Test Manager [Automation | Playwright | ASAP Starter]

NCS Philippines; Taguig; Hybrid; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS Philippines in Taguig, Metro Manila seeks a Test Manager to lead functional and automated testing efforts. You will define strategies, review requirements for testability, and track testing progress across projects.

The role emphasizes manual and automated testing, defect management, and ensuring timely, quality deliverables. The ideal candidate has 3–5 years in test management, strong knowledge of MySQL, PHP/Java, HTML/CSS/JS, and hands-on experience with Playwright or similar tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering or related field.
• 3–5 years experience as a Test Manager with test planning.
• Experience in manual and automated testing (Selenium/WebDriver or TestComplete).
• Defect reporting and monitoring expertise; strong test strategy skills.

Responsibilities

• Defines functional and automated test strategy for projects.
• Reviews business requirements and design for testability.
• Tracks testing activities, results, coverage and defects.
• Maintains testing documents and artifacts; issues SQA certificates.
• Performs test strategy and test case reviews; manages SQA deployment.
• Provides status reports to project managers and stakeholders.
• Participates in risk analysis and resource estimation for SQA tasks.
• Ensures team deliverables meet quality, time, and budget targets.

Skills

Playwright

Automation and Manual

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

TestComplete

Job description

MAIN Requirements:

• Playwright

• Automation and Manual

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Defines the appropriate Functional and Automated Test Strategy for the project.

• Participates in reviewing the business user and product requirements, and application design to ensure testability of the product.

• Tracks and reports testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, and others.

• Ensures content and structure of all testing documents are documented and maintained.

• Issues SQA Certificate to signify or prove that the application is in defect-free status.

• Performs Test Strategy and Test Cases Review.

• Handles and manages SQA stage deployment and repositories.

• Provides an accurate status report to the project manager.

• Participates in SQA Task Estimation and Risk Analysis on Technical/Project Proposals.

• Reviews the quality of the team deliverables and ensuring team tasks are completed on time and budget.

• Oversees and manages all SQA deliverables for each project.

• Formulates and manages initiatives to increase the skills, quality & efficiency of the team.

• Participate in process standardization and/or improvement on SQA related tasks.

• Other job-related activities that may be assigned from time to time.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

• Education – At least graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or any related course.

• Related Work Experience – At least 3-5 years of experience as a Test Manager.

  • Extensive experience in Test Cases Creation and Analysis.

  • Extensive experience in Manual (black box, white box, etc.) and Automated testing (Selemium Web driver, Test Complete, or desired tools).

  • Extensive experience in defect reporting and monitoring.

• Knowledge – In-depth knowledge in the following:

  • Extensive knowledge in database skills mainly in MySQL. Another database server is a plus.

  • Extensive knowledge in programming languages like PHP and Java is a plus.

  • Extensive knowledge in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus.

  • Extensive knowledg in Agile Methodologies.