Automation Software Tester (15 months contract)

NEUTRON PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NEUTRON PTE. LTD.

is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer on a 12-month contract to own software reliability, test automation and continuous quality improvement for an AI-powered document processing and case intelligence platform on AWS GCC. You will lead automation strategies across web, mobile and API services, implement robust test suites, and drive cross-system QA activities throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' relevant working experience.
• Strong knowledge of test automation strategies and risk-based testing.
• Experience designing and executing test cases, test plans and test suites.
• Hands-on testing for web, mobile and API services.
• Familiarity with cross-browser, cross-platform and responsive UI testing.
• Experience defining and executing structured evaluation criteria for agentic AI systems.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright or Cypress.
• Knowledge of test scripting and automation programming using Python, Java, JavaScript or C#.
• Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo).
• Ability to design maintainable, scalable and reusable test automation suites.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the business owner and business consultant to define clear and actionable user story acceptance criteria.
• Work with backend engineers to ensure automated test coverage.
• Analyse and decompose complex software systems to design holistic, risk-based test strategies.
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks using industry-standard tools.
• Design, implement and execute comprehensive test suites covering functional, regression, exploratory and performance testing.
• Perform time-boxed exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability issues.
• Maintain a stable regression test suite integrated into QA nightly builds.
• Lead system integration testing with other system owners to validate cross-system interactions.
• Oversee UAT, coordinating with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met.
• Manage the defect lifecycle, test artefacts and test repositories to ensure clear tracking and reporting.

Skills

Test automation

Risk-based testing

Test planning

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

CI/CD integration

Python

Java

JavaScript

C#

API testing

Manual testing

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Bamboo

Job description

About the role

You'll own software reliability, test automation and continuous quality improvement across both conventional software components and agentic AI capabilities for an AI-powered document processing and case intelligence platform on AWS GCC built by a Singapore public sector agency. 12-month contract with an optional 12-month extension.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with the business owner and business consultant to define clear and actionable user story acceptance criteria
• Work with backend engineers to ensure automated test coverage and prevent bugs and defects reaching production
• Analyse and decompose complex software systems to design holistic, risk-based test strategies
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks using industry-standard tools
• Design, implement and execute comprehensive test suites covering functional, regression, exploratory and performance testing
• Perform time-boxed exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability issues
• Maintain a stable regression test suite integrated into QA nightly builds
• Lead system integration testing with other system owners to validate cross-system interactions
• Oversee UAT, coordinating with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met
• Manage the defect lifecycle, test artefacts and test repositories to ensure clear tracking and reporting

About you

• Minimum 5 years' relevant working experience
• Strong knowledge of test automation strategies and risk-based testing
• Experience designing and executing test cases, test plans and test suites
• Hands-on experience with manual and automated testing for web, mobile and API services
• Familiarity with cross-browser, cross-platform and responsive UI testing
• Experience defining and executing structured evaluation criteria for agentic AI systems
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright or Cypress
• Knowledge of test scripting and automation programming using Python, Java, JavaScript or C#
• Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo)
• Ability to design maintainable, scalable and reusable test automation suites