Quality Assurance Lead

Role overview

Takamol Holding is hiring a Quality Assurance Lead to guide QA efforts in Riyadh. This position focuses on raising testing quality, shaping QA practices, and supporting dependable software delivery across the product lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise and coach the QA team while reinforcing testing standards and proven QA practices.
• Develop and roll out QA approaches, procedures, and test methodologies.
• Examine business and technical specifications to make sure test coverage is complete.
• Create, refine, and run detailed test plans, test cases, and test scenarios.
• Develop, sustain, and enhance automation testing frameworks.
• Carry out functional, integration, regression, system, smoke, API, performance, and UAT support testing.
• Work closely with Development, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and DevOps teams across the SDLC.
• Find, log, prioritize, and confirm defect fixes through to closure.
• Investigate defect root causes and suggest preventive improvements.
• Verify that releases satisfy quality expectations before deployment.
• Prepare QA dashboards, reports, and quality metrics for management review.
• Take part in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning sessions.
• Assist with CI/CD adoption and test automation inside deployment pipelines.
• Improve test effectiveness through automation and process refinement.
• Maintain alignment with organizational quality and security standards.

Requirements

• Substantial experience in both manual and automated testing.
• Hands-on exposure to API testing using tools like Postman or Swagger.
• Experience with JIRA, Azure DevOps, or comparable ALM platforms.
• Solid understanding of SQL and database validation.
• Working knowledge of Git and version control practices.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.
• Understanding of REST APIs and microservices-based systems.
• Familiarity with Agile and Scrum ways of working.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a similar discipline.
• 4 to 5 years of practical technical QA experience.
• Prior responsibility for leading QA activities or mentoring QA engineers.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting ability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving Agile environment.

Additional information

No stipend, salary, perks, eligibility restrictions, vacancy count, start date, or application deadline were specified in the source.