Senior Engineer - Quality Assurance
Senior QA Engineer, Core
42, Abu Dhabi - UAE
Core
42, a leader in AI‑powered cloud and digital infrastructure, is driving transformative technology solutions globally. Leveraging advanced resources and partnerships, Core
42 empowers clients to harness sovereign AI infrastructure, especially in sectors with stringent regulatory needs. With a mission to redefine digital transformation, we combine sovereign capabilities with scalable, high‑performance compute infrastructure, positioning itself at the forefront of AI innovation in the Middle East and beyond.
Senior QA Engineer will be directly responsible for the test engineering activities across the Core
42 generative AI enablement platform and data sovereignty platform. You’ll ensure that robust test plans are in place considering functional as well as non‑functional aspects, focusing on test coverage, hands‑on automation experience with exposure to AI and robust CI/CD implementation experience for the test. Additionally, you will be able to closely collaborate with stakeholders working in an agile environment with transparent and accurate test status reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product and development team to understand requirement, technical details and design effective test strategies and deduce test scenarios.
- Good technical knowledge with hands on expertise on designing automation framework, writing automation test cases, execution and maintaining the pipelines.
- Experience of QA activities of platform services and working knowledge in cloud infrastructure.
- Manage test efforts effectively, ensuring timely delivery under tight release deadlines.
- Well versed working in Agile culture and active participation is required in all the agile ceremonies and able to estimate the effort effectively.
- Good debugging skills in the microservice architecture in terms of analysing the errors and bugs.
- Good communication, collaboration, analytical, reporting, and problem‑solving skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Electronics Engineering, or a related field. A Master’s degree or advanced certifications are often preferred.
- 8 or more years of experience in software test engineering and test automation with CI/CD experience.
- Good communication, collaboration, analytical, debugging reporting, and problem‑solving skills with high sense of accountability for quality of the product.
- Good experience in testing web applications, backend API’s, native mobile applications both functional and open‑source automation tools.
- Hands‑on coding experience with automated testing framework preferably Playwright with Python; other experience Selenium / Appium is also applicable for API using request library (Python) or any similar like Rest Assured (if Java automation background).
- Experience in testing python‑based test framework –PyTest.
- Hands on experience in testing backend platform services, able to write shell script and nice to have cloud Dev Ops skills.
- Hands on experience on building CI/CD preferably Bitbucket or GIT.
- Experience in Test Management Tools and API testing – JIRA, Postman, QMetry, Confluence.
- Able to query databases and comfortable in writing fundamental SQL queries.
- Exposure to cloud platform Azure.
- Good experience in testing web applications, backend API’s, native mobile applications both functional and open‑source automation tools.
- Good functional knowledge of testing API using POSTMAN or any other tools like Newman, CURL etc.
- Experience in working with Test management tools like Zephyr, QMetry, HP Quality Center, JIRA, Azure Dev Ops, or any other similar tool.
- Experience with database querying using SQL, Postgre
SQL nice to have experience on elastic search and Mongo
DB. - Experience in testing framework preferably PyTest any others like TestNG and JUnit can be considered.
- Experience in working on platform and foundation services in any cloud infrastructure with Dev Ops experience preferred.
- Experience in working on cloud platform preferably Azure with understanding on AI services, good to have AWS exposure also.
- Good to have knowledge on monitoring tech stack like time series…
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