Senior QA Engineer II- Test Architect

Job Description

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the regions best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.Senior Quality Engineer - Test ArchitectCareem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organization that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the regions best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.About the jobAs the Senior Quality Engineering - Quality Architect , you will lead Careems automatic testing practices, processes and efforts - across all their products - and ensure that their products meet our high standards for our customers.Reporting to the Head of Quality Engineering, you will work closely with product, quality engineers, architects and engineering leaders across Careem to ensure we build best-in-class software products that simplify and improve the lives of people.RequirementsThe ideal candidate will have a passionate commitment to improving the lives of people, a quality driven mindset, an insane focus on excellence and customer service, and a strong alignment with our core values: being bold, focused, agile and collaborative.Responsibilities

• Possesses in-depth knowledge of all quality testing methodologies.
• Proven track record in a Solution Automation Architect role, specifically for business rule-driven message-based applications.
• Creates and implements a short and long-term vision for Test Automation, focusing on reducing test cycle times across product lines.
• Develops a structured test methodology for integrated solutions testing based on customer use cases.
• Integrates and writes test software and automates tests, contributing to test solution implementation and validation.
• Executes functional tests, investigates issues, reports errors, and validates fixes.
• Provides senior-level test automation and tools architecture support to an API services development team.
• Proficient in industry leading test automation framework, brings best practices and innovation to Careem..
• Conducts research to identify appropriate tools, automation frameworks, and methodologies.
• Collaborates cross-functionally with Test Architects and Test Leads to analyze existing processes and define improvements in test strategy, frameworks, infrastructure, tools, and test coverage.
• Drives team optimization to enhance testing processes.
• Coaches and mentors junior team members.
• Takes responsibility for test plans, test scripts, and automated test execution.
• Serves as a counterpart to the product and architecture teams, for planning, brainstorming, and execution.
• Exerts leadership and influence in shaping organizational values, systems, culture, and process maturity.
• Focuses on efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness in testing processes.
• Demonstrates strong influencing skills, translating technical information into business language.
• This role will report directly to the Head of Quality Engineering

Preferred qualifications:

• 10+ years of prior experience working as Quality architecture role as well as managing customer/client-facing projects.
• Experience in Testing strategies and best practices for software development life cycle.
• Experience in state of the art test automation frameworks and methodologies for mobile and backend systems
• Experience in designing and maintaining internet facing production-grade applications in distributed virtualized or containerized environments.
• Demonstrated experience using state-of-the-art generative AI techniques for enhancing quality testing processes and test case generation.

What well provide youWe offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a Careem colleague you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Enjoy the flexibility that comes with the trust of being an owner work in a hybrid style with a mix of days at the office and at home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year.
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including: gym, health club and training classes.

Keyskills :
test automation Test Methodology test automation framework Test Strategy test case generation test coverage

About Company

Careem is a Dubai-based ridesharing company with operations in over 100 cities, covering 15 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia regions. The company, which was valued at over US$2 billion in 2018, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber after being acquired for $3.1 billion in January 2020.