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Senior QA Engineer (Automation + AI / ML)

Socium - Teams Done Differently
Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Mid-Senior
3 months ago
CI/CDGitMicroservicesScala
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General Description

Join a fast-growing, technology-driven organization delivering advanced digital platforms and AI-enabled solutions at scale.

We are looking for a

Senior QA Engineer with strong automation expertise and exposure to AI/ML systems

to help ensure high quality, reliability, and performance across modern enterprise applications.

This role is ideal for a

hands-on, senior-level QA engineer who can independently design and implement automation frameworks, validate complex system behaviors, and support quality assurance for AI-driven features and intelligent platforms.

You will work closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to build scalable automation strategies and ensure high-confidence releases across APIs, applications, and AI-powered components.

This is a

freelance / contract, hybrid role with an urgent hiring timeline

, supporting engineering teams building high-impact digital and AI-enabled solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable
  • test automation frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing
  • .
  • Implement automated regression suites integrated with
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • to ensure fast and reliable releases.
  • Validate complex workflows, distributed systems, and
  • microservices-based architectures
  • .
  • Collaborate with developers and product teams to
  • define test strategies, acceptance criteria, and quality standards
  • early in the development lifecycle.
  • Identify test coverage gaps and improve automation coverage across critical system components.
  • Support testing of
  • AI/ML-powered features
  • , including validation of model outputs, response accuracy, and system behavior.
  • Develop strategies for
  • test data management, environment stability, and automated test execution
  • .
  • Perform root cause analysis of defects and work closely with engineering teams to improve system reliability.
  • Contribute to
  • quality metrics, reporting, and release readiness
  • .
  • Drive
  • automation-first testing practices
  • and mentor team members where needed.

Required Skills & Experience

At least

7–10+ years of experience in software quality assurance

, with strong focus on

test automation

.

Proven experience designing and implementing

automation frameworks from scratch

.

Strong hands-on experience with automation tools such as:

• Selenium And Cypress And Playwright

  • REST API automation tools (Postman, RestAssured, or similar)
  • Strong programming or scripting experience in

Python, Java, or JavaScript

.

Experience Testing

API-driven architectures and microservices environments

.

Solid understanding of

CI/CD pipelines and automated testing integration

.

Experience Validating

complex test scenarios and enterprise-scale systems

.

Exposure to

AI/ML systems or AI-enabled applications

, including testing model outputs, prompts, or intelligent system behaviors.

Strong debugging, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to work

independently in a contract environment

with minimal supervision.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical teams.

Preferred And Nice To Have

  • Experience testing
  • AI-powered applications, LLM-based systems, or data-driven platforms
  • .
  • Familiarity with
  • performance testing tools (JMeter, k6, or similar)
  • .
  • Experience working in
  • cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • .
  • Background in
  • DevOps practices and containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • .
  • Experience working in
  • enterprise or high-scale distributed systems
  • .

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