Software QA Engineer (12 months renewable)

Salary: $6,000 – $6,500 per month

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