Reliability & Testing Lead

About the Opportunity

Join a pioneering financial services organization in the UAE that is leveraging digital innovation and AI to reshape the industry. As the Reliability & Testing Lead, you will have the rare chance to influence key aspects of quality, resilience, and operational success for a rapidly developing institution backed by significant resources and ambitious expansion goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee a comprehensive enterprise testing strategy spanning diverse platforms and applications.
• Design, maintain, and refine automated testing frameworks, robust regression tests, and release validation procedures to accelerate and ensure quality delivery.
• Lead the implementation of site reliability engineering practices, including setting up monitoring systems, alert mechanisms, incident response workflows, and managing error budgets.
• Continuously assess, document, and improve service level agreements (SLAs) and service-level objectives (SLOs) to ensure optimal platform performance.
• Champion effective governance, quality standards, and control measures across all facets of reliability and testing.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to foster a culture of reliability and quality in every stage of product development and delivery.

Experience and Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years leading roles in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, and/or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Extensive hands-on experience with test automation frameworks, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) validation, and management of regression testing suites.
• Proven capability in scaling Site Reliability Engineering practices covering monitoring, observability, incident resolution, and service problem management.
• Expertise in defining, interpreting, and reporting against SLAs and SLOs.
• Background in the banking, financial services, or a similarly regulated technology sector.
• Commitment to operational excellence, robust governance structures, and ongoing process improvement.

Additional Information

This position offers the opportunity to create foundational quality and reliability strategies within a technology-driven financial services environment. You’ll be at the forefront of establishing practices that will enable secure, scalable, and resilient operations as the organization grows.