QA Automation Engineer at Digital Marketplace

About the OTA Client

Based in Middle East, we help millions of consumers find their homes online, and real estate agents and property developers sell and manage their properties using our web applications, mobile apps and CRM solutions.

Position Summary

Enable our software development quality and productivity improvement initiatives through the use of QA best practices, tools and processes to prevent failures and incidents. This includes implementing and enhancing our testing frameworks and processes across multiple software products and platforms. This is a hands-on role that will involve working closely with engineering and product teams to fully understand product functionality, document test cases and scripts for both manual and automated testing purposes, and ensure we are effectively recording and monitoring testing and quality KPIs to drive continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with QAs, developers, and product managers to ensure that software product requirements, features, and expected functionality are fully understood and accurately documented.

Develop and maintain automated and scalable test scripts and frameworks using Cypress, Jira XRay, and similar tools.

Enhance existing test automation suites and frameworks

Perform manual and automated regression, integration, and functional testing, ensuring related results and defects are recorded

Analyse test results, debug issues, and create detailed reports

Identify QA testing opportunities and challenges to drive continuous improvement, including addressing gaps in test coverage and recommending new automation solutions.

Desired Qualifications and Experience

2 to 4 years experience in following test automation frameworks to perform integration, performance, regression, sanity, smoke, system, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing.

Expert in Javascript/Typescript, Java.

Experience with Cypress, Jira XRay, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Cucumber or similar test solutions, and REST API tools

Excellent English communication and good stakeholder management skills

University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field

Experience with API testing tools like Postman and understanding of RESTful APIs and JSON/XML data formats.

Proficiency in writing and executing SQL queries is essential.

Proficiency in using version control systems like Git for code management

Understanding of Agile development methodologies and experience in working in Agile/Scrum teams.

Good To Have

Good knowledge of software QA processes, strategies, and solutions

Experience implementing and using automated CI/CD and DevOps tools

Performance, security, and accessibility testing experience

Certifications in related fields (eg CSTE, ISTQB) preferred

Experience with similar cloud-based customer web and mobile app products and platforms is an advantage

Knowledge of Datadog, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, or similar tools

Experience with Salesforce CRM and Celigo middleware.