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About the Client:Join one of Egypt’s premier financial institutions, renowned for its extensive suite of banking services, including Institutional Banking, Personal Banking, and Islamic Banking. With a global presence through over 50 branches and correspondents, we serve a diverse and dynamic clientele. As we embark on a groundbreaking digital transformation journey, we are committed to leveraging the latest technologies to establish a state-of-the-art data architecture that will redefine our performance and service delivery.
Role Overview:We are looking for a skilled Senior QA Automation Engineer that will contribute to the quality control chapter and testing activities. He / She will work with the product and engineering teams to understand end-user requirements and use cases and translate them pragmatic and effective test plan.
The role is hybrid (3 times a week in the office).
About the contract:
- The role is a long-term (one-year renewable) contract position
- The payments are paid out in gross amount in USD on a monthly schedule.
- Automate Functional and User testing while meeting quality criteria and project constraints
- Do automation using both GUI and API as provided by the applications
- Have CI/CD hands-on experience for setting up / troubleshooting pipelines related to test automation
- Build testing strategy framework for products
- Choose the most fit technology/platform for automation
- Define test cases for automation using test engineering techniques like defining corner test cases etc.
- Define and execute functional test cases (and test plan, test strategy)
- Explore and try different methods to improve productivity and efficiency of the team
- Influence the direction of the overall architecture especially on quality and testing
- Critical attention to detail about quality, code, troubleshooting, efficiency and design
- Develop and maintain standards of software & system test automation, components, and release management
- Identify and reduce technical debt
- Be able to communicate effectively – verbal and written
- Be able to work alone or with others as needs dictate
- Take ownership of all assigned task and challenges
- Be proactive in promoting ‘Best Practices’
- Be available for out of hours support as required
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment (Agile Way of Working)
- Contribute in people capability building and upskilling with Test Lead / Staff Engineering
- 6-8 years history of total Software Testing experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar ,advanced degree preferred with outstanding record of academic achievement
- Experience writing, utilizing and securing automated testing frameworks, primarily Robot
- Experience in Postman/Newman or Similar API testing tools
- Experience in Database testing
- Strong knowledge of SQL, and Python
- Experience in writing test cases, test plans and execution
- Experience delivering testing strategy framework and standards of practices
- Experience in Agile development methodologies
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline
- Experience in build scripts Maven ,Gradle, CI Jenkins and /or Azure Pipelines
- Experience in database technologies such as MongoDB and SQL basic query experience
- Preferred understanding of Public and Private cloud concepts especially compute, network , Storage and Data
- Fluency in English and/or Arabic
