Software Engineer - Quality Assurance (m/f/d)
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Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test strategies, plans, and cases for digital banking applications, APIs, microservices, and web and mobile channels.
- Perform functional, integration, system, regression, API, UAT, and end-to-end testing across banking platforms.
- Develop and maintain automated test suites to improve coverage and release quality.
- Validate REST APIs, microservices, event-driven integrations, and backend services.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, and DevOps teams throughout the SDLC.
- Participate in requirement reviews, sprint planning, defect triage, and release readiness assessments.
- Execute test automation within CI/CD pipelines and support shift-left quality practices.
- Ensure compliance with banking security, audit, performance, and regulatory requirements.
- Track, report, and manage defects through resolution while ensuring quality gates are met.
Required Skills
- Strong experience in manual testing, API testing, integration testing, and automation testing.
- Hands-on experience with Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, SoapUI, and API validation tools.
- Experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, REST Assured, or Karate.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, XML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and microservices architecture.
- Experience with SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and database validation techniques.
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD methodologies.
- Familiarity with GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and SonarQube quality processes.
- Proficiency in BDD/SDD practices using Gherkin and Cucumber.
Required Experience and Knowledge
- 5+ years of QA experience, including at least 3 years testing enterprise applications and APIs.
- Experience in banking, financial services, corporate banking, digital banking, payments, lending, or FinTech domains.
- Strong understanding of API-driven architectures and microservices ecosystems.
- Experience testing customer-facing applications with high availability and security requirements.
- Understanding of software quality assurance methodologies, defect management, and test automation best practices.
- Experience working in regulated and compliance-driven environments.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Performance testing using JMeter, LoadRunner, or NeoLoad is advantageous.
- Security testing involving OWASP, API Security, and vulnerability assessment is advantageous.
- Experience testing cloud-native applications deployed on Azure or AWS is advantageous.
- Mobile application testing experience for Android and iOS platforms is advantageous.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Event Hub, or messaging platforms is advantageous.
- Exposure to AI-assisted testing, test data management, and synthetic monitoring is advantageous.
Key Deliverables
- Produce comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test execution reports.
- Deliver automated functional and API test suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Provide API validation and quality assurance for banking services and integrations.
- Track defects, perform root cause analysis, and report quality metrics.
- Support successful SIT, UAT, regression, and production-readiness sign-offs.
- Prepare test evidence, compliance documentation, and audit-ready quality artefacts.
- Deliver applications meeting agreed functional and non-functional requirements.
Certifications
- AWS Certified, PMP, CISSP, Azure, and ITIL credentials are listed under certifications required.
- Certified Agile Tester, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900, and Certified Scrum Professional or another Agile certification are listed as preferred.
Role Location
- The role is listed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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