We are seeking a Senior Automation \& Quality Engineer to own and scale our automation and quality practices across web applications, APIs, and cloud-native workloads. This role is hands-on and production-focused—responsible for building reliable automated testing, performance/load testing, and quality gates integrated into GitLab CI/CD. You will work closely with developers and platform teams to improve release confidence, reduce regressions, and ensure performance readiness.
This role requires proven hands-on capability in automation and performance testing at scale. If you do not have practical experience with Playwright/Selenium, JMeter, GitLab pipelines, and Java/Python automation, you are not the one.
Key Responsibilities
1) Test Automation (UI, API, Integration)
- Design and maintain end-to-end (E2E) automation using Playwright and Selenium across critical user journeys.
- Develop maintainable automation frameworks and reusable test components in Java and Python.
- Implement robust test strategies: smoke tests, regression suites, integration tests, and API tests aligned with release workflows.
- Ensure stable execution in CI environments with proper test data handling, environment readiness checks, and reporting.
2) Performance \& Load Testing
- Build and execute performance/load test plans using JMeter and k8s-based load testing approaches (distributed execution when needed).
- Define performance baselines and SLAs (response time, throughput, error rate) and validate against real-world scenarios.
- Analyze bottlenecks and provide actionable recommendations (application, database, infrastructure, or platform-related).
3) CI/CD Quality Gates (GitLab)
- Integrate automation suites into GitLab pipelines as enforceable quality gates (merge request validations, pre-release gates, scheduled regression).
- Implement pipeline best practices: parallelization, caching, artifact handling, test retries logic, and reliable reporting.
- Enforce standards for code quality and test readiness, ensuring “done” includes automation coverage and measurable quality signals.
4) Unit Testing \& Developer Enablement
- Define and enforce unit test expectations with developers (coverage targets, critical module focus, fast feedback cycles).
- Support teams in improving testability and writing reliable unit tests (especially for high-risk components).
- Promote consistent test patterns and shift-left quality practices.
5) Workflow Automation (n8n)
- Build workflow automations using n8n to streamline quality operations (e.g., triggering tests, notifications, approvals, reporting dashboards).
- Automate repeatable QA processes to reduce manual effort and increase consistency.
6) Reporting, Documentation \& Quality Governance
- Produce clear quality dashboards and reports: pass/fail trends, flakiness tracking, performance trends, release readiness indicators.
- Document test strategies, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
- Participate in incident reviews/RCA and introduce preventive quality controls.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in QA Automation / SDET / Quality Engineering (senior level, hands-on).
- Strong hands-on expertise with:
- Playwright and/or Selenium for E2E automation
- JMeter for performance and load testing
- GitLab CI/CD integration and pipeline-driven quality gates
- Automation development in Java and Python
- Unit test practices and supporting engineering teams with testing standards
- Experience running tests in containerized/cloud-native environments and handling CI reliability challenges (test stability, environment readiness, reporting).
Strong Advantages (Nice to Have)
- Distributed load testing in Kubernetes (k8s execution patterns, scalability, reliability).
- Test reporting frameworks and dashboards (trend analysis, flakiness reduction).
- HRDF-Restricted-Internal
- API mocking/service virtualization strategies for reliable automated testing.
- Experience with release governance and quality sign-off frameworks.
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Social Insurance
- Iqama Issuing
- Air tickets
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