of robust testing.

Own the CI/CD Quality Gates: Take full ownership of integrating automated tests into our CI/CD pipeline to create reliable quality gates for every deployment.

span> span>Minimum Qualifications:/span> /span> /p>

Education: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in Quality Assurance, with a strong, hands-on focus on test automation.

Proven Autonomy: Demonstrated experience thriving in an autonomous role, such as being a solo QA engineer or founding the QA practice in a previous position.

Location: Must be based in Egypt.

Work Hours: Ability to work full-time during standard business hours in Riyadh, KSA (GMT+3).

Test Architecture Expertise: Deep, hands-on expertise in architecting and building test automation frameworks from scratch using JavaScript, Python, or Java.

Tooling Mastery: Expert-level proficiency with modern testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Postman).

CI/CD Integration: Proven experience designing and implementing comprehensive automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

span> span>Nice to Have (Bonus Points! )/span> /span> /p>

Advanced Cloud Expertise: Significant experience testing applications in an AWS cloud environment, particularly with serverless architectures (Lambda), containers (ECS/EKS), and using services like CloudWatch for deep-dive analysis.

Performance Engineering: Deep knowledge of performance and load testing methodologies and tools (e.g., JMeter, k6, Gatling).

Database Skills: Strong SQL skills for complex data validation and a good understanding of NoSQL databases.

Security Testing: Familiarity with common web application security vulnerabilities and basic security testing principles.