Software Quality Engineer

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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.