Senior AI QA Engineer - Night Shift SDET

Manulife Financial; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife Financial is seeking a Sr. Quality Engineer in Test to join our AI-driven QE Transformation Team in the Philippines. The role demands hands-on expertise, leadership, and strong communication to design AI-enabled test automation frameworks and modernize quality engineering practices.

You will work on an on-site/off-site hybrid model (3x a week in Mactan New Town) and collaborate with global teams to advance DevOps integration, cloud testing platforms, and CI/CD workflows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in the QA/SDET discipline
• Bachelor of Engineering or higher, preferably in Computer Science or Engineering
• Amenable to night shift (8pm–5am) and hybrid work set up (3x a week onsite reporting in Mactan New Town office)
• Experience building and maintaining test frameworks using Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured, Pytest, WebDriverIO, Playwright, and Cucumber
• Experience using Postman, GitHub, GitLab, Git, JIRA, Xray for JIRA, Power BI, New Relic, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or TeamCity
• Strong programming experience in Java, Python, or JavaScript
• Knowledge of AI tools to support development and testing (GenAI, GitHub Copilot, Agentic AI)
• Experience in LLM models, Prompt Engineering, and Copilot for Test Automation
• Experience working with cloud-based testing platforms (Perfecto, Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, AWS Device Farm)
• Understand concepts: BDD, TDD, Shift-left, Mocks/Stubs, Service Virtualization, Synthetic Data, and DevOps CI/CD/CT
• Understand software design lifecycle, architecture principles, design patterns, and various tests

Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced test automation frameworks and AI-driven test solutions
• Develop and promote highly reliable code for maintainability and reusability
• Integrate tools into enterprise DevOps pipelines for end-to-end automation of testing
• Enhance and support applications based on industry standards and best practices (AI or automation tools)
• Drive adoption of modern test automation frameworks and tools across the organization
• Establish and enforce automation standards, frameworks, and best practices

Skills

Java

Python

JavaScript

Test automation

AI tools

Education

Bachelor of Engineering or higher

Tools

Selenium

Appium

Rest Assured

Pytest

WebDriverIO

Playwright

Cucumber

Postman

GitHub

GitLab

Git

JIRA

Xray for JIRA

Power BI

New Relic

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, TeamCity)

Job description

Manulife Financial is seeking a Sr. Quality Engineer in Test to join our AI-driven QE Transformation Team in the Philippines. The role demands hands-on expertise, leadership, and strong communication to design AI-enabled test automation frameworks and modernize quality engineering practices.

You will work on an on-site/off-site hybrid model (3x a week in Mactan New Town) and collaborate with global teams to advance DevOps integration, cloud testing platforms, and CI/CD workflows.