Software Quality Engineer($5000)

Tap Growth ai; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tap Growth ai in Singapore is seeking a detail-oriented Software Quality Engineer with at least 2 years of experience in testing and QA, to help ensure our applications meet the highest standards.

You will collaborate with backend engineers, define acceptance criteria, develop test automation, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines while expanding coverage to AI components.

Qualifications

• Hands-on testing for web, mobile, and API services with automated coverage.
• Strong risk-based testing approach and ability to define acceptance criteria.
• Experience in QA across UI, API, and performance testing.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with owners and consultants to define clear user story acceptance criteria.
• Ensure automated test coverage with backend engineers to prevent production defects.
• Design and execute comprehensive test suites for functional, regression, exploratory, and performance testing.
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks and CI/CD integrations.
• Lead UAT coordination with stakeholders to align with business requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in agile testing, tools, and practices.
• Explore additional testing coverage, including AI evaluation testing for agentic systems.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

Manual testing

Web testing

Mobile testing

API testing

Cross-browser testing

Python

JavaScript

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

JIRA

TestRail

Education

Degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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

JD: 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.