Quality Engineer, Performance & Automation (1-year renewable contract)

Evolution Recruitment Solutions Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Evolution Recruitment Solutions Pte Ltd is seeking a Performance QA Engineer to drive end-to-end performance testing for enterprise web apps. You will develop scripts, build frameworks, and coordinate with product, engineering, and infra teams to ensure release readiness.

The role requires hands-on automation across UI and API tests, strong SQL data validation, and experience with JIRA for defect tracking. Collaboration across Agile teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 3 years of Software QA experience with performance engineering for enterprise web apps.
• Hands-on test automation experience and building frameworks from scratch.
• Strong experience with JMeter, Gatling, k6 or equivalent performance tools.
• UI automation using Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress; API test automation.
• Experience with profiling and bottleneck analysis across app, DB, and infra.
• Advanced SQL skills for data validation and backend checks.
• Proficiency with JIRA for test management and defect tracking.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance test scripts and load profiles for benchmarks and stress tests.
• Execute performance testing to establish baselines and validate targets.
• Collaborate with engineering and infra to analyse results and optimise performance.
• Provision and manage performance testing environments across cycles.
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks, UI and API tests.
• Execute system, integration, and regression testing per Test Lead's standards.
• Review artefacts against user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Use AI tools to generate test scenarios and validate outputs.
• Maintain test cases, execution records, and defects in JIRA.
• Present results and risks to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product and testing teams for cross-coverage.

Skills

Performance engineering

Test automation

SQL for validation

Agile delivery

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Tools

JMeter

Gatling

k6

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

API testing tools

JIRA

Job description

Dear Applicant,

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available at this time.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop performance test scripts and load profiles covering benchmark, stress, endurance, and volume testing.

• Execute performance testing to establish baselines, identify bottlenecks, and validate performance and scalability targets.

• Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to analyse results, optimise system performance, and verify improvements.

• Provision, configure, and manage performance testing environments throughout each testing cycle.

• Build and maintain automated test frameworks, UI tests, and API tests from the first sprint.

• Execute system, integration, and regression testing in line with the Test Lead’s standards.

• Review test artefacts against user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure adequate coverage.

• Use AI tools to generate test scenarios and scripts, validating outputs before implementation.

• Maintain test cases, execution records, and defects in JIRA.

• Present performance results, bottlenecks, risks, and release-readiness assessments to stakeholders.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and testing teams, supporting cross‑coverage across performance testing and automation.

Key Requirements

• 3 years of Software QA experience, including hands‑on experience in performance engineering for enterprise web applications.

• Hands‑on experience in test automation, including building frameworks from scratch.

• Strong experience with JMeter, Gatling, k6, or equivalent performance testing tools.

• Hands‑on UI automation using Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or equivalent, plus API test automation.

• Experience with application profiling and bottleneck analysis across application, database, and infrastructure layers.

• Advanced SQL skills for data validation, backend verification, and performance investigation.

• Proficiency in JIRA for test management, execution tracking, and defect management.

• Strong understanding of system, integration, regression, and performance testing within Agile delivery.

• Ability to analyse results, troubleshoot issues, and validate performance improvements through subsequent test cycles.

• Experience managing test environments and coordinating testing within release schedules.

• Familiarity with AI‑assisted test generation and the ability to validate generated outputs.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills, with hands‑on capability across performance engineering and automation.

Desirable

• Experience with cloud monitoring and observability tools.

• Familiarity with Singapore Government on Commercial Cloud (GCC) or other Singapore Government cloud platforms.

• Exposure to enforcement, regulatory, licensing, or case management systems.