Software Quality Engineer

Unison Consulting

  • Singapore
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 1 day ago
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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
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.

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