Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
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Eddekhar is a Saudi-based fintech company building infrastructure that helps companies automate employee savings, investments, and payroll-connected financial benefits.
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Company Description
Eddekhar is a Saudi-based fintech company building infrastructure that helps companies automate employee savings, investments, and payroll-connected financial benefits.
We integrate with HR systems, payroll providers, banks, government KYC services, and investment platforms to deliver modern, compliant financial wellness solutions for employees.
We are a small, senior, fast-moving team building a regulated, money-moving platform where quality, reliability, and security are critical from day one.
Role Description
This is a full-time role for a
Qa Automation Engineer
.
This is a founding QA role within Eddekhar’s engineering team.
You will lead our QA automation practice across backend services, web, mobile, APIs, and third-party integrations.
You will be responsible for setting QA automation standards, building reliable test frameworks, integrating quality gates into our CI/CD pipelines, and helping the engineering team release with confidence.
This role is not only about testing at the end of development.
Quality at Eddekhar starts from refinement, continues through development, and is enforced before release.
We are looking for someone proactive, technical, and ownership-driven who can build the QA function properly from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of automation frameworks for web, mobile, API, and integration testing
- Build and maintain regression, integration, smoke, contract, and performance test suites
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and controlled releases
- Define quality gates for pull requests, QA branches, nightly test runs, pre-release checks, and production releases
- Test fintech-critical workflows including onboarding, KYC, payroll-driven flows, wallet/ledger operations, contributions, investments, withdrawals, admin flows, and notifications
- Own third-party integration testing and resilience across banks, government KYC services, investment platforms, SMS, email, and HR/payroll providers
- Build record/replay testing strategies, sandbox smoke tests, and synthetic probes to detect integration issues early
- Work closely with backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, and product teams to ensure quality across the full SDLC
- Review requirements and user stories early to define test scenarios before development starts
- Review pull requests from a testability and quality perspective
- Support characterization testing for legacy or existing code
- Surface quality metrics including pipeline pass rate, flaky tests, test coverage on critical flows, defect escape rate, and MTTR
- Triage automated test results and production issues, identify root causes, and recommend improvements
- Mentor future QA team members and establish QA automation best practices
Qualifications
- 5+ years of QA experience, with at least 3 years focused on automation
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar web automation tools
- Strong hands-on experience with API testing, including REST APIs, authentication flows, error handling, idempotency, and data validation
- Strong programming or scripting skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, or a similar language
- Proven experience building automation frameworks from scratch, not only maintaining existing frameworks
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools
- Strong understanding of test pyramid principles, test reliability, test isolation, deterministic testing, and flaky test management
- Experience writing and maintaining regression, integration, smoke, end-to-end, and API test suites
- Strong understanding of production risk, especially in financial, regulated, or transaction-based systems
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills
- Ability to work independently and take ownership in a fast-moving engineering environment
Strong Plus
- Experience with mobile E2E testing using Maestro, Detox, or Appium
- Experience with performance testing using k6 or JMeter
- Experience with contract testing using Pact or OpenAPI-driven validation
- Experience with security testing using OWASP ZAP, Burp, or OWASP Top 10 methodologies
- Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, or GitOps-based deployments
- Experience with Grafana, Sentry, Datadog, New Relic, or similar observability tools
- Experience testing legacy systems and building characterization tests
- Experience using AI-assisted test authoring with discipline and proper validation
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, HR/payroll systems, or regulated environments
- Experience in Saudi or GCC regulatory contexts is a strong advantage
- Arabic-language UX testing experience is a plus
- Experience setting up a QA practice from scratch in an early-stage company
- Track record of measurably reducing defect escape rate or improving release quality
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