Senior QA Engineer
ZainCash Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
Financial Services · 201-500 employees
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About the role
The Senior QA Engineer will design and execute comprehensive test plans for web and mobile applications while managing defects across backend services. They will also mentor junior team members and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality releases.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a technical field and possess at least 3 years of hands-on software quality assurance experience. Proficiency in API testing, SQL, and test automation tools is required, along with strong analytical and communication skills.
Full description
About Zaincash
ZainCash Iraq is a leading mobile wallet in Iraq and recognized as Forbes top Fintech company of 2023 and 2024 as well as GSMA’s Best Mobile Innovation Supporting Humanitarian Situations. The company offers a range of consumer and business services including local and international money transfer, bill payments, companion payment cards, payroll, aid disbursement, and more. For more information, please visit www.zaincash.iq.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related field. - Experience: Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, preferably in fintech, banking, telecom or e-commerce. - Languages: Fluent in Arabic and English, written and spoken. - Testing skills: Strong manual and functional testing, with the ability to design clear test cases, test plans and regression suites. - API and database testing: Solid API testing (Postman or similar) and SQL skills to validate backend data and transactions. - Tools: Comfortable working in Jira and Confluence for test and defect management. - Mindset: Strong analytical skills, ownership of quality, and clear communication with developers and business teams under tight release cycles. - Automation: Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium or RestAssured. - Scripting: Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript or Shell. - CI/CD: Running automated tests in pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI or GitHub Actions). - Performance and security: Familiarity with JMeter, k6 or Locust, and OWASP basics. - Leadership: Experience mentoring junior testers or leading a test initiative.
- Test planning and execution: Design and execute test plans, test cases and regression suites for web, iOS, Android and API integrations. - Defect management: Identify, isolate and track defects across the apps, backend services and third-party integrations, and verify fixes before release. - Test automation (where applicable): Build and maintain automated tests for UI and API, and run them in CI/CD pipelines. - Non-functional testing: Support security and performance testing for high-volume financial transactions. - Production issues: Take part in root cause analysis for high-priority production defects and help prevent repeat issues. - Collaboration and mentoring: Work with Product, Development and DevOps to define acceptance criteria, and mentor junior QA engineers.
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