Test Lead

About the Role

This senior Test Lead position is based in Riyadh and requires extensive expertise in quality assurance and test management within large-scale enterprise environments, specifically focused on telecom industry digital transformation projects. The role involves end-to-end test planning, execution, and governance of complex web services and digital business applications under agile methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive testing strategy ensuring alignment with project roadmaps and stakeholder quality expectations.
• Manage diverse testing efforts including functional, integration, system, and regression tests for web services and business applications.
• Enable agile test lifecycle management with continuous planning, backlog grooming, and feedback integration to boost test coverage and speed defect identification.
• Administer test design and execution in Zephyr maintaining robust traceability across requirements, user stories, and defect tracking.
• Leverage Jira to monitor defects, user stories, and test progress, ensuring transparent workflow communication with development and product teams.
• Integrate Git version control principles within testing to coordinate with development branches and maintain reproducible test assets.
• Conduct thorough API testing using Postman and SoapUI, validating request-response cycles, error handling, and performance metrics of RESTful interfaces.
• Carry out SQL-based data verification to confirm data fidelity, transformation accuracy, and consistency between front-end operations and back-end databases.
• Focus test coverage on critical business functions such as performance rating processes, emphasizing risk-based prioritization to mitigate customer and operational impacts.
• Work collaboratively with product owners, analysts, and developers to refine acceptance criteria and ensure testing outputs maximize business value.
• Generate detailed test reporting on defect patterns, root cause analyses, and release readiness to inform project leadership decisions.
• Coach team members on modern testing techniques, agile practices, and effective tool usage fostering a quality-centric, continuously improving culture.
• Communicate testing strategies, status updates, and quality risks clearly in both Arabic and English, facilitating cross-regional coordination in a day-shift office setting.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 13 years in test management or QA leadership roles with a strong telecom domain background.
• Hands-on experience with Zephyr and Jira for test management and defect tracking.
• Skilled in API testing tools including Postman and SoapUI.
• Competent in SQL queries and comprehensive data validation methods.
• Experience driving digital transformation programs at scale within telecom.
• Proficiency in Arabic communication is essential.