QA Automation Engineer – API & Performance Testing

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Qatar.

📋 Description

• Design and implement scalable test automation frameworks that encompass API, integration, contract, regression, and architectural testing.

• Develop and execute strategies for API testing to ensure functionality, integrations, data integrity, reliability, and system contracts.

• Construct and sustain automated quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.

• Identify and prevent improper or non-compliant modifications from reaching production environments.

• Validate API and data contracts, ensure backward compatibility, manage schema evolution, and uphold architectural invariants across distributed systems.

• Utilize property-based testing and mutation testing to assess test effectiveness, recognize gaps, and enhance test coverage.

• Design and conduct performance and scalability testing.

• Identify bottlenecks and potential reliability challenges.

• Collaborate effectively with software engineers, architects, DevOps, and data engineering teams.

• Analyze automation failures and investigate root causes.

• Enhance the reliability, maintainability, and scalability of the testing ecosystem.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in software engineering, QA automation, data engineering, or software quality engineering.

• Extensive hands-on experience in designing test architectures and automation frameworks for complex or distributed systems.

• Expert-level knowledge in API testing along with significant experience in API development and integration.

• Demonstrated experience in integrating automated testing and validation into CI/CD pipelines, including the implementation of automated quality gates.

• Practical experience with property-based testing and mutation testing.

• Understanding of how property-based testing and mutation testing can enhance test effectiveness.

• Experience in validating API/data contracts, ensuring backward compatibility, managing schema evolution, and maintaining architectural invariants.

• Hands-on experience with performance testing, scalability validation, and identifying application or system bottlenecks.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration abilities.

• Capability to work effectively across engineering, architecture, QA, and DevOps teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the option to work remotely.

• A dynamic and non-hierarchical work culture.

• Empowerment to take ownership of projects.

• Open collaboration environment.

• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact.