AI-Driven QA Engineer (API Automation)

Outsourcey; Philippines; Remote; PHP 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

HR function shaping opportunities

Team of industry leaders

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Outsourcey in the Philippines is seeking an experienced QA/Test Engineer to join our enterprise-grade testing initiatives. You will own API-level test strategies, build automated tests with Pytest and Playwright, and drive AI-assisted testing across microservices.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in QA, strong English, and a background in payments or core banking is a plus. You will work from Outsourcey Manila on provisioned devices under LFS security standards, contributing to data masking and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on QA/test engineering on enterprise tech programs.
• Strong API test automation against Go and microservices.
• Hands-on with Pytest, Puppeteer or Playwright.
• Experience with AI-native test tooling and synthetic data.
• Data masking, PII handling and compliance with data classifications.
• Defect triage and root-cause analysis under KPI gates.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Nice to have: payments/core banking domain experience.
• Exposure to performance, resilience tooling and security testing.
• Contributions to QA playbooks and AI-assisted testing standards.
• CI/CD integration (Buildkite) and test reporting to Datadog.
• Able to work from Outsourcey Manila facility on provisioned devices under LFS security standards.

Responsibilities

• Own iteration test strategy and plan aligned to the LFS PayTech Test Strategy.
• Design and build API-level automated tests using pytest framework (contract, integration, end-to-end).
• Drive AI-led test case generation, synthetic/masked test data generation, and risk-based test selection using approved test-automation AI tooling.
• Implement self-healing automation patterns where it materially reduces flake and maintenance effort.
• Own non-functional test coverage relevant to each service — performance smoke, resilience, and security test hooks.
• Triage, reproduce, and own defects through resolution during iteration delivery and 2-week JSIT windows; enforce the no open Sev 1/Sev 2 KPI gate.
• Partner with the BA on acceptance criteria and with engineers on test hooks designed in, not bolted on.
• Feed iteration KPI reporting with test-quality signal (defect density, escape rate, automation coverage).
• Contribute to showcase demonstrations with clear, test-evidenced quality narratives.

Skills

QA engineering

API test automation

Pytest / Playwright

AI-native testing

Test data management

Defect triage

English proficiency

Payment domain experience

Performance testing

Security testing

QA playbooks

CI/CD integration

Buildkite

Datadog reporting

Tools

Go

pytest

Playwright

Puppeteer

k6

JMeter

OWASP ZAP

SAST/DAST

Datadog

Buildkite

Job description

Outsourcey in the Philippines is seeking an experienced QA/Test Engineer to join our enterprise-grade testing initiatives. You will own API-level test strategies, build automated tests with Pytest and Playwright, and drive AI-assisted testing across microservices.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in QA, strong English, and a background in payments or core banking is a plus. You will work from Outsourcey Manila on provisioned devices under LFS security standards, contributing to data masking and