Senior AQA Engineer

Region: APAC

Country: Malaysia, India, Indonesia, and Philippines

Type: Fully remote

What's the Project?

Newfire Global Partners is a leading technology firm that specializes in building transformative software solutions for some of the world’s most innovative companies. With a presence across four continents, Newfire Global brings deep expertise in digital healthcare, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise technology. The firm’s track record of delivering scalable, high-impact solutions has made it a trusted partner for organizations seeking to drive meaningful change through technology.

We are passionate about the purpose-driven mission to help improve the quality of care for patients and are building a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. We are a fully funded company founded by serial entrepreneurs with a stable client base.

Newfire Global Partners, a leader in developing disruptive healthcare technology, collaborates with Fortune 500 companies and start-ups to drive transformation.

Opportunity for impact

Newfire is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer.

Our client is dedicated to helping students and colleges make informed choices because let’s face it, navigating your educational path can feel overwhelming. They believe in making that process easier, faster, and way more accessible for everyone involved.

The QA Automation Engineer is responsible for designing and executing overall automation testing strategy for a broad range of applications and platforms. This individual will drive overall testing strategy with the proper mix of business knowledge and technical leadership. Planning activities involve working closely with architects and technical leads to define the long-term strategy for repeatable and scalable automation testing activities within the organization. Duties also include creating quality standards for products and testing systems for efficiency, reliability and performance.

You’re a perfect match if you have:

Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline, or its equivalent plus 2 years of related experience. Alternatively, will accept a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline plus 5 years related experience, in lieu of a master’s degree.
7+ years of experience in functional, non-functional, regression and acceptance testing.
7+ years of hands-on experience in QA automation tools such as Selenium.
Should have strong experience in JAVA programming language.
Ability to work independently or in a team environment on multiple projects.
Knowledge of Agile and JIRA.
Experience in 508 accessibility and performance testing.
Experience in SQL scripting relational databases, Unit testing of Web applications
Excellent understanding of DB and behavior driven testing is required for this role.
Experience in working with software specifications and documentation.
Experience in breaking the system and thinking out of the box while doing functional testing.
Thorough process knowledge on all phases of Agile and software releases.
Excellent analytical, debugging, planning, organizational and communication skills.
Detail-oriented and comfortable working with developers, product owners and other project stakeholders.
Should have worked in an onsite offshore model.
Should understand selenium tests and cucumber feature files and should be able to understand system and console logs.
Should have experience in writing UI and API level automated tests.
Should have experience with continuous integration environment such as Jenkins and Travis.

Your day-to-day activities:

Organize and manage QA automation test design and implementation tasks on a project.
Participate in requirements discussions and identify requirements that may be missing, wrong, or lack clarity.
Develop and execute tests for end-to-end scenarios, reported customer facing issues, and other externally initiated sources.
Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases for integration runs.
Conduct and report on analysis of test results and coverage factors.
Ensure proper communication occurs with the project teams on test status, issues and risk to deployment.
Work with development and project management to troubleshoot issues, manage change and mitigate risk.
Ensure test cases are appropriately structured for automation execution when applicable.
Work with automation to incorporate new functionality into the automation test suite.
Provide guidance to Associate Engineers to execute test sets assigned to them, develop their own, and effective defect reporting.

Ready to dive in?

Sarah Chin
Recruiter

Asia/Kuala_Lumpur

sarah.chin@newfireglobal.com

Hiring Process

Here's what you can expect during our hiring process.

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Applied

Stage 2

Shortlist

Stage 3

Review

Stage 4

Interview

Stage 5

Technical Interview

Stage 6

CSM Interview

Stage 7

Client Interview

Stage 8

Verbal offer

Stage 9

Offer Letter

Stage 10

Background Check

Stage 11

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