Software QA Engineer (12 months renewable)

2 days WFH

About the role

You'll own software reliability, test automation and continuous quality improvement across both conventional software components and agentic AI capabilities for an AI-powered document processing and case intelligence platform on AWS GCC built by a Singapore public sector agency. 12-month contract with an optional 12-month extension.

Key responsibilities

Collaborate with the 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 reaching 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

Perform time-boxed exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability issues

Maintain a stable regression test suite integrated into QA nightly builds

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 artefacts and test repositories to ensure clear tracking and reporting

About you

Minimum 4 years' relevant working experience

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

Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright or 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