Quality Assurance Engineer (On-site, Abu Dhabi)

About the role

We are looking for a hands‑on Quality Assurance Engineer to join our fast‑moving team in Abu Dhabi. You will work closely with developers and platform engineers to ensure high‑quality releases through manual testing, environment preparation, and lightweight scripting.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare and configure test systems, including installation, network setup, and test data provisioning.
• Retrieve build artifacts from the upstream platform team, integrate them, and validate for testing.
• Execute scripted test cases and perform exploratory, functional, regression, integration, and smoke testing on networked components.
• Collect logs and evidence, file clear defect reports, and verify fixes.
• Communicate test status, risks, and readiness to stakeholders.

Required profile

• QA professional with practical Linux and networking exposure.
• Comfortable using the terminal and writing light scripts for environment setup and issue triage.
• Clear communicator with strong attention to detail and follow‑through.
• Collaborative and reliable, able to support teams across time zones.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.

Required skills

• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, subnets, routing/switching basics, DNS/DHCP, packet capture/analysis).
• Linux OS proficiency (installation, services, networking tools, log analysis, shell usage).
• Manual testing discipline with meticulous execution and defect reporting.
• Basic DevOps knowledge (CI/CD concepts, containers, infrastructure fundamentals).
• Experience with issue tracking tools such as Jira.
• Familiarity with Git‑based workflows for retrieving build artifacts.