Senior QA Engineer

About the role

ZainCash Iraq, a leading mobile wallet and Forbes top Fintech company of 2023 and 2024, is hiring a Senior QA Engineer. The role covers test planning and execution, defect management, automation, non-functional testing and mentoring junior testers within tight release cycles.

Key responsibilities

• Design and execute test plans, test cases and regression suites for web, iOS, Android and API integrations
• Identify, isolate and track defects across apps, backend services and third-party integrations, and verify fixes before release
• Build and maintain automated tests for UI and API, and run them in CI/CD pipelines
• Support security and performance testing for high-volume financial transactions
• Take part in root cause analysis for high-priority production defects and help prevent repeat issues
• Work with Product, Development and DevOps to define acceptance criteria, and mentor junior QA engineers

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or a related field
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on QA experience, preferably in fintech, banking, telecom or e-commerce
• Fluent Arabic and English, written and spoken
• Strong analytical skills, ownership of quality and clear communication with developers and business teams
• Experience mentoring junior testers or leading a test initiative

Required skills

• Manual and functional testing, with clear test cases, test plans and regression suites
• API testing (Postman or similar) and SQL
• Jira and Confluence for test and defect management
• Test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium or RestAssured
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI or GitHub Actions)
• Performance and security basics (JMeter, k6 or Locust, OWASP)
• Scripting in Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript or Shell