
QA Developer Manager
- Riyadh
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers (manual + automation).
- Allocate QA resources across multiple active projects.
- Maintain remote team discipline, clear communication, and daily visibility on progress.
- Align QA work with KSA client expectations and regulatory requirements.
- Build and maintain automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Appium, Detox, Postman/Newman).
- Create and maintain test suites for functional, regression, smoke, performance, and security testing.
- Drive automation coverage for web, mobile, and API layers.
- Establish QA best practices, including shift-left testing and continuous integration testing.
- Implement ITIL-aligned incident and problem management processes.
- Own the defect triage process and facilitate daily bug prioritisation with PMs and devs.
- Ensure test environments, staging builds, and release candidates are stable before go-live.
- Lead RCA for high-severity bugs and production issues.
- Identify gaps in requirements, process, or tooling - and implement solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Maintain QA dashboards and quality metrics.
- Work with product owners, developers, and designers to clarify requirements.
- Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Ensure cross-functional teams understand the definition of “done” and quality gates.
- 7+ years in QA, with at least 3+ years in a QA Lead/Manager role.
- Proven experience managing remote teams and multi-project delivery.
- Strong automation skills with frameworks like Cypress, Playwright, Appium, Detox, Selenium, or similar.
- Hands-on experience with API testing (Postman, REST, GraphQL).
- Experience with mobile app testing (iOS/Android), including device farms.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, Fastlane).
- Experience with ITIL processes for change, incident, and problem management.
- Strong understanding of digital and mobile product lifecycles.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - proven track record in RCA.
- Strong stakeholder management skills in Saudi/GCC client environments.
- Excellent communication skills in English (Arabic is mandatory).