Expert Quality Engineer

Purpose

Quality Engineering Responsibilities

• Act as a senior quality engineering authority across squads and platforms.
• Define test strategies and establish quality engineering standards and testing practices.
• Design and own automated testing frameworks across web, mobile, and APIs.
• Lead quality validation for complex and business-critical releases.

Certification and Compliance

• Drive certification and compliance testing with SAMA, mada, Visa, Mastercard, and other external entities.
• Prepare and submit test evidence, certification artifacts, and audit documentation for regulators and scheme bodies.
• Manage certification schedules, defect turnaround, and resubmission cycles.

Testing and Release Quality

• Define functional, integration, regression, performance, security, and reliability testing approaches.
• Review requirements and solution designs to identify quality risks early.
• Assess release quality and escalate critical risks before production deployment.
• Improve automation coverage and continuous testing in CI/CD.

Collaboration and Capability

• Analyze quality trends and recurring defects to drive systemic improvements.
• Mentor quality engineers and raise testing capability across the chapter.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and compliance teams across the delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Master’s degree is preferred.
• 5+ years of quality engineering experience, including ownership of test strategy and automation frameworks.
• Proven experience running external certification with payment schemes or a financial regulator.
• Strong automation experience with Selenium, Playwright, Appium, REST Assured, or a similar tool, plus performance testing.
• Payments domain knowledge including ISO 8583/20022, EMV, and settlement or reconciliation flows.
• Professional certificates are listed as a qualification.