Job opportunity
RemoteFulltime
Senior Software QA Automation Engineer - API, UI, Performance & CI/CD
SSC HR SolutionsCairoPosted 30+ days ago
Role overview
Role details
Key
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable
test automation frameworks
- from the ground up.
- - Develop automated tests across: -
API
– REST Assured, Karate, pytest, or equivalent. -
UI
– Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent. -
Database/Data
- – SQL-based validation of data quality and integrity.
- - Build reusable automation architecture, libraries, utilities, fixtures, and reporting.
- - Validate data for: - Completeness - Correctness - Consistency - Duplicates - Data integrity across systems -
- Develop and execute
performance and load tests
- using tools such as JMeter, k6, or Gatling.
- - Integrate automated tests into
CI/CD pipelines
- and ensure critical failures can prevent defective releases.
- - Investigate automation failures, identify root causes, and work with developers to resolve defects.
- - Define and maintain appropriate test coverage across APIs, UI, backend services, and data pipelines.
- - Contribute to overall
test strategy and quality engineering practices
- across multiple teams.
- - Continuously improve automation reliability, execution speed, maintainability, and coverage.
- - Mentor other QA engineers and promote engineering best practices within the QA team.
Required Skills
- &
- Experience -
5+ years of professional QA/testing experience
- , with strong focus on automation.
- - Proven experience
building or significantly rebuilding automation frameworks
- , rather than only writing tests within an existing framework.
- - Strong programming skills in at least one of: -
Python
-
Java
-
TypeScript
- -
- Strong hands-on experience with API automation using technologies such as: - REST Assured - Karate - pytest - or equivalent frameworks -
- Strong experience with UI automation using: - Playwright - Cypress - Selenium - or equivalent tools -
- Strong
SQL
- skills for automated data validation and database testing.
- - Practical experience with
performance/load testing
- , using JMeter, k6, Gatling, or similar.
- - Experience integrating automated tests into
CI/CD pipelines
- .
- - Strong understanding of test automation architecture, design patterns, maintainability, and scalability.
- - Experience working in Agile/Scrum software development environments.
- - Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Nice to Have -
- Experience testing
streaming or event-driven data pipelines
- .
- - Exposure to
security testing or penetration testing
- .
- - Experience owning or contributing to
test strategy across multiple engineering teams
- .
- - Experience with cloud environments and modern DevOps tooling.
- - Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and distributed systems.
- - Experience testing data-intensive or high-throughput platforms. What We're Looking For The ideal candidate is someone who: - Thinks like a
software engineer
- , not only a traditional tester.
- - Has personally built automation frameworks and understands the architecture behind them.
- - Can write clean, maintainable production-quality code.
- - Is comfortable testing across
API, UI, database, data, and performance layers
- .
- - Understands that automation should provide reliable feedback in the
CI/CD pipeline
- .
- - Can investigate failures rather than simply report them.
- - Takes ownership of quality and can work across multiple engineering teams. Important This role is
automation-first
. Candidates whose experience is primarily manual testing, test-case execution, or writing tests inside an existing framework without significant framework-development experience are unlikely to be a strong fit.
Skills
PythonJavaTypeScriptpytestPlaywrightCypressSeleniumSQLPenetration TestingDockerKubernetesDevOps
Details
Workplace
Remote
Source
Workable
Date posted
Sep 17, 2026
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