Onsite Singapore | Senior Quality Engineer (Test Automation, Azure)

Role Description

• Level: Senior (5 years of experience)
• Working model: Onsite
• Location: Singapore
• Employment type: Official employee of Eastgate Software Singapore
• Duration: 1 year onsite (initial)
• Expected start date: ASAP
• Working hours: Full-time, Singapore office hours (Mon - Fri)
• English: Fluent

Responsibilities

• Own the quality engineering strategy, test architecture, quality gates and assurance plan.
• Translate business, market, operational, security and technical requirements into traceable acceptance criteria, test scenarios and measurable release-readiness evidence.
• Design and maintain a risk-based test approach covering platform deployment and operational-management capabilities.
• Build and maintain automated tests across the test pyramid: unit-enablement standards, API and contract tests, component and integration tests, UI tests and end-to-end business-flow tests.
• Validate cross-system and event-driven behaviour, including message sequencing, retries, duplicate handling, timeouts, degraded dependencies, data reconciliation and recovery from partial failures.
• Design test harnesses, simulators, stubs and representative datasets for external systems, IoT devices and distributed energy resources that are unavailable or unsafe for routine testing.
• Lead system integration testing and end-to-end validation across in-house and vendor-delivered components, Azure services, enterprise integrations and operational technology interfaces.
• Define and execute non-functional tests (performance, load, scalability, soak, resilience, failover, backup and restore, recovery, security and observability) with DevSecOps and SRE.
• Validate market and control workflows using deterministic scenarios, including bid creation, submission outcomes, dispatch/control instruction processing, asset response, telemetry feedback, exception handling and revenue/settlement reconciliation.
• Establish data-quality controls and tests for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, duplication, transformation and lineage across telemetry, asset, bidding and revenue data flows.
• Embed automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines with clear failure diagnostics, test evidence, defect traceability and release criteria.
• Lead defect triage, severity assessment, root-cause analysis and verification of permanent corrective actions; identify recurring defect patterns and drive preventive improvements.
• Provide independent release recommendations based on entry/exit criteria, residual risk, test evidence, known limitations and operational readiness; escalate material quality risks early.
• Work with product owners, planners, infrastructure, cybersecurity, vendors and engineers to resolve ambiguity and engineer quality into delivery rather than inspecting it only at the end.
• Create and maintain the test strategy, traceability matrix, automated regression suite, test-data approach, environment requirements, test reports, defect metrics, release-quality assessment and handover documentation.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience in quality engineering, software testing or test automation, including senior hands-on responsibility for complex production systems.
• Proven experience owning quality strategy and release assurance for cloud-native, distributed or integration-heavy applications.
• Strong practical experience designing and implementing automated API, integration, UI and end-to-end tests using modern test frameworks and programming or scripting languages.
• Ability to design tests for asynchronous and event-driven systems, including retries, ordering, duplicate events, eventual consistency and failure recovery.
• Experience validating REST APIs, messaging or streaming integrations, relational or document databases, and data-intensive workflows.
• Strong understanding of test environments, test-data management, service virtualisation, simulators, mocks and stubs for systems with constrained external dependencies.
• Working knowledge of secure software delivery and security testing: authentication, authorisation, input validation, secrets handling, dependency risk and vulnerability remediation.
• Ability to review vendor test evidence critically, identify coverage gaps and require corrective action without assuming the vendor's delivery accountability.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, able to explain quality risks, residual risk and release recommendations to engineering, project and management stakeholders.
• Comfort working in a regulated or operationally sensitive environment where auditability, traceability, data integrity and controlled release practices matter.

Nice to Have

• Proficiency with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST-assured, Postman/Newman, JMeter, k6 or equivalent.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools to generate, review and maintain test cases, automation code and documentation, with appropriate security and quality controls.
• Relevant testing, cloud or agile certifications.