QA Automation Engineer II: Automate & Lead Testing

Arch Global Services Philippines; Manila; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Arch Global Services Philippines is seeking a QA Engineer to join our testing team. You will drive manual and automated testing efforts, write automation scripts, and contribute to building and maintaining a robust test framework for web and client-side applications.

Work closely with Agile teams, document test plans, and mentor junior staff while continuously improving testing processes and toolchains. A strong background in Java and automation tools is required to ensure high-quality releases.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of OOP concepts: Inheritance, Abstraction, Encapsulation and Polymorphism.
• Hands-on automation and manual testing framework experience.
• Excellent Java development skills with strong debugging and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficient with automation tools like Selenium WebDriver with Java, TestNG, JUnit, Maven, Cucumber, Jenkins, Git/BitBucket for testing client-side and web-based applications.
• Experience in developing test scripts to implement features, test scenarios and BDD step-definitions using Cucumber/Spock.
• Hands-on in functional, integration, regression, smoke, sanity and UAT testing.
• Knowledge of build management tools: Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Ansible.
• Experience with cloud repositories: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab.
• CI tools: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, TeamCity.
• Experience in Agile teams collaborating with engineering and business groups.
• Understanding of Testing Life Cycle including test designs, test case development, defect reporting.
• 5–12 years of experience in Testing / SDET / Dev; development background is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Document and plan regression, integration and automation test plans and test cases with cross-functional teams.
• Write automation scripts (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python, C# etc.).
• Troubleshoot and optimize the automation framework.
• Support functional validation and sprint activities.
• Communicate test coverage with development and product teams.
• Enhance and execute automated test plans against new features; report defects.
• Continuously improve automation framework and processes with latest technologies.
• Lead scrum test teams by example and promote collaboration.
• Mentor junior team members on automation trends.

Skills

OOP concepts

Automation testing

Manual testing

Java development

Debugging

Problem solving

Selenium WebDriver

TestNG

JUnit

Maven

Cucumber

Jenkins

Git/BitBucket

GitHub/GitLab

Spock Framework

BDD

Agile

Testing Life Cycle

SDET/Dev

Development experience

Education

BS in Computer Science, Information Technology degree or equivalent

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

TestNG

JUnit

Maven

Cucumber

Jenkins

Git/BitBucket

GitHub

GitLab

Gradle

Ansible

Azure DevOps

TeamCity

Spock Framework

Cucumber/Gherkin

Job description

Arch Global Services Philippines is seeking a QA Engineer to join our testing team. You will drive manual and automated testing efforts, write automation scripts, and contribute to building and maintaining a robust test framework for web and client-side applications.

Work closely with Agile teams, document test plans, and mentor junior staff while continuously improving testing processes and toolchains. A strong background in Java and automation tools is required to ensure high-quality releases.