# Senior Automation & Quality Engineer- 6 Month Project- Riyadh, KSA

> DeepSource Technologies · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Full-time · Posted 2026-06-16

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

We are seeking a Senior Automation & Quality Engineer to own and scale our automation and quality practices across web applications, APIs, and cloud-native workloads. This role is hands-on and production-focused—responsible for building reliable automated testing, performance/load testing, and quality gates integrated into GitLab CI/CD. You will work closely with developers and platform teams to improve release confidence, reduce regressions, and ensure performance readiness.

This role requires proven hands-on capability in automation and performance testing at scale. If you do not have practical experience with Playwright/Selenium, JMeter, GitLab pipelines, and Java/Python automation, you are not the one.

**Key Responsibilities**

1) Test Automation (UI, API, Integration)

-   Design and maintain end-to-end (E2E) automation using Playwright and Selenium across critical user journeys.
-   Develop maintainable automation frameworks and reusable test components in Java and Python.
-   Implement robust test strategies: smoke tests, regression suites, integration tests, and API tests aligned with release workflows.
-   Ensure stable execution in CI environments with proper test data handling, environment readiness checks, and reporting.

2) Performance & Load Testing

-   Build and execute performance/load test plans using JMeter and k8s-based load testing approaches (distributed execution when needed).
-   Define performance baselines and SLAs (response time, throughput, error rate) and validate against real-world scenarios.
-   Analyze bottlenecks and provide actionable recommendations (application, database, infrastructure, or platform-related).

3) CI/CD Quality Gates (GitLab)

-   Integrate automation suites into GitLab pipelines as enforceable quality gates (merge request validations, pre-release gates, scheduled regression).
-   Implement pipeline best practices: parallelization, caching, artifact handling, test retries logic, and reliable reporting.
-   Enforce standards for code quality and test readiness, ensuring “done” includes automation coverage and measurable quality signals.

4) Unit Testing & Developer Enablement

-   Define and enforce unit test expectations with developers (coverage targets, critical module focus, fast feedback cycles).
-   Support teams in improving testability and writing reliable unit tests (especially for high-risk components).
-   Promote consistent test patterns and shift-left quality practices.

5) Workflow Automation (n8n)

-   Build workflow automations using n8n to streamline quality operations (e.g., triggering tests, notifications, approvals, reporting dashboards).
-   Automate repeatable QA processes to reduce manual effort and increase consistency.

6) Reporting, Documentation & Quality Governance

-   Produce clear quality dashboards and reports: pass/fail trends, flakiness tracking, performance trends, release readiness indicators.
-   Document test strategies, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
-   Participate in incident reviews/RCA and introduce preventive quality controls.

## Requirements

-   5+ years of experience in QA Automation / SDET / Quality Engineering (senior level, hands-on).
-   Strong hands-on expertise with:

1.  Playwright and/or Selenium for E2E automation
2.  JMeter for performance and load testing
3.  GitLab CI/CD integration and pipeline-driven quality gates
4.  Automation development in Java and Python
5.  Unit test practices and supporting engineering teams with testing standards

-   Experience running tests in containerized/cloud-native environments and handling CI reliability challenges (test stability, environment readiness, reporting).

Strong Advantages (Nice to Have)

-   Distributed load testing in Kubernetes (k8s execution patterns, scalability, reliability).
-   Test reporting frameworks and dashboards (trend analysis, flakiness reduction).
-   HRDF-Restricted-Internal
-   API mocking/service virtualization strategies for reliable automated testing.
-   Experience with release governance and quality sign-off frameworks.

## Benefits

-   Medical Insurance
-   Social Insurance
-   Iqama Issuing
-   Air tickets

## Apply

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