Senior QA Automation Engineer

At Xenon7, we work with leading enterprises and innovative startups on exciting, cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies across various domains of IT including Data, Web, Infrastructure, AI, and many others. Our expertise in IT solutions development and on-demand resources allows us to partner with clients on transformative initiatives, driving innovation and business growth. Whether it's empowering global organizations or collaborating with trailblazing startups, we are committed to delivering advanced, impactful solutions that meet today’s most complex challenge

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 if you are located in Cairo or fully remote for international contractors.

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements

• 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