Software Quality Engineer - P26007

United States Digital Space LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 78,120 - 111,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Wellness Program

Structured development framework

Learning & Development opportunities

Job summary

Activate is a leading technology consultancy based in Singapore, delivering mobile, web, and cloud solutions. We’re seeking a Quality Engineer to ensure software reliability, automate tests, and drive continuous quality improvements across lifecycle.

The role involves collaborating with product and development teams in an agile, DevOps-driven environment, maintaining regression suites, and expanding coverage to include security and performance testing where applicable.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and executing test cases, plans, and suites.
• Hands-on testing for web, mobile, and API services.
• Cross-browser, cross-platform, responsive UI testing.

Responsibilities

• Define clear user story acceptance criteria with Product Owners and BAs.
• Ensure automated test coverage and prevent defects in production.
• Design and execute comprehensive test suites (functional, regression, exploratory, performance).
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks; integrate into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead system integration testing and oversee UAT with stakeholders.

Skills

Test automation

Selenium

Playwright

Robot Framework

Cypress

Python

Java

CI/CD

Agile testing

Education

Certified Software Testing Professional (CSTP)

Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA)

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Robot Framework

Cypress

SikuliX

EggPlant

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

the company ("Activate") is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realize their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.

While this is not for an immediate opening, strong candidates will be prioritized as roles become available.

Please note that this will be a 12 months / 24 months fixed term contract role.

What You’ll Likely Work On and depending on project needs, you may:

The Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring software reliability, test automation, and continuous quality improvement across the software development lifecycle. The role requires strong analytical skills, test automation expertise, and collaboration with product and development teams to implement robust testing strategies. Engineers must work in an agile, DevOps-driven environment, ensuring fast feedback loops, risk-based testing, and high software quality.

• Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Analysts to define clear and actionable user story acceptance criteria.
• Work with Software Engineers to ensure automated test coverage and prevent bugs and defects in production.
• Analyze 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 User Acceptance Testing (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.

Requirements

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.

Test Automation & CI/CD Integration

• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Robot Framework, Cypress, SikuliX, or EggPlant.
• 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.

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 containerized testing in Docker/Kubernetes environments.

Security & Performance Testing (Added Advantage)

• Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, k6, Locust).
• Knowledge of application security testing (OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, SAST, DAST).
• Experience conducting API security testing using authentication protocols (OAuth, JWT).

Test Management & Certifications

• 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.

Benefits

What do we offer in return?

• Fun working environment
• Employee Wellness Program
• To work in Singapore Government Agencies projects
• We provide structured development framework and growth opportunities. (We are a "SHRI 2025 Gold winner" in "Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring")

Why you’ll love working with us?

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated and talented peers, we welcome you to join us. We provide all employees with equal opportunities to grow and develop with us. We believe your success is our success.

the company Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. the company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.

Protecting your privacy and the security of your data are longstanding top priorities for the company.

Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing the company's recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes.

Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.activate.sg/privacy-policy) to know more about how we collect, use, and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Here you can find how you can request for access, correction and/or withdrawal of your Personal Data.