Senior Test Engineer: CI/CD & Test Automation Leader

SUMO Services Corporation; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 800,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

SUMO Services Corporation is seeking a senior Test Engineer to lead and expand automated testing across our engineering stack in Metro Manila. You will own tests for high-risk financial data flows, build scalable test infrastructure, and act as a quality gatekeeper on pull requests while uplifting the team’s testing capabilities.

The role is hands-on and requires you to implement an end-to-end testing strategy, including a full CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, and to mentor developers in

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering or test engineering experience.
• Proven experience building or significantly expanding a CI/CD pipeline, ideally with GitHub Actions.
• Strong experience with integration testing (e.g., containerized test environments such as Testcontainers) and end-to-end testing tools (Playwright, Cypress, or similar).
• Comfortable reading and writing code in our stack: [Backend language/framework], [Frontend framework]
• Track record of growing and scaling automated testing practices on an engineering team.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills — you'll be reviewing others' work and teaching, not just writing tests solo.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement our CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, including branch protection so tests must pass before merge
• Build integration and end-to-end test infrastructure (e.g., Testcontainers, Playwright or Cypress)
• Write and maintain automated tests for our most critical business flows, including approval workflows and financial/accounting data exports
• Define and enforce testing standards across the team, including deliberate failure-path and fault-injection testing
• Review pull requests for test coverage and quality on critical systems
• Establish and maintain a regression suite, plus smoke tests for post-deployment sanity checks
• Mentor our engineering team on writing effective unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Introduce security and performance/load testing as the team matures
• Report on testing health and coverage to engineering leadership

Skills

Automated testing

CI/CD

Test automation

Mentoring

Regression testing

Performance testing

Tools

GitHub Actions

Testcontainers

Playwright

Cypress

Job description

SUMO Services Corporation is seeking a senior Test Engineer to lead and expand automated testing across our engineering stack in Metro Manila. You will own tests for high-risk financial data flows, build scalable test infrastructure, and act as a quality gatekeeper on pull requests while uplifting the team’s testing capabilities.

The role is hands-on and requires you to implement an end-to-end testing strategy, including a full CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, and to mentor developers in