Senior QA Engineer: FinTech Automation & Data Testing

encora technologies pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

encora technologies pte. ltd. in Singapore seeks an experienced Senior Software Quality Engineer to drive testing across FinTech and regulatory software. You will lead test planning, design, manual testing, and automation for applications, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines.

The role requires strong QA skills, collaboration within an Agile team, and responsibility for test plans, data, and release readiness. Proficiency in Cypress, Selenium, API testing, SQL, and CI/CD tooling is expected.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in software quality assurance, including manual testing and test automation.
• Proven experience testing FinTech, financial services, or regulatory workflow applications.
• Strong understanding of test design techniques, testing methodologies, and defect management processes.
• Practical experience developing automated tests using Cypress and/or Selenium.
• Experience testing REST APIs and microservices-based applications.
• Strong SQL skills and experience in data or ETL testing.
• Working knowledge of Java and/or Python for test automation and validation.
• Experience working within Agile software development teams.
• Familiarity with test management and issue-tracking tools such as TestRail and Jira.
• Experience using Git and working with build and CI/CD tools such as Maven and Jenkins.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage testing priorities, and provide technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify testing requirements and ensure adequate test coverage.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, and test data.
• Apply test design principles to cover functional requirements, boundary conditions, negative scenarios, and business-critical workflows.
• Perform functional, regression, system, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Identify, document, track, and retest defects, working closely with developers and business stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Report testing progress, quality risks, defect trends, and release readiness.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test suites using Cypress, Selenium, and relevant testing frameworks.
• Perform API and microservices integration testing, including validation of service interactions and error handling.
• Develop automated API tests using REST Assured or equivalent tools.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, and Git.
• Investigate automated test failures and improve the reliability and maintainability of test suites.
• Execute cross-browser tests using Browser Stack, where required.
• Validate data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and integrity across source and target systems.
• Develop SQL queries to verify data transformations, reconciliation results, and ETL processing.
• Test data workflows involving Snowflake and associated data platforms.
• Use Python, where appropriate, to support test data preparation and automated data validation.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to QA team members.
• Review test cases and automation code, and promote consistent testing practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation efficiency, and overall software quality.

Skills

Test planning

Test design

Manual testing

Test automation

Agile testing

Mentoring

Quality assurance

Tools

Cypress

Selenium

REST Assured

BrowserStack

Git

Maven

Jenkins

TestRail

Jira

Snowflake

AWS

Cucumber

TestNG

Job description

encora technologies pte. ltd. in Singapore seeks an experienced Senior Software Quality Engineer to drive testing across FinTech and regulatory software. You will lead test planning, design, manual testing, and automation for applications, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines.

The role requires strong QA skills, collaboration within an Agile team, and responsibility for test plans, data, and release readiness. Proficiency in Cypress, Selenium, API testing, SQL, and CI/CD tooling is expected.