Software Quality Engineer (Fixed Term, 1 Year)

About the role

Activate Interactive, a technology consultancy in Singapore, is hiring a Software Quality Engineer for its Co-Development Business Unit, working with Singapore government agencies. This is a fixed-term contract of 1 year. The engineer ensures software reliability, test automation and continuous quality improvement across the software development lifecycle, within an agile, DevOps-driven environment.

Key responsibilities

• Work with Product Owners and Business Analysts to define user story acceptance criteria, and with Software Engineers to ensure automated test coverage.
• Analyse complex software systems to design risk-based test strategies.
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks and run functional, regression, exploratory and performance test suites.
• Maintain a stable regression suite in nightly builds, refine smoke tests in the CI environment, and lead system integration and UAT.
• Manage defects, test artifacts and repositories, and improve agile testing practices.
• Take a secondary role as Application Performance Engineer or Application Security Engineer.

Required profile

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• Certified Software Testing Professional (CSTP) and/or Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) is an advantage.

Required skills

• Test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Robot Framework, Cypress, SikuliX or EggPlant.
• Test scripting with Python, Java, JavaScript or C#.
• CI/CD integration (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo).
• Defect tracking tools such as JIRA, TestRail or Micro Focus ALM (QC/Sprinter).
• Manual and automated testing of web, mobile and API services, including cross-browser, cross-platform and responsive UI testing.

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 work arrangements (flexi-place, flexi-time, flexi-load).