Expert Automation Test Engineer

Expert Automation & Simulation EngineerQuality Engineering | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Onsite Position Expert Automation & Simulation Engineer Level Expert — more than 10 years of relevant experience Location Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — onsite Employment type Full-time  Key ResponsibilitiesAutomation Framework Design & Engineering•    Design, build and maintain reusable UI and API automation frameworks with scalability, maintainability and reusability built in from the start.•    Own the architecture of the automation solution — modular design, reusable components, configuration management and version-controlled assets.•    Automate regression and certification suites, continuously extending coverage to reduce manual effort and shorten cycle time.•    Design and implement synthetic test-data generation to remove data dependencies and unblock parallel test execution.Payment Simulation & Service Virtualization•    Build and maintain ISO 8583 simulators for card flows across ATM, POS and e-commerce channels.•    Develop ISO 20022 message generators for transfer and settlement flows, including dynamic message construction and validation.•    Develop SOAP / XML stubs and service simulators for counterparties and channels that are not always available for testing.•    Operate simulation services to de-risk certification cycles and reduce reliance on end-to-end manual testing.CI/CD Integration & Reporting•    Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or equivalent) as part of the deployment workflow.•    Structure smoke, sanity and regression suites so the right coverage runs at the right stage of the pipeline.•    Produce robust execution reporting and dashboards that evidence quality, coverage and reliability.  Required Qualifications•    Education — BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.•    Experience — more than 10 years of relevant experience, including substantial time designing and building automation frameworks from the ground up — not only writing scripts within an existing framework.•    Programming — strong hands-on Java, sound object-oriented design, and disciplined use of version control and code review.•    Automation engineering — proven framework architecture: modular design, reusable components, data-driven and keyword-driven approaches, parallel execution and reporting.•    Tools — Selenium, REST Assured, SoapUI, TestNG, Jenkins and Git. Docker and containerized execution an advantage.•    Simulation — demonstrable experience building simulators, stubs, mocks or service virtualization for systems and interfaces unavailable in test.•    Technical literacy — REST and SOAP services, JSON and XML message structures, message queues, socket-based connections, and log analysis.•    Languages — Professional working English•    Eligibility — based in or willing to relocate to Riyadh; able to work 100% onsiteDomain Knowledge (Strongly Preferred)We are looking for familiarity with any of the following:•    Payment messaging standards — ISO 8583 for cards and ISO 20022, including field-level message construction and parsing.•    Payment protocols and interfaces — SOAP / XML and REST services, message queues, and host-to-host interface.•    ISO 8583 libraries such as jPOS, or equivalent experience building card-transaction simulators.•    Payment security concepts — MAC and cryptogram calculation, PIN block handling, key exchange, and encryption / decryption in transaction flows.•    Certification and conformance testing, and how automation and simulation shorten certification cycles.Certifications•    ISTQB Advanced Level — Test Automation Engineer — Preferred•    ISTQB Foundation Level (CTFL)•    Relevant programming or cloud/DevOps certification — an advantage