AVP/VP, Test Engineer

SGX Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SGX Group in Singapore is hiring a Senior Test Engineer across multiple domains with in-house and vendor build platforms. You will translate SGX’s quality vision into scalable automation capabilities, governance frameworks, and release confidence.

You will lead and develop junior test engineers, ensure consistent tools, processes and reporting, and drive responsible AI adoption to improve productivity and resilience across the delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Quality Engineering or Software Testing
• Proven leadership in large testing teams
• Automation-first delivery and risk-based coverage
• Own governance across multiple teams and programmes
• Strong executive communication

Responsibilities

• Define and lead enterprise test and quality strategy across products and platforms.
• Oversee scalable automation platforms and engineering practices.
• Govern quality operating frameworks, data strategy, control traceability, release quality gates, and execution standards.

Skills

Automation

Test Strategy

Leadership

Quality Engineering

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Tosca

Playwright

Esprow

Claude Code

GitHub Actions

AWS CodeBuild

Job description

SGX is hiring Senior Test Engineers in multiple domains, each covering several in-house and vendor build platforms. In collaboration with the wider test team, the candidate translates SGX’s quality vision into scalable automation capabilities, governance frameworks, delivery guardrails, and leadership that strengthen release confidence, operational resilience, and risk management. As a Senior Test Engineer, the candidate develops junior test engineers, ensures consistent tools, processes and reporting across domains, and advances responsible AI adoption to improve engineering productivity, team effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

Job description:

Job Summary

SGX is hiring Senior Test Engineers in multiple domains, each covering several in-house and vendor build platforms. In collaboration with the wider test team, the candidate translates SGX’s quality vision into scalable automation capabilities, governance frameworks, delivery guardrails, and leadership that strengthen release confidence, operational resilience, and risk management. As a Senior Test Engineer, the candidate develops junior test engineers, ensures consistent tools, processes and reporting across domains, and advances responsible AI adoption to improve engineering productivity, team effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

Job Responsibilities

• Together with the wider test team, define and lead the enterprise test and quality engineering strategy across multiple products, platforms, and transformation programmes, with accountability for quality outcomes, delivery assurance, and risk-based test coverage.
• Oversee, define, and continuously enhance scalable automation platforms, standards, and engineering practices spanning functional, API, integration, performance, and resilience testing.
• In collaboration with the wider test team, improve and govern quality operating frameworks, including test methodology, test data strategy, control traceability, release quality gates, and execution standards.
• Together with the wider test team regularly re-evaluate testing tools against best practices, cloud-based test infrastructure, observability, and AI-enabled engineering practices to improve productivity, defect prevention, and feedback loops across the delivery lifecycle.
• Provide clear executive-level visibility of quality performance, delivery risks, workforce capability, and investment priorities.

Job Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or related disciplines, including at least 5 years in leadership roles managing large-scale testing or quality engineering organisations.
• Develop thorough, well-structured test scenarios that maximize coverage and minimize risk of undetected defects.
• Deep expertise in modern quality engineering principles, including automation-first delivery, platform consistency, risk-based coverage, and enterprise-scale testing practices.
• Proven track record of owning quality outcomes and leading test governance across multiple teams or programmes, including test architecture reviews, automation standards, quality gates, and defect governance.
• Strong people leadership experience, with demonstrated success in leading high-performing teams, and coaching practitioners.
• Advanced expertise in modern test automation, performance engineering, and test data tooling, including technologies such as Claude Code or similar AI tools, Tosca, Playwright and Esprow.
• Open mindset and eager to improve existing processes to boost productivity in collaboration with others
• Customer driven mindset, looking beyond requirements and contributing to great products
• Hands-on experience implementing cloud-based test infrastructure and CI/CD quality controls using platforms such as GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild.
• Practical understanding of AI-enabled engineering practices.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and articulate quality risks, trade-offs, and investment priorities in a clear and credible manner.
• Domain Knowledge (Good to Have): Exposure to financial market infrastructure, including securities and derivatives trading, clearing, settlement, market operations, or exchange-related systems.