Quality Assurance & Test Engineer

AF Payments Inc.; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

AF Payments Inc. is seeking a Quality Assurance and Test Engineer to drive end-to-end QA, testing, and release activities across pre-prod to production. You will identify defects, ensure compliance with specs, and proactively prevent failures as part of an agile team.

You will lead testing efforts, propose tools and best practices, and collaborate with the QA and Release Manager and cross-functional developers to ensure timely, high-quality releases.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional IT and solutions development experience.
• Graduate of Computer Science or similar IT, Data Science or programming courses.
• Preference for Scrum background and GitHub usage.
• Experience building cross‑platform apps with multi-stack tech including .NET, Java, Flutter, React, and Figma.
• Familiarity with backend SOA or microservices and related tools.
• Understanding of MVP/MVVM patterns and frameworks.
• Knowledge of Big Data, data lakes, BI/Analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end QA, testing and release activities from pre-production to production.
• Identify defects, deviations, and performance issues; prevent failures early.
• Recommend tools and best practices; share knowledge across teams.
• Engage from sprint start to plan how features will be tested in an agile model.
• Collaborate with QA and Release Manager, developers, and stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

People management

Coordination

Written communication

Verbal communication

Attention to detail

Time management

Business acumen

Process improvement

Teamwork

Results oriented

Leadership

Data analysis

Agile / Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related IT field

Tools

.NET

Java

Flutter

React

Figma

GitHub

Linux

Kafka

Firebase

Job description

The role of the Quality Assurance and Test Engineer (QATE) is work with the Quality Assurance and Release Manager in implementing the end-to end processes of the Quality Assurance, Testing and Release activities from a pre-production, pre-test environment to the final test and production environment to provide a fail-proof system in every stage of the product development and the deployment.

The QATE takes an active role in identifying every and all the inconsistencies, defects, deviation from specifications, decrease in performance after developers have completed their work and take a proactive role in preventing possible failure at an early stage until the execution of tests are in place to guarantee the quality of the product and applications are in compliance and within or above the set of standards to successfully implement the testing phase and propose the right solution or approval to the Quality Assurance & Release Manager before final release, if necessary, within the planned timeframe.

The QATE has full access to all environments to ensure that the development and testing processes are correct. The QATE is to recommend tools and sharing best practices to help speed up the process for developers. The QATE takes an active role from the beginning of each sprint to understand what’s going to be built and how it’s going to be tested in an agile working model, where one phase of the process depends on the completion of the previous phase, where testing and development simultaneously take place during a sprint.

Functional Competencies

• Has strong project management and people management skills
• Has strong coordination skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• High attention to details
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills
• Strong business acumen
• Process improvement
• Ability to work effectively within a team and independently.
• High proficiency in the use of technology
• Strong Project Management
• Leadership and Influence
• Data Analysis
• Creative and Concept Development
• Capable of leading and motivating team for collaborative and productive work environment;
• Can handle issues under pressure;
• Communicates and interacts well with clients and able to articulate solution and application clearly;
• Can work in super-agile environment following scrum framework;
• Performance driven and Results oriented

Education and Work Background

• Minimum of 5-years relevant Professional IT and Solutions Development experience;
• Graduate of Computer Science or similar IT, Data Science or Programming Courses;
• Preference with background experience on Scrum method and Github platform;
• Experience In building complex applications for cross-platform support using multi-stack development and platforms such as .Net, Java, Flutter, React IDEs, and Figma for mobile, web, desktop, feature devices;
• This includes familiarity with backend SOA or Microservices on .Net, J2EE, Linux, DBMS, Message Queues, SQL Lite or Firebase with APIs on REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, GRPC, KAFKA;
• Understanding of MVP and MVVM development patterns and frameworks;
• Working knowledge Bigdata and Datalake frameworks, platforms and tools for Business Intelligence and Analytics;
• Manage Builds, Versions, Source Codes with Github and publish mobile applications with Googleplay and Appstore;
• Familiarity with Scrum Framework for a super agile and adaptive development methodology;