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QA Automation Engineer - 60627930777

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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Overview

Senior QA Automation Engineer (Fintech / AI-Native Platform)

Compensation

Competitive and based on experience/location

About The Company

  • We are building next-generation financial infrastructure at the intersection of fintech, stablecoin-powered payments, and AI-driven software development.
  • Our platform combines the reliability and security expectations of modern banking systems with the speed, flexibility, and intelligence of emerging technologies.
  • Our engineering culture is deeply technical, highly collaborative, and AI-native.
  • We leverage modern development tooling, automation, and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate how we build, test, and ship products at scale.
  • This is an opportunity to join a senior engineering organization solving complex challenges across:
  • digital wallets and payment infrastructure
  • real-time financial systems
  • event-driven architectures
  • mobile applications
  • blockchain/stablecoin transaction flows
  • AI-powered product experiences
  • We are looking for someone who is excited not only about automation testing, but about redefining what quality engineering looks like in an AI-accelerated future.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead and scale automated quality assurance across our mobile applications, backend services, APIs, event-driven infrastructure, and real-time systems.

This is a highly technical role best suited for someone with strong automation architecture experience who can operate independently within a fast-paced engineering environment.

You will work closely with backend, frontend, DevOps, and product engineering teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and correctness of critical financial systems.

The ideal candidate has experience testing complex distributed systems, modern TypeScript-based applications, and fintech/payment workflows while embracing AI-assisted engineering practices.

Automation & Test Infrastructure

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks across mobile, backend, and API systems
  • Develop robust automated test suites using TypeScript, Jest, PactumJS, and related tooling
  • Build and maintain end-to-end mobile automation using Maestro (preferred) or Detox
  • Implement API, integration, regression, and contract testing across REST, GraphQL, SSE streaming, and WebSocket-based systems
  • Establish automated validation pipelines for critical transaction and payment workflows

Backend & Infrastructure Testing

  • Test serverless AWS architectures including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis, EventBridge, Cognito, and related services
  • Validate event-driven systems, asynchronous workflows, and distributed infrastructure behaviors
  • Build strategies for testing reliability, fault tolerance, retries, idempotency, and edge-case handling in financial systems
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to improve observability, testability, and release quality

Fintech & Real-Time Systems

  • Ensure accuracy and reliability of payment flows, wallet functionality, transaction histories, and ledger-related systems
  • Test real-time systems including streaming updates, messaging/chat systems, notifications, presence, and live state synchronization
  • Help establish quality standards appropriate for financial-grade infrastructure and high-trust applications

Ai-Assisted Engineering

  • Utilize AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, MCP integrations, and AI-assisted IDE workflows to accelerate testing and debugging
  • Explore AI-generated test coverage, regression detection, and automation optimization opportunities
  • Contribute to an engineering culture where AI is embedded into day-to-day development and QA workflows

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner closely with engineering and product teams to define quality standards and release criteria
  • Participate in architecture and planning discussions with a quality-first mindset
  • Help shape long-term QA automation strategy and engineering best practices

Required Experience

  • 7+ years of QA engineering experience with a strong focus on automation
  • Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript-based testing environments
  • Strong hands-on experience with:
  • + Jest
  • + PactumJS or similar API testing frameworks
  • + API contract testing
  • + end-to-end automation frameworks
  • Experience testing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or serverless platforms
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment validation
  • Experience testing mobile applications and backend services simultaneously
  • Strong English communication skills with the ability to operate in senior engineering environments

Preferred Experience

  • Experience with Maestro mobile testing framework
  • Experience with Detox or comparable mobile E2E frameworks
  • Background in fintech, neobanking, digital wallets, payment infrastructure, or transaction-heavy systems
  • Exposure to blockchain transactions, stablecoins, crypto infrastructure, or Web3 ecosystems
  • Familiarity with AWS serverless architectures and real-time systems
  • Experience operating within startup or high-growth product environments

Ideal Candidate Traits

  • Strong systems-thinking mindset
  • High ownership and accountability
  • Comfortable operating with autonomy
  • Passionate about automation and engineering quality
  • Excited by AI-assisted software development workflows
  • Thrives in fast-moving, highly technical teams

Frontend

  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Tamagui
  • Zustand
  • TanStack Query

Backend & Infrastructure

  • AWS Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • DynamoDB
  • Kinesis
  • EventBridge
  • Cognito

Qa & Tooling

  • Jest
  • PactumJS

• Maestro And Detox

  • Sentry
  • Better Stack
  • RudderStack
  • Amplitude

Ai Tooling

  • Claude
  • Cursor
  • MCP integrations
  • AI-assisted development workflows

Why Join Us

  • Help define QA automation for a modern fintech platform
  • Work on challenging, large-scale engineering problems
  • Operate inside a highly technical, senior engineering culture
  • Shape the future of AI-assisted software quality practices
  • Own meaningful systems and infrastructure from day one
  • Join a fast-moving team building at the frontier of fintech and AI
  • Remote-first culture with strong engineering autonomy

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