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.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

• 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 with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright,
• Robot Framework, Cypress, SikuliX, or EggPlant.
• 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.
• Agile & DevOps Testing Practices:
• 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.
• Security & Performance Testing (Added Advantage):
• Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, k6, Locust).
• Knowledge of application security testing (OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, SAST, DAST).
• Experience conducting API security testing using authentication protocols (OAuth, JWT).
• Test Management & Certifications:
• Experience managing defect tracking and test repositories using tools such as JIRA, TestRail, Micro Focus ALM (QC/Sprinter).
• Certified Software Testing Professional (CSTP) and/or Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) is an advantage.
• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines.

Benefits

What do we offer in return?

Competitive Compensation

• Market competitive salary and variable performance bonus aligned to your skills, impact, and contribution.

Benefits

• Outpatient medical, specialist medical coverage and generous customisable flexi benefits, or flexi allowance; life and health insurance, thoughtful perks like special occasions “red packet” and CNY goodies, etc.

Employee Wellness

• Support for your physical, mental, and overall well-being through year-round initiatives.

Growth & Development

• Learning programmes, certification support, and a dedicated staff development budget. (We are a “SHRI 2025 Gold winner” in “Learning & Development; Coaching & Mentoring”)

Career Progression

• Structured career pathways that enable you to grow along a technical/domain expert track or a leadership track.
• Competency Framework
• A structured and practical framework to support you to develop, perform, and succeed.
• Flexible Work Arrangement
• Staff may choose to work flexi-place, flexi-time, and flexi-load based on existing framework

What Happens After You Apply:

• Your profile will be reviewed and assessed by our Talent team
• Suitable candidates may be invited for an exploratory conversation
• You’ll be considered for upcoming roles that match your skills and interests
• We’ll keep in touch as relevant opportunities arise

Why you'll love working with us?

If you are looking for opportunities to collaborate with leading industry experts and be surrounded by highly motivated and talented peers, we welcome you to join us. We provide all employees with equal opportunities to grow and develop with us. We believe your success is our success.

Does it sound like something you are interested in exploring further? Please be in touch with our team for an initial chat at careers@activate.sg

Activate Interactive Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Activate Interactive Pte Ltd does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.

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