Software Quality Engineer (Associate Consultant / Consultant) Minlaw

KOPI RECRUIT PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kopi Recruit PTE. LTD. is seeking a Software Quality Engineer to own reliability across the AI Platform, implement test automation, and drive continuous quality improvements in an Agile/DevOps context.

The role covers functional, integration, security, performance, and AI-quality testing, with opportunities to expand into Application Performance or Security testing and to work with AWS CI/CD workflows in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of test automation strategies and risk-based testing.
• Experience designing and executing test cases, test plans, and test suites.
• Hands-on testing for web, mobile, and API services.
• Familiarity with cross-browser, cross-platform and responsive UI testing.
• Experience defining evaluation criteria for agentic AI systems.

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

Skills

Test automation

Risk-based testing

Test case design

Manual testing

API testing

Web & mobile testing

Agentic AI testing

CI/CD integration

Cross-browser testing

OutSystems testing

Education

Bachelor—CS/CS Engineering/IT

Diploma in Computer/Electronics Engineering

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Job description

Role Summary

The Software Quality Engineer is responsible for software reliability, test automation and continuous quality improvement across the AI Platform. The role shall define and execute testing approaches covering both conventional software components and agentic AI capabilities, including functional, integration, security, performance and AI-quality testing.

The Software Quality Engineer shall demonstrate proficiency in:

• a)testing agentic AI and document-processing solutions;
• b)testing cloud-native solutions deployed on AWS GCC;
• c)testing secure APIs and enterprise integrations;
• d)designing and implementing automated test frameworks and CI/CD quality gates;
• e)testing systems handling legally sensitive and personal data; and
• f)working in Agile and DevOps-driven teams using risk-based testing and fast feedback loops.
• g)Experience testing on OutSystems Platform will be advantageous.

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.

Skill Level:

• Associate Consultant to Consultant