Senior QA Lead - (2-3) Month Engagement
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About the Role
MENA Consultant is seeking a Senior QA Lead for a 2-3 month engagement in Iraq. The role involves leading QA teams, establishing testing frameworks, and ensuring software release quality.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate QA team activities across manual and automation testing streams
- Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, and quality assurance frameworks
- Review business and technical requirements and translate them into test scenarios and test cases
- Oversee execution of functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, API, and UAT testing activities
- Monitor defects, ensure proper bug documentation, and support timely resolution
- Collaborate with Backend, Frontend, DevOps, and business teams to ensure quality objectives are achieved
- Establish and improve automation testing practices and quality processes
- Define QA KPIs and monitor team performance against established targets
- Prepare and communicate quality metrics, testing results, and release readiness reports
- Ensure quality standards are met before production deployment and support continuous improvement initiatives
Requirements
- Minimum 4 years of experience in software development and quality assurance, including at least 2 years in QA focused roles
- Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC
- Experience leading QA activities across web and mobile application projects
- Hands on experience with Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, API, Integration, UAT, and Security Testing
- Experience creating test plans, test scenarios, and test cases
- Experience managing defects and bug tracking processes
- Experience with Jira or similar test and project management tools
- Experience reviewing automation scripts
- Understanding of CI/CD concepts
- Experience using AI assisted tools for test case generation, log analysis, test coverage review, or QA documentation improvement
- Experience leading and managing QA teams
- Ability to design and implement a comprehensive Test Strategy
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Job Overview
- Location: Iraq
- Years of Experience: 4+ years
- Project Duration: 2 3 months
- Working Arrangement: on site
- Language Requirements: Fluency in Arabic & English (written and spoken)
- Starting Date: as soon as possible
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate QA team activities across manual and automation testing streams
- Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, and quality assurance frameworks
- Review business and technical requirements and translate them into test scenarios and test cases
- Oversee execution of functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, API, and UAT testing activities
- Monitor defects, ensure proper bug documentation, and support timely resolution
- Collaborate with Backend, Frontend, DevOps, and business teams to ensure quality objectives are achieved
- Establish and improve automation testing practices and quality processes
- Define QA KPIs and monitor team performance against established targets
- Prepare and communicate quality metrics, testing results, and release readiness reports
- Ensure quality standards are met before production deployment and support continuous improvement initiatives
Key Requirements
- Minimum 4 years of experience in software development and quality assurance, including at least 2 years in QA focused roles
- Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC
- Experience leading QA activities across web and mobile application projects
- Hands on experience with Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, API, Integration, UAT, and Security Testing
- Experience creating test plans, test scenarios, and test cases
- Experience managing defects and bug tracking processes
- Experience with Jira or similar test and project management tools
- Experience reviewing automation scripts
- Understanding of CI/CD concepts
- Experience using AI assisted tools for test case generation, log analysis, test coverage review, or QA documentation improvement
- Experience leading and managing QA teams
- Ability to design and implement a comprehensive Test Strategy
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on government, enterprise, or large scale institutional systems
- Experience with .NET based applications and environments
- Experience designing and establishing QA processes from the ground up
- Experience performing Performance Testing
Other Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- Strong leadership and team management skills
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non technical stakeholders
- Strong documentation and reporting skills
- High attention to detail and quality standards
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