Quality Assurance Team Lead📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Fircroft is seeking an experienced QA Lead / Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position requires a candidate with over 10 years of experience in quality assurance to lead the QA function and ensure the delivery of high-quality software products.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the overall Test Strategy and establish QA Governance across all products and projects.
• Define, maintain, and continuously improve QA standards, testing methodologies, frameworks, and best practices.
• Develop testing frameworks and manage the complete Testing Lifecycle from planning through execution and release.
• Lead the planning, execution, and monitoring of manual and automated testing activities.
• Design comprehensive test plans, test cases, and testing documentation to ensure complete functional and non-functional coverage.
• Oversee execution of regression, integration, system, performance, and user acceptance testing.
• Lead the implementation and enhancement of Test Automation frameworks and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Promote automation best practices to improve testing efficiency and reduce release cycles.
• Lead QA teams, manage testing schedules, resource allocation, quality KPIs, and performance metrics.
• Track, analyze, and report quality metrics, identifying trends and recommending process improvements.
• Manage the Defect Lifecycle, risk assessment, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions.
• Drive continuous quality improvement initiatives to enhance product reliability and customer experience.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and align testing strategies with business objectives.
• Communicate testing progress, quality risks, and recommendations to senior management and project stakeholders.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent field.
• Over 10 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing, or Quality Engineering.
• Proven experience leading QA teams and managing enterprise-level testing activities.
• Strong expertise in both Manual Testing and Test Automation.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile, Scrum, and DevOps methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD environments and modern testing frameworks.
• Strong analytical, leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman or REST Assured.
• Experience with performance and security testing.
• Experience using defect and test management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, or similar.
• ISTQB or other relevant QA certifications are highly desirable.