Middle Manual QA Engineer

As a Middle QA Engineer you will be a part of City Team in QIC app City Team drives QIC’s non-insurance ecosystem, with a current focus on building travel products from scratch. They develop flows of how users discover, plan, and experience travel — creating seamless, digital-first solutions that integrate into everyday life.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality assurance across a multi-component ecosystem, including Web, iOS/Android mobile applications, and Backend services

• Lead validation of high-risk integrations, including third-party SDKs, ensuring data integrity, performance, and reliability

• Design and maintain test strategies, test plans, and acceptance criteria for complex product features

• Perform early-stage (shift-left) analysis of requirements, specifications, and architecture to identify risks and inconsistencies

• Manage the full defect lifecycle: identify, document, prioritize, and verify fixes within release cycles

• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) using logs and monitoring tools across staging and production environments

• Collaborate with DevOps and Automation teams to improve CI/CD processes and accelerate delivery

• Provide flexible QA support across teams and projects based on business needs

Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance within product-driven or financial environments

• Strong expertise in mobile QA: deep understanding of iOS and Android architectures, experience with Xcode and Android Studio, and client-server interactions

• Hands-on experience with traffic inspection tools (e.g., Charles, Proxyman, Fiddler) for debugging integrations and analyzing API traffic

• Solid experience in backend and API testing: REST (Postman, Swagger, cURL) and familiarity with gRPC (Protobuf)

• Understanding of microservices architecture and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka)

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Sentry, Firebase Crashlytics, Kibana) for troubleshooting and RCA

• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, Agile/Scrum practices, and experience working in complex, enterprise environments

• English B2

Nice-to-have:‍

• Basic knowledge of test automation, CI/CD (GitLab CI/GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and SQL for data validation

We offer

• Long-term service agreement contract with QIC with 3 months probation period

• We are diverse — our digital nomads work remotely from 25+ different countries

• Payment in US dollars monthly to your bank account using SWIFT

• Full-time remote, work schedule: 5 days per week, Sunday to Thursday, GMT +3 timezone

• Vacation policy: Qatar Holiday Calendar, 20 vacation days, 10 sick offs

• Performance reviews are conducted twice a year, with the possibility of a raise

• Potential opportunity to apply for a Qatar ID and relocation to Doha, Qatar