Expert Quality Engineer

Job Description

Requirements

• QUALIFICATIONS:
• - Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master’s preferred.
• - 5+ years in quality engineering, including ownership of test strategy and automation frameworks.
• - Proven experience running external certification with payment schemes or a financial regulator.
• - Strong automation background (Selenium, Playwright, Appium, REST Assured, or similar) plus performance testing.
• - Payments domain knowledge, including ISO 8583/20022, EMV, and settlement/reconciliation flows
• - Professional Certificates.

Responsibilities

• Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• - Act as senior quality engineering authority across squads and platforms.
• - Define comprehensive test strategies for complex applications, platforms, and integrations.
• - Establish quality engineering standards, methodologies, and testing practices.
• - Design and own automated testing frameworks and reusable testing solutions across web, mobile, and APIs.
• - Drive certification and compliance testing with SAMA, payment schemes (mada, Visa, Mastercard), and other external entities.
• - Own preparation and submission of test evidence, certification artifacts, and audit documentation for regulators and scheme bodies.
• - Manage external certification cycles, including scheduling, defect turnaround, and re-submission.
• - Lead quality validation for complex and business-critical releases.
• - Define approaches for functional, integration, regression, performance, security, and reliability testing.
• - Review requirements and solution designs to identify quality risks early.
• - Analyze quality trends and recurring defects to drive systemic improvements.
• - Drive improvements in automation coverage and continuous testing in CI/CD.
• - Assess release quality and escalate critical risks prior to production deployment.
• - Mentor quality engineers and raise testing capability across the chapter.
• - Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and compliance teams to embed quality across the lifecycle.

Skills Required