Software Quality Engineer

About the role

Temus, a Temasek-backed consulting firm delivering digital transformation solutions for the private and public sectors, is hiring a Software Quality Engineer in Singapore. The role ensures software reliability, test automation and continuous quality improvement across the software development lifecycle, working with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Software Engineers and other system owners in an agile, DevOps-driven environment.

Key responsibilities

• Define user story acceptance criteria and design risk-based test strategies by analysing and decomposing complex software systems.
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks and a stable regression test suite integrated into nightly QA builds, prioritising critical functionality.
• Execute functional, regression, exploratory and performance tests, including time-boxed exploratory testing.
• Lead system integration testing and oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Manage the defect lifecycle, test artifacts and test repositories.
• Drive continuous improvement in agile testing practices and tools, and take on a secondary role as Application Performance Engineer or Application Security Engineer.

Required profile

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of test automation strategies and risk-based testing; experience designing test cases, plans and suites.
• Hands-on experience with manual and automated testing for web, mobile and API services, and familiarity with cross-browser, cross-platform and responsive UI testing.
• Experience in agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, XP) and shift-left testing.
• Comfortable working independently in multidisciplinary teams and willing to learn new tools and methodologies.

Required skills

• Test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright or Robot Framework.
• Test scripting in Python, Java, JavaScript or C#.
• CI/CD integration (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo).
• Defect tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Testing and scanning tools such as SonarQube, JMeter, K6, Grafana or LoadRunner.
• Containerized testing in Docker/Kubernetes environments.