We're Hiring: Software Quality Engineer!
We are looking for a detail-oriented Software Quality Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance, with strong analytical skills and a passion for delivering high-quality products. Join us in ensuring our applications meet the highest standards!
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Work Mode: Work from Office
Role: Software Quality Engineer
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with 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 in 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;
- Take a risk-based approach to test automation, prioritizing critical functionality for maximum impact;
- Perform time-boxed exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability issues;
- Maintain a stable regression test suite integrated into QA nightly builds;
- Continuously refine smoke tests in the Development CI environment for early issue detection;
- 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 artifacts, and test repositories to ensure clear tracking and reporting;
- Drive continuous improvement in agile testing practices, tools, and methodologies;
- Take on a secondary role as an Application Performance Engineer or Application Security Engineer to expand testing coverage beyond functional aspects;
- Assist in product development where relevant; and
- Design agentic AI evaluation testing to cover output accuracy and agent-level behaviour
Required Experience & Skills
Mandatory – Core Testing Expertise
- 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.
Mandatory – Test Automation & CI/CD Integration
- Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, 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.
Mandatory – Agile & DevOps Testing Practices
- Strong understanding of agile testing methodologies, including TDD, BDD, and exploratory testing.
- Experience working in agile development environments (Scrum, Kanban, XP).
- Familiarity with shift-left testing approaches, ensuring early defect detection.
- Experience with containerised testing in Docker/Kubernetes environments.
Mandatory – Test Management & Certifications
- Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines.
- Experience managing defect tracking and test repositories using tools such as JIRA, TestRail, Micro Focus ALM (QC/Sprinter).
- Certified Software Testing Professional (CSTP) and/or Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) is an advantage.
Added Advantage
- Legal regulatory domain familiarity: Working knowledge on legal, enforcement or insolvency workflows to understand user journeys and engage credibly with MED and DRS stakeholders.
- GCC test environment constraints.
- Prior experience testing applications on OutSystems platform.