Senior Automation & Quality Engineer- Project KSA

We are seeking a Senior Automation & Quality Engineer to own and scale our automation and quality practices across web applications, APIs, and cloud-native workloads. This role is hands‑on and production‑focused—responsible for building reliable automated testing, performance/load testing, and quality gates integrated into Git Lab CI/CD. You will work closely with developers and platform teams to improve release confidence, reduce regressions, and ensure performance readiness.

This role requires proven hands‑on capability in automation and performance testing  you do not have practical experience with Playwright/Selenium, JMeter, Git Lab pipelines, and Java/Python automation, you are not the one.

1) Test Automation (UI, API, Integration)

• Design and maintain end‑to‑end (E2E) automation using Playwright and Selenium across critical user journeys.
• Develop maintainable automation frameworks and reusable test components in Java and Python.
• Implement robust test strategies: smoke tests, regression suites, integration tests, and API tests aligned with release workflows.
• Ensure stable execution in CI environments with proper test data handling, environment readiness checks, and reporting.

2) Performance & Load Testing

• Build and execute performance/load test plans using JMeter and k8s‑based load testing approaches (distributed execution when needed).
• Define performance baselines and SLAs (response time, throughput, error rate) and validate against real‑world scenarios.
• Analyze bottlenecks and provide actionable recommendations (application, database, infrastructure, or platform‑related).

3) CI/CD Quality Gates (Git Lab)

• Integrate automation suites into Git Lab pipelines as enforceable quality gates (merge request validations, pre‑release gates, scheduled regression).
• Implement pipeline best practices: parallelization, caching, artifact handling, test retries logic, and reliable reporting.
• Enforce standards for code quality and test readiness, ensuring “done” includes automation coverage and measurable quality signals.

4) Unit Testing & Developer Enablement

• Define and enforce unit test expectations with developers (coverage targets, critical module focus, fast feedback cycles).
• Support teams in improving testability and writing reliable unit tests (especially for high‑risk components).
• Promote consistent test patterns and shift‑left quality practices.

5) Workflow Automation (n8n)

• Build workflow automations using n8n to streamline quality operations (e.g., triggering tests, notifications, approvals, reporting dashboards).
• Automate repeatable QA processes to reduce manual effort and increase consistency.

6) Reporting, Documentation & Quality Governance

• Produce clear quality dashboards and reports: pass/fail trends, flakiness tracking, performance trends, release readiness indicators.
• Document test strategies, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in incident reviews/RCA and introduce preventive quality controls.

• 5+ years of experience in QA Automation / SDET / Quality Engineering (senior level, hands‑on).
• Strong hands‑on expertise with:

• Experience running tests in containerized/cloud‑native environments and handling CI reliability challenges (test stability, environment readiness, reporting).

• Distributed load testing in Kubernetes (k8s execution patterns, scalability, reliability).
• Test reporting frameworks and dashboards (trend analysis, flakiness reduction).
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• API mocking/service virtualization strategies for reliable automated testing.
• Experience with release governance and quality sign‑off frameworks.

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