Senior QA Engineer

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.

Requirements

- 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.