Test Lead – Cards & API Automation Champion

Quess Philippines Corp.; Taguig; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Quess Philippines Corp. is seeking an experienced QA Automation/Test Lead to design detailed test plans and drive SIT/UAT across CMS, internal systems, and third-party apps. You will coordinate Visa certification testing using Visa simulator and ensure full coverage of card-issuing workflows.

The role requires strong API testing, SQL validation, and hands-on automation using Playwright or Katalon Studio, with the ability to guide junior testers and coordinate with business and tech teams.

Qualifications

• Experience creating test cases from BRDs, FSDs and API specs.
• Strong end-to-end knowledge of card processing flows and Visa-related domains.
• Proven ability to lead small testing teams and coordinate with business and technical groups.

Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed test plans, scenarios, cases and execution schedules forCards areas and integrations.
• Lead SIT or UAT execution across CMS, internal systems, third-party apps, APIs and batch interfaces.
• Execute and coordinate Visa certification testing using Visa simulator, including data readiness and issue tracking.
• Review requirements, interface specs, file layouts and API contracts for complete coverage.
• Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, retesting and regression planning for assigned workstreams.
• Guide Test Analysts, Senior Testers and Junior Testers on execution quality and domain knowledge.
• Create and maintain automation scripts or guide automation using Playwright or Katalon Studio for regression scenarios.
• Report test progress, risks, blockers and quality observations to Test Manager.

Skills

BPC SmartVista

Card Issuing domain

ISO 8583

API testing

Automation testing

SQL checks

Postman Swagger

JIRA/ALM/Azure DevOps

Tools

Playwright

Katalon Studio

Selenium

Postman

Swagger

SQL tooling

Job description

Quess Philippines Corp. is seeking an experienced QA Automation/Test Lead to design detailed test plans and drive SIT/UAT across CMS, internal systems, and third-party apps. You will coordinate Visa certification testing using Visa simulator and ensure full coverage of card-issuing workflows.

The role requires strong API testing, SQL validation, and hands-on automation using Playwright or Katalon Studio, with the ability to guide junior testers and coordinate with business and tech teams.