Senior QA Engineer: Test Strategy & Automation Leader

Vertere Global Solutions, Inc.

Pasig

On-site

PHP 800,000 - 1,200,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Vertere Global Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to lead quality assurance across the software development lifecycle, define test strategies, drive automation, and ensure release readiness.

This role focuses on mentoring QA team members and promoting quality through collaboration with Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams. You will own end-to-end testing across functional, regression, integration, system, and UAT support, while driving risk-based testing aligned with business

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Software Testing, Quality Assurance, or Test Engineering.
At least 2 years of experience leading QA initiatives, test teams, or testing workstreams.
Strong experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, System Testing, and UAT support.
Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
Experience working with Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD environments.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain testing strategies, coverage models, quality standards, and release quality gates.
Lead test planning activities for sprints, releases, and project deliverables.
Establish testing scope, effort estimates, environment requirements, entry/exit criteria, and risk assessments.
Develop and enforce QA processes, standards, and best practices, including DoR/DoD, test documentation, requirements traceability, and test evidence.
Own end-to-end defect management: triage, severity, root cause analysis, and closure validation.
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Release teams to assess release readiness and provide quality gate recommendations.
Deliver regular reporting on test progress, coverage, pass/fail rates, defect trends, and release risks.
Define and drive automation testing strategy across applications and platforms; integrate into CI/CD pipelines.
Partner with DevOps and cross-functional teams to ensure environment readiness and data management.
Mentor and coach QA Engineers; support onboarding and development of new team members.
Promote shift-left testing and continuous improvement across processes, frameworks, data management, regression strategies, templates.