Software Quality Engineer

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd (“Activate”) is a leading technology consultancy headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our clients are empowered with quality, cost-effective, and impactful end-to-end application development, like mobile and web applications, and cloud technology that remove technology roadblocks and increase their business efficiency.

We believe in positively impacting the lives of people around us and the environment we live in through the use of technology. Hence, we are committed to providing a conducive environment for all employees to realise their full potential, who in turn have the opportunity to continuously drive innovation.

We are searching for our next team members to join our growing team.

If you love the idea of being part of a growing company with exciting prospects in mobile and web technologies that create positive impact on people’s lives, then we would love to hear from you.

This posting is part of our Talent Pipeline Initiative—we’re proactively connecting with talent who are interested in future opportunities with us over the next 3–6 months.

While this is not for an immediate opening, strong candidates will be prioritised as roles become available.

What You’ll Likely Work On and depending on project needs, you may:

• The Quality Engineer 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.
• 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 CI 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.
• Take on a secondary role as an Application Performance Engineer or Application Security Engineer to expand testing coverage beyond functional aspects.