Software Testing Engineer

Job Responsibilities

As part of Fare System, you will be responsible to design and develop hardware and software solutions to automate the end-to-end testing activities of the integrated e-payment system. You will be part of the testing team and carry out system testing to support the various fare system projects from the planning stage right up to production trials. With a good understanding of the testing lifecycle, you will identify feasible test cases and to automate them such as to be able to effectively optimize the test efforts and improve on test efficiency.

As part of your day-to-day’s work, you will be involved in test planning, analyze the business/system requirements, design and develop test cases as well as the automation solutions and to execute the testing, demonstrating the effectiveness of test automation to both the internal and external stakeholders.

You will need to ensure that the automation solution is developed based on best practices such as to ensure modularity, portability, and scalability to allow for ease of enhancing and maintaining the solution, as well as user friendly for testers to set up and use. To operationalize the test automation solution, you will develop user manuals and also conduct training sessions for testers and relevant stakeholders.

To carry out your job role well, you need to be interested and constantly kept up to date with technology and be resourceful to explore and use the feasible solutions to continually improve on test effectiveness and efficiency through automation.  You must also be inquisitive to find out the root causes of defects and to devise automation means to mitigate the recurrence of similar defects through regression testing.

Job Requirements

• Degree in Information Technology or Engineering.
• At least 3 years’ relevant experience in testing with familiarity of full system development lifecycle from requirement, development, testing to deployment of distributed systems.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in developing test automation solutions involving devices (UI-based or embedded) and/or back-office systems using J2EE, .NET and Selenium/Robot frameworks.
• Savviness with technology and resourceful to leverage on it to develop feasible automation solutions.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work well both independently as well as in a team.

Job Requirements (Continued)

• Certification in software testing or development would be an advantage.
• Experience in diverse test execution phases (Agile testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing).
• Experience in micro-payment or Automatic Fare Collection systems using Smart Cards would bean advantage.