Quality Assurance Engineer

About Us:

Building on this global mission to revolutionize education, Little Thinking Minds is transforming Arabic literacy for the future. As a premier K-12 digital literacy platform across the MENA region and beyond, Little Thinking Minds offers a suite of award-winning tools, interactive content, and gamified experiences designed to make learning Arabic exciting and impactful. Through adaptive learning platforms and dedicated teacher-support resources, they bridge critical literacy gaps and inspire a lifelong love for reading by providing continuous visibility into student progress to support and celebrate their learning journey.

Your Team:

A strong QA team serves as the quality gatekeeper for our products, managing multiple testing activities including functional, regression, integration, and potential for automation testing. The team collaborates closely with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to identify risks early, ensure product reliability, and maintain high-quality standards throughout the software development lifecycle.

Your Role:

We are seeking a Mid-Level QA Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of our software products. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, designing, and executing test activities, identifying defects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions. This role requires strong analytical thinking, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements and create detailed test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform functional, integration, regression and system testing.
• Execute API testing and validate backend services.
• Perform database validation using SQL queries.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through JIRA.
• Collaborate with developers and product managers throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Participate in Agile activities, including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Review requirements and provide feedback to improve the product quality.
• Support release validation and production verification activities.
• Mentor junior QA team members and share testing best practices.

Qualifications:

Must-Haves:

• Strong knowledge of quality standards and techniques
• API testing skills
• Very keen eyes and attention to detail
• Mobile testing experience

Nice-to-Haves:

• Automation skills (Javascript capabilities, Cypress Tool, GitLab/GitHub, CI/CD integration)
• CTFL certified
• Database and backend testing

Benefits include:

• Medical insurance as per company policy, commencing after the probation period. Currently through GIG Company. 10 medical forms/year, Level A coverage. Co-pay of 20%.
• One Sunday of every month will be designated as a holiday
• Annual Leave: 14 Working days