Expert Quality Engineer

About the Role

TawanTech is seeking an Expert Quality Engineer to join its team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This full-time role involves providing advanced quality engineering expertise, defining testing strategies, and driving automation and quality standards to ensure complex technology solutions meet required levels of reliability, performance, security, and functionality.

Role Purpose

The primary purpose of this position is to act as a senior quality engineering authority across various squads and platforms. The Expert Quality Engineer will be responsible for establishing and maintaining high-quality standards and practices throughout the development lifecycle, ensuring compliance and robust system performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a senior quality engineering authority across squads and platforms.
• Define comprehensive test strategies for complex applications, platforms, and integrations.
• Establish quality engineering standards, methodologies, and testing practices.
• Design and own automated testing frameworks and reusable testing solutions across web, mobile, and APIs.
• Drive certification and compliance testing with SAMA, payment schemes (mada, Visa, Mastercard), and other external entities.
• Own preparation and submission of test evidence, certification artifacts, and audit documentation for regulators and scheme bodies.
• Manage external certification cycles, including scheduling, defect turnaround, and re-submission.
• Lead quality validation for complex and business-critical releases.
• Define approaches for functional, integration, regression, performance, security, and reliability testing.
• Review requirements and solution designs to identify quality risks early.
• Analyze quality trends and recurring defects to drive systemic improvements.
• Drive improvements in automation coverage and continuous testing in CI/CD.
• Assess release quality and escalate critical risks prior to production deployment.
• Mentor quality engineers and raise testing capability across the chapter.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and compliance teams to embed quality across the lifecycle.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of experience in quality engineering.
• Demonstrated expertise in defining and implementing comprehensive test strategies.
• Proven ability to design and manage automated testing frameworks.
• Experience with compliance and certification testing, particularly with SAMA and major payment schemes.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, where the successful candidate will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, architecture, and compliance to integrate quality throughout the product lifecycle.

Application Process

Interested candidates are invited to apply for this role. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.