Description
Job description / Role
Job Type
Full Time
Job Location
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Nationality
Any Nationality
Salary
Not Specified
Gender
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Arabic Fluency
Not Specified
Job Function
IT - Software & Web Development
Company Industry
Software & Internet Services
Description
The senior test automation engineer will play a critical role in enhancing test automation solutions for the client’s applications and platforms including the SupTech program, payments & reporting platforms and related technology stacks within a modern DevSecOps delivery pipeline.
This role encompasses analyzing technical and functional designs, defining test strategies, designing and implementing automated test frameworks and test cases (UI, API, mobile app, integrations, performance testing), and ensuring high quality, reliability, and security of software deliveries. The senior test automation engineer will drive continuous improvement in test automation practices and tooling to meet client’s quality objectives, collaborating with relevant stakeholders to optimize test coverage, execution efficiency, and compliance with industry standards and internal policies.
Additionally, the engineer will be responsible for integrating existing CI/CD pipelines with test automation scripts to establish a full CI/CD/CT (continuous testing) pipeline and utilizing mobile app testing tools such as Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, and Detox.
The role also involves promoting modern software quality engineering practices, fostering innovation in automation, ensuring code and test quality, promoting collaboration through agile practices, providing effective support and resolution for quality-related issues, and aligning testing and automation decisions with the overall objectives of the client.
Key responsibilities
Core responsibilities
Enhance and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable test automation solutions for client’s applications stack. The role ensures that automated testing frameworks and suites are aligned with modern technology stacks and continuously support evolving business and regulatory needs. It involves setting the overall test automation strategy and technical vision, defining quality and testability standards, and ensuring adherence to best practices in software testing, evaluating test automation and performance testing tools and their frameworks, quality engineering patterns, and adopting agile testing practices and principles across the environment.
Test automation strategy, design and implementation
Design, develop, maintain, and enhance the test automation strategy for key applications and platforms (including SupTech (supervision technology for banking supervision), payments & reporting, and other critical systems).
Analyze business, functional, and technical requirements to design effective automated test scenarios and suites.
Design, build, and maintain modular, reusable, and scalable test automation frameworks (UI, API, mobile, integration, performance, and regression).
Ensure test automation solutions are aligned with architectural standards, security guidelines, JIRA and DevSecOps/CI-CD practices.
Integrate existing CI/CD pipeline with test automation scripts to establish a full CI/CD/CT (continuous testing) pipeline, ensuring continuous validation throughout the development lifecycle.
Test development, execution and maintenance
Develop, review, and optimize automated test scripts using approved tools and languages.
Integrate automated tests into JIRA (Xray test case management) for comprehensive test case lifecycle management, including requirements traceability, execution tracking, and reporting.
Maintain and refactor existing test suites to improve stability, reliability, coverage, and execution speed; monitor and analyze test execution results, identify flakiness or instability, and implement corrective actions.
Ensure timely execution of automated suites in line with release schedules and quality KPIs.
Implement mobile device farm integration with Tosca (using tools like Perfecto, BrowserStack, or Sauce Labs) to execute automated mobile test cases on both physical devices and emulators/simulators.
Quality engineering, standards and governance
Adhere to test automation coding standards, best practices, and design patterns, modern quality engineering approaches (e.g., test-driven, behaviour-driven, shift-left testing).
Contribute to maintaining test data and environment management, test configuration standards.
Support the establishment and tracking of quality metrics (e.g., test coverage, defect leakage, automation coverage, and execution duration).
Ensure testing practices are compliant with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
Collaboration, stakeholder engagement and support
Collaborate closely with business analysts, developers, solution architects, PMO, and operations teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the lifecycle.
Liaise between business users and technical teams to clarify requirements, acceptance criteria, test coverage, support for test automation and quality-related issues, including troubleshooting test failures, environment issues, and tool integration challenges.
Participate actively in agile ceremonies (planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives) to represent quality and test automation perspectives.
Tooling, innovation and continuous improvement
Evaluate, recommend, and implement test automation, performance testing, and quality engineering tools and frameworks that align with the client’s technology stack.
Explore and adopt innovative approaches such as AI-assisted testing, model-based testing, and test impact analysis where relevant.
Continuously optimize test suites (e.g., prioritization, parallelization, environment usage) to reduce cycle time and improve feedback speed.
Identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance test coverage, and increase automation maturity across teams.
Utilize mobile app testing tools such as Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, and Detox for mobile automation and implement CI/CD/CT pipeline orchestration to enable continuous testing with automated smoke, regression, integration, and performance tests.
Documentation and knowledge management
Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for test automation frameworks, standards, test suites, and execution processes.
Document and share lessons learned, best practices, and guidelines for effective automation of quality.
Perform any other duties outside the scope as and when required.
Self-management responsibilities
Professional development: identify and pursue training opportunities to enhance skills and competencies.
Competency mastery: strive for excellence across all required competencies for the role.
Industry awareness: stay informed about emerging trends, techniques, and advancements in the field to ensure continued relevance and capability.
Requirements
Threshold qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in software engineering (IT).
Professional certifications in software testing automation.
Extensive expertise in NeoLoad performance testing tool, Tosca automation tool would be an added advantage.
ISTQB, Cypress/Appium certifications, mobile performance testing tools (NeoLoad, JMeter Mobile, LoadRunner Mobile).
Agile/Scrum, CI/CD/CT pipeline integration.
Xray certified practitioner (JIRA Xray test case management) - preferred.
Experience
Minimum of 6+ years of hands-on experience in software testing with a strong focus on performance, load and endurance testing.
Proven track record in designing, implementing, and maintaining automation frameworks and suites for enterprise-level applications.
Technical skills
Performance testing on web applications, SOAP API testing, mobile testing, SQL, JIRA.
Proficiency in NeoLoad, JMeter Mobile, LoadRunner Mobile, BlazeMeter Mobile, REST/SOAP, Postman.
Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java.
Experience in databases, monitoring tools (JIRA, AppDynamics, Datadog).
Automation of mobile performance test cases using device farm integration with NeoLoad (such as Perfecto, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs) to execute on both physical devices and emulators/simulators.
CI/CD/CT pipeline experience: integrating performance test automation scripts within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps) to establish continuous performance testing workflows.
Roles and responsibilities
NFR requirement gathering, performance testing tool installation and setup.
Creating test plans, workload design, test execution.
Result analysis, report generation, document test results and statistics.
Tracking test results and performance metrics in JIRA (Xray test case management solution), ability to track defects and correlate performance issues with test cases.
Preferred certifications
NeoLoad professional certification by Tricentis Academy.
JMeter pro certification by BlazeMeter University.
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