Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer to own the quality of a national platform that millions of citizens rely on. Based in Muscat, you will define test strategies, build automation, and manage quality gates that ensure safe releases.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain the test strategy and quality plan across the platform, covering unit, integration, end‑to‑end, performance and security testing.
• Design and implement test automation frameworks and integrate automated tests and quality gates into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Drive shift‑left practices and embed quality engineering early in the development lifecycle.
• Develop automated API, contract, UI and regression test suites that run on every code change.
• Coordinate performance, load, accessibility (WCAG) and security testing with relevant teams.
• Own defect management, root‑cause analysis and quality metrics that indicate release readiness.
• Generate synthetic and masked test data to avoid using real citizen or sensitive information.
• Set reusable test patterns, quality standards and mentor QA/QC engineers across teams.

Required profile

• Proven experience owning quality for production software with a documented test strategy and automation.
• Hands‑on expertise with modern test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium or Cypress.
• Strong understanding of shift‑left and continuous quality engineering principles.
• Experience building tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation.
• Solid background in functional, API, performance, regression and risk‑based testing.
• Commitment to keeping test data clean and never using real citizen data in test environments.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• Fluent English; Arabic is a plus.

Required skills

• Playwright
• Selenium
• Cypress
• Test automation frameworks
• CI/CD pipeline integration
• API testing
• Performance and load testing
• Accessibility testing (WCAG)
• Security testing
• Test data masking and synthetic data generation