Testing Center Architect (For Pooling)

UnionBank; Pasig; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

UnionBank seeks a Testing Center Architect to lead testing across IT projects, ensuring quality, reliability, and timely delivery at UnionBank Plaza, Ortigas, Pasig City. The role focuses on test strategy, automation, test environments, and best practices in collaboration with business and IT teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software testing and 3+ years in a lead or architect capacity, with experience supporting Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Testing / Quality Engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a Test Lead, QA Lead, Test Manager, Senior QE, or Test Architect capacity.
• Experience supporting Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD delivery models.
• Exposure to Test Automation Frameworks, API Testing, Data Quality testing, and NFTs (Security and Performance Tests).
• Exposure to Test Management tools (Jira, HP ALM, etc.).
• Testing Certifications (preferred).
• Experience supporting multiple agile squads, tribes, or product domains and translating solution architecture into test strategies and quality risk assessments (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Deliver testing across IT projects by understanding effort through requirements analysis.
• Estimate and manage effort, time, resources, and budget for testing.
• Coordinate with business and ITSG units for project testing assessments and kickoff.
• Monitor new requirements and escalate issues to stakeholders and supervisor.
• Attend client calls and discuss status and RAIDs.
• Ensure timely delivery of testing milestones.
• Prepare/update metrics dashboards at phase end or project completion.
• Manage partners' tasks and deliverables, ensuring adherence to standards and best practices.
• Define test strategy for testing frameworks and automation.
• Coordinate hardware/software requirements for test setup.
• Ensure testing documents/artifacts are complete and approved.
• Design test environments and automation approaches.
• Provide guidance on test design techniques and types of testing (performance, security).
• Create test data strategies and coordinate testing with release processes.

Skills

Test Leadership

Test Automation

Agile/DevOps

CI/CD

Performance Testing

Security Testing

Tools

Jira

HP ALM

Job description

Job Title: Testing Center Architect

Office Location: UnionBank Plaza, Ortigas, Pasig City

Employment Type: Probationary

About The Role

The Testing Center Architect is responsible for leading and overseeing testing activities across IT projects, ensuring quality, reliability, and timely delivery. The role provides expertise in test strategy, automation, test environments, and technical testing while coordinating with business, IT teams, and partners to ensure adherence to testing standards and best practices.

What You'll Do

• Accountable to deliver the testing of products/services across UBP IT projects by understanding the effort through requirements analysis.
• Estimate and manage the effort, time, resources, and budget required to perform the testing.
• Responsible for the coordination and collaboration with business and other ITSG units for the assessment of projects and Service requests that require testing and organizing the testing kick-off meeting.
• Monitors and tracks new requirements/change in requirements and escalates any issues to appropriate stakeholders and to his supervisor.
• Attend the regular client call and discuss status and RAIDs with client.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepares/updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.
• Manages the partners' tasks and deliverables and ensures that they have sufficient work and industry standards and best practices are adhered to:
• Define the strategy.
• Develop the test plan, dependencies, mitigations, and contingencies for identified risks.
• Coordinate the hardware and software requirements for the test setup.
• Ensure content and structure of all testing documents/artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Check/review and provide approval on all test deliverables.
• Designing test frameworks for test automation and testing in general.
• Directing and coordinating the implementation of test automation and other test tools.
• Designing test environments.
• Providing guidance on the selection of the most effective test design techniques in a given situation.
• Providing guidance on technical types of testing such as performance testing and security testing.
• Designing methods for the creation of test data.
• Coordinating testing with release processes.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of Software Testing / Quality Engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a Test Lead, QA Lead, Test Manager, Senior QE, or Test Architect capacity.
• Experience supporting Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD delivery models.
• Exposure to Test Automation Frameworks, API Testing, Data Quality testing, and NFTs (Security and Performance Tests).
• Exposure to Test Management tools (Jira, HP ALM, etc.).
• Testing Certifications (preferred).
• Experience supporting multiple agile squads, tribes, or product domains and translating solution architecture into test strategies and quality risk assessments (preferred).