QA Backend Tech Lead

About the position

As a QA Backend Tech Lead you will drive QA strategy and best practices across QIC’s backend ecosystem while mentoring QA engineers in product teams. In your day-to-day work, you will be part of the Core team, ensuring the quality of our insurance platform and distributed backend services. The Core team develops the backend platform that powers QIC’s insurance products and expanding lifestyle services, building scalable, high-performance services for the QIC Ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the backend quality strategy across the software development lifecycle

• Lead testing of distributed microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and end-to-end business flows

• Build and evolve automated testing frameworks and quality gates within CI/CD pipelines

• Drive non-functional, performance, and reliability testing for high-load backend services

• Use observability tools to investigate production issues and collaborate with engineering teams on root-cause analysis

• Improve test infrastructure, quality metrics, and engineering processes to increase release confidence

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in QA Engineering

• Proven technical leadership as a QA Tech Lead, QA Lead, or Principal SDET, with hands-on ownership of quality for production backend services

• Significant experience testing distributed backend microservices, including gRPC APIs and Kafka event-driven systems

• Hands-on experience with test automation, CI/CD quality gates (GitLab CI)

• Experience with Kubernetes and public cloud platforms (GCP preferred)

• Strong knowledge of observability tools (ELK, Grafana) for production debugging and root-cause analysis

• Working background in defining QA strategy across the SDLC, including performance testing, quality metrics, and release readiness

• Proficiency in performance and non-functional testing for high-load backend services

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• English level B2 or higher

Nice to have:

• Strong programming skills in Java and/or Python, experience with contract, API, and performance testing tools.

• Experience with test data management in regulated environments, ArgoCD/GitOps, and insurance, fintech, payments domains or e-commerce is also relevant

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

Benefits

• Explore all

• Extra paid leave

• Enjoy generous vacation time, paid sick leave, and bonus days for years of service.

• Language classes

• Master communication. Learn English, Arabic—or any second language of your choice.

• Meeting with experts

• Stay sharp with sessions on investing, mental wellbeing, and intercultural communication.

• Professional development

• Your growth is our shared goal. We’ll support it with $600/year for additional courses, plus internal workshops.

• QIC running club

• Join our Strava club for weekly motivation, coaching, and marathon support.

• Relocation support

• We’ll cover agency fees and provide hands-on support throughout your transition.

• Remote health insurance

• Quality healthcare, wherever you are in the world—with up to $1,500 in dental coverage included.

• Tax consultations

• We’ll guide you through the complexity of local and international tax rules.

• Travel discounts

• Save with perks from Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, and Doha hotel partners via our Employee Privilege Program.

• USD, EUR, or AED salary payouts

• Get paid in USD, EUR, or AED—whichever fits your setup best.

Recognized for Workplace Excellence

These honors reflect our commitment to building an inclusive, empowering, and people-first culture across everything we do

• Great Place to Work® Certified – Qatar

• Certified as a Great Place to Work® in Qatar for 2025–2026, based on employee feedback and our focus on trust, collaboration, and belonging

• Future Workplace Awards – Employer of the Year

• Shortlisted for Employer of the Year at the 2025 Future Workplace Awards for building an inclusive, empowering workplace

Technologies we work with

We are open to working with new stacks and technologies that can help us build the best solutions on the market

• Vue 3

• Pinia

• Nuxt 3

• Storybook

• Sentry

• Golang

• PostgreSQL

• Kafka

• gRPC

• Camunda

• Redis

• Docker/Kubernetes

• Prometheus/Grafana

• Vue 3

• Pinia

• Sass

• Vitest

• Prettier

• Strapi

• Vite

• Sentry

• Nx

• Typescript

• Eslint

• Prettier

• Docker/Kubernetes

• Storybook

• Prometheus/Grafana

• Redis