Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Arabic.AI · Amman
Job Purpose
As a QA Automation Engineer at Tarjama&, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing solutions to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our products. The role focuses on test automation, API validation, and CI/CD integration to support fast, scalable, and high-quality software delivery.
Duties & Responsibilities
Automation Test Planning & Design
- Review business requirements, system specifications, and technical design documents to ensure test automation coverage.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated UI test frameworks using tools such as Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium.
- Identify and prioritize test scenarios suitable for automation.
- Develop automated API test cases to validate backend services and integrations.
Test Execution, Monitoring & Defect Management
- Execute automated test suites across multiple environments.
- Analyze test execution results and report defects with clear reproduction steps.
- Perform automated regression testing for new releases and bug fixes.
- Track issues to closure, ensuring timely resolution in coordination with development teams.
- Perform different types of testing, including functional, regression, system, and integration testing.
CI/CD & DevOps Collaboration
- Support the integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Utilize Git for version control of automation scripts and test assets.
- Work closely with DevOps and development teams to ensure smooth test execution within deployment pipelines.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication
- Collaborate with developers, product managers, and QA team members to understand requirements and testing objectives.
- Participate actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
Education, Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 1–4 years of proven experience in software quality assurance with a strong focus on test automation.
- Proven experience in API testing and automation.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining UI test automation frameworks using Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or similar tools.
- Intermediate coding skills in JavaScript, Python, Java, or equivalent.
- Experience writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
- Hands-on experience with both white-box and black-box testing.
- Solid understanding of manual testing techniques.
- Experience tracking defects to closure using bug tracking tools such as JIRA, HP ALM, or similar.
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum and DevOps environments.
- Basic working knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
- Excellent command of spoken and written English and Arabic.
Behavioral Competencies
- Initiative
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
- Adaptability
- Ability to Work Under Pressure
Technical Competencies
- Test Automation Framework Development (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium)
- API Testing & Automation
- Intermediate Programming Skills
- Agile / Scrum & DevOps Methodologies
- Version Control (Git)
- CI/CD Fundamentals
- Defect Tracking (JIRA, HP ALM, or similar)
- SDLC & QA Methodologies