Quality Engineer, Performance & Automation (1-year renewable contract)

Dear Applicant,

If you or someone you know is interested, please send the CV directly to [Confidential Information] (most preferred, as I may overlook some CVs due to the high volume).

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available at this time.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop performance test scripts and load profiles covering benchmark, stress, endurance, and volume testing.

• Execute performance testing to establish baselines, identify bottlenecks, and validate performance and scalability targets.

• Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to analyse results, optimise system performance, and verify improvements.

• Provision, configure, and manage performance testing environments throughout each testing cycle.

• Build and maintain automated test frameworks, UI tests, and API tests from the first sprint.

• Execute system, integration, and regression testing in line with the Test Lead's standards.

• Review test artefacts against user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure adequate coverage.

• Use AI tools to generate test scenarios and scripts, validating outputs before implementation.

• Maintain test cases, execution records, and defects in JIRA.

• Present performance results, bottlenecks, risks, and release-readiness assessments to stakeholders.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and testing teams, supporting cross-coverage across performance testing and automation.

Key Requirements

• 3 years of Software QA experience, including hands-on experience in performance engineering for enterprise web applications.

• Hands-on experience in test automation, including building frameworks from scratch.

• Strong experience with JMeter, Gatling, k6, or equivalent performance testing tools.

• Hands-on UI automation using Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or equivalent, plus API test automation.

• Experience with application profiling and bottleneck analysis across application, database, and infrastructure layers.

• Advanced SQL skills for data validation, backend verification, and performance investigation.

• Proficiency in JIRA for test management, execution tracking, and defect management.

• Strong understanding of system, integration, regression, and performance testing within Agile delivery.

• Ability to analyse results, troubleshoot issues, and validate performance improvements through subsequent test cycles.

• Experience managing test environments and coordinating testing within release schedules.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted test generation and the ability to validate generated outputs.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills, with hands-on capability across performance engineering and automation.

Desirable

• Experience with cloud monitoring and observability tools.

• Familiarity with Singapore Government on Commercial Cloud (GCC) or other Singapore Government cloud platforms.

• Exposure to enforcement, regulatory, licensing, or case management systems.