Software Test Automation Engineer

Role Overview
Temus was established by Temasek in partnership with UST, to provide digital transformation solutions for the private and public sectors as we aspire to be a strategic partner in realising the Singapore Government’s Smart Nation vision. We are headquartered in Singapore and have more than 400 employees across a wide range of disciplines in strategy, design, architecture, technology, data & AI.
Responsibilities
The role is responsible for ensuring software reliability, test automation, and continuous quality improvement across the software development lifecycle. The role requires strong analytical skills, test automation expertise, and collaboration with product and development teams to implement robust testing strategies. Engineers must work in an agile, DevOps-driven environment, ensuring fast feedback loops, risk-based testing, and high software quality. The ideal candidate should be passionate about leveraging AI to transform quality assurance practices and drive innovation in testing methodologies.
Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Analysts to define clear and actionable user story acceptance criteria.
Work with Software Engineers to ensure automated test coverage and prevent bugs and defects in production.
Analyze and decompose complex software systems to design holistic, risk-based test strategies.
Develop and maintain test automation frameworks using industry-standard tools.
Design, implement, and execute comprehensive test suites covering functional, regression, exploratory, and performance testing.
Take a risk-based approach to test automation, prioritizing critical functionality for maximum impact.
Perform time-boxed exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability issues.
Maintain a stable regression test suite integrated into QA nightly builds.
Continuously refine smoke tests in the Development Cl environment for early issue detection.
Lead system integration testing with other system owners to validate cross-system interactions.
Oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT), coordinating with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met.
Manage the defect lifecycle, test artifacts, and test repositories to ensure clear tracking and reporting.
Drive continuous improvement in agile testing practices, tools, and methodologies.
Experience working with testing and scanning tools such as Playwright, Robot Frameworks, SonarQube, JMeter, K6 Grafana, or LoadRunner.
Qualifications and Requirements
Minimum 5 years of experience in software QA/ Testing related role with exposure to both manual & automation testing
Strong knowledge of test automation strategies and risk-based testing.
Experience designing and executing test cases, test plans, and test suites.
Hands-on experience with manual and automated testing for web, mobile, and API services.
Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Robot Framework.
Knowledge of test scripting and automation programming using Python, Java, JavaScript, or C#.
Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo).
Ability to design maintainable, scalable, and reusable test automation suites.
Strong understanding of agile testing methodologies, including TDD, BDD, and exploratory testing.
Experience working in agile development environments (Scrum, Kanban, XP).
Familiarity with shift-left testing approaches, ensuring early defect detection.
Experience with containerized testing in Docker/Kubernetes environments.
Experience managing defect tracking and test repositories using tools such as JIRA
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