Software Quality Engineer (Automation & API Testing)

About the role

Activate Interactive, a technology consultancy in Singapore, is hiring a QA Engineer for its Co-Development Business Unit. This is a fixed-term contract of 1 year. The role owns the testing strategy, automated regression testing, API testing, functional testing, UAT support and release quality assurance for a cloud-based digital platform, with an automation-first approach.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare test strategy, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test data and regression test packs.
• Build and maintain automated regression test suites for critical user journeys.
• Prepare UAT test scenarios, support business users during UAT and verify production readiness.
• Conduct regression testing, smoke testing and release validation before deployment.

Required profile

• At least 3-4 years of QA experience, with strong hands-on automation testing experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing end-to-end QA automation frameworks, integrating automated testing tools with CI/CD pipelines and test reporting platforms, and automated quality gates.
• Ability to design clear functional, regression, integration and negative test cases.
• Ability to run automated tests in CI/CD pipelines, interpret test reports and understand authentication, authorisation, access control and security regression testing.
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools.

Required skills

• Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or equivalent for automation.
• Postman, Newman, REST Assured or equivalent for API testing.
• Basic SQL for test data validation.
• Agile testing within sprint delivery.

What we offer

• Competitive market salary and a variable performance bonus.
• Medical coverage, life and health insurance, and flexible benefits or allowance.
• Wellness support, learning programmes, certification support and a staff development budget.
• Structured career pathways and a competency framework.
• Flexible place, time and load arrangements.