Test Automation Engineer

Description

Summary: A Test Automation Engineer designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites and frameworks to ensure software quality, accelerate releases, and reduce manual testing effort. Highlights: 1. Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites and frameworks 2. Drives quality early in the lifecycle through collaboration 3. Promotes automation best practices and CI pipeline improvements **Test Automation Engineer — Job Description** Overview A Test Automation Engineer designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites and frameworks to ensure software quality, accelerate releases, and reduce manual testing effort. **Key Responsibilities** * Test automation strategy: define automation scope, select frameworks/tools, and plan test coverage (unit, integration, API, E2E, UI). * Framework \& tool development: design and maintain robust, reusable test frameworks, libraries, and helpers. * Test implementation: write automated tests (unit, integration, API, UI) and maintain test data, mocks, and fixtures. * CI/CD integration: integrate tests into pipelines to run on pull requests, builds, and scheduled jobs; manage test environments. * Test maintenance \& reliability: triage flaky tests, stabilize suites, and improve test execution speed and determinism. * Test design \& quality: define test cases from requirements/acceptance criteria, create test plans, and ensure traceability. * Performance \& non\-functional testing: implement load, stress, security, and reliability tests where applicable. * Collaboration: work closely with developers, QA, SREs, and product managers to drive quality early in the lifecycle. * Metrics \& reporting: track test coverage, pass rates, flakiness, and test runtime; report quality KPIs. * Test data \& environment management: provision test fixtures, sandbox data, and manage test infrastructure (containers, VMs). * Automation best practices: promote TDD/BDD patterns, code review of test code, and CI pipeline improvements. * Documentation: maintain test plans, framework docs, runbooks, and onboarding materials. **Required Qualifications** * Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. * Experience: 3\+ years in test automation, QA engineering, or software development with automation focus. * Technical skills: * Proficient in at least one programming language used for tests (Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C\#, Ruby, Go). * Experience with test frameworks (pytest, JUnit/TestNG, Mocha/Jest, NUnit) and UI automation tools (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress). * API testing tools and frameworks (Postman, REST\-assured, HTTP client libraries). * CI/CD integration experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins). * Familiarity with mocking, stubbing, contract testing, and test doubles. * Knowledge of containerization and orchestration for test environments (Docker, Kubernetes) is helpful. * Experience with test reporting and observability tools (Allure, TestRail, JUnit XML, Grafana). * Familiarity with performance/security testing tools (JMeter, k6, OWASP ZAP) is a plus. * Soft skills: attention to detail, communication, ability to prioritize, and collaborative mindset. **Nice\-to\-Have** * Experience implementing shift\-left testing, TDD/BDD, and pair\-programming with developers. * Familiarity with cloud testing platforms and device farms for cross\-browser/mobile testing. * Scripting for test data generation and SQL/NoSQL knowledge for data validation. * Experience with test case management tools and quality metrics dashboards. Pay: QAR12,753\.30 \- QAR18,743\.94 per month Work Location: In person