Software Quality Assurance Expert - Riyadh - Onsite

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Own the QA Master Plan define the testing framework, test types, entry and exit criteria for all releases
• Execute functional, regression, performance, and security testing on every development wave before
• production deployment
• Act as the Go/No-Go gatekeeper for all production releases sign off or block based on objective test
• evidence; document the decision formally
• Validate SLA compliance through load and performance testing confirm the system can meet Critical
• (15min/2hr), High (30min/4hr), Medium (1hr/8hr), and Low (2hr/24hr) SLA tiers under realistic user loads
• Lead UAT coordination with client end users write UAT test scenarios in Arabic, facilitate UAT sessions,
• document acceptance decisions
• Configure and maintain quality gates within the DevOps pipeline automated tests must pass before any
• code proceeds to UAT
• Track all defects from discovery to verified closure using the agreed defect tracking tool
• Produce formal QA reports and test evidence documents in Arabic for every release

Minimum Qualifications

• Fluent Arabic Speaker is a Must.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• 7+ years of professional QA and software testing experience
• Experience across functional, performance, and security testing not just one type
• Experience working in Agile/DevOps environments with CI/CD quality gates
• Experience coordinating UAT with non-technical business users government sector preferred

Required Technical Skills

• Functional test design equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision table testing,
• exploratory testing
• Performance and load testing JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent; ability to design realistic load scenarios for
• web applications and interpret results
• Security testing OWASP Top 10 validation methodology; DAST tools (OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite at functional
• level); SAST tool output interpretation; NCA cybersecurity baseline control validation
• API testing Postman or SoapUI; REST API functional and regression testing
• Regression testing design and maintenance of regression suites for .NET web applications across multiple release cycles
• Defect tracking Azure DevOps Boards, Jira, or equivalent; defect lifecycle management, severity/priority
• classification, metrics reporting
• DevOps pipeline quality gates configuring automated test steps that block the pipeline on failures (Azure DevOps or equivalent)
• SLA and performance benchmarking defining non-functional requirements as measurable test criteria;
• validating response and resolution time targets
• Test automation Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress for Angular-based front-end regression (strongly
• beneficial; not mandatory at hire)
• Mobile app testing functional and compatibility testing on Android and iOS (beneficial — for
• correspondence system mobile app)
• Arabic document production test plans, test cases, defect reports, UAT scripts, and QA release reports all
• in formal Arabic

Key Soft Skills

• Independent and assertive quality is not negotiable; must be willing to block a release against delivery
• pressure, with clear documented evidence
• Meticulous documentation test cases, execution results, defect histories, and acceptance decisions must
• be fully auditable for client review
• Proactive risk communication flags quality risks and test debt to the Technical Lead before they become
• release-day problems
• Strong collaboration with developers during defect resolution constructive, evidence-based, not
• adversarial
• User empathy in UAT design test scenarios must reflect how real correspondence and archiving users
• actually work, not just technical test cases