Job Description – QA Engineer (Manual & Automation Testing)

About the Role

We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive QA Engineer who has strong experience in both manual and automated software testing . The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, performance, and usability of enterprise web and mobile applications.

You will work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, UI/UX Designers, Developers, DevOps Engineers, and Project Managers throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Manual Testing

• Analyze business requirements, user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Create comprehensive test plans, test cases, checklists, and test scenarios.
• Perform:
• Functional Testing
• Regression Testing
• Smoke Testing
• Sanity Testing
• Integration Testing
• End-to-End Testing
• System Testing
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support
• Cross-browser testing
• Mobile application testing
• Execute exploratory testing to identify hidden defects.
• Validate UI against Figma designs and UX specifications.
• Verify multilingual applications (English/Arabic preferred).
• Perform API validation using Postman or similar tools.

Automation Testing

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts.
• Build scalable automation frameworks for web and API testing.
• Automate regression and smoke test suites.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyze automation failures and maintain test reliability.
• Continuously improve automation coverage.

Defect Management

• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects.
• Reproduce issues consistently and provide detailed bug reports.
• Work closely with developers to validate fixes.
• Verify production hotfixes and release candidates.

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Quality Engineering

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Review requirements for completeness and testability.
• Estimate QA effort during sprint planning.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects.
• Maintain quality metrics and release reports.

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Documentation

• Prepare:
• Test Plans
• Test Cases
• Test Scripts
• Test Data
• Test Summary Reports
• Release Validation Reports
• Maintain QA documentation and knowledge base.

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Required Skills

Manual Testing

• Strong understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Test case design techniques
• Defect lifecycle management
• Risk-based testing
• Regression strategy

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Automation

Experience with one or more:

• Playwright
• Selenium WebDriver
• Cypress
• Appium
• Robot Framework

Programming knowledge in at least one:

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Java
• Python
• C#

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API Testing

• Postman
• REST APIs
• Swagger/OpenAPI
• JSON
• API automation

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Performance Testing (Preferred)

Experience with:

• JMeter
• k6
• LoadRunner (optional)

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Test Management Tools

Experience using:

• Azure DevOps
• Jira
• TestRail
• Zephyr
• Xray

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CI/CD

Knowledge of:

• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• Git

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Database Skills

Working knowledge of:

• SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL

Ability to write SQL queries for data validation.

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Code Quality & Static Analysis

• Experience working with SonarQube to monitor code quality, security vulnerabilities, code smells, bugs, and techni