Software QA Engineer (12 months renewable)

2 days WFH About the role You'll own software reliability, test automation and continuous quality improvement across both conventional software components and agentic AI capabilities for an AI-powered document processing and case intelligence platform on AWS GCC built by a Singapore public sector agency. 12-month contract with an optional 12-month extension. Key responsibilities • Collaborate with the business owner and business consultant to define clear and actionable user story acceptance criteria • Work with backend engineers to ensure automated test coverage and prevent bugs and defects reaching production • Analyse 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 • Perform time-boxed exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability issues • Maintain a stable regression test suite integrated into QA nightly builds • Lead system integration testing with other system owners to validate cross-system interactions • Oversee UAT, coordinating with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met • Manage the defect lifecycle, test artefacts and test repositories to ensure clear tracking and reporting About you • Minimum 4 years' relevant working experience • 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 • Familiarity with cross-browser, cross-platform and responsive UI testing • Experience defining and executing structured evaluation criteria for agentic AI systems • Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright or Cypress • 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