Senior Quality Engineer @Balsam Brands

[Hiring] Senior Quality Engineer @Balsam Brands

Mar 29, 2025 - Balsam Brands is hiring a remote Senior Quality Engineer. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Philippines.

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Role Description

The Senior Quality Engineer reports directly to the Software QA Manager and plays a crucial role in supporting and contributing to the design, implementation, and enhancement of test automation frameworks and strategies. This role also actively performs the hands-on responsibilities of developing automated test scripts, executing test cases, maintaining automation environments, and ensuring test coverage aligns with business requirements.

Implementation of tools, standards and best practices
Works closely with Test Architects to design, implement, and enhance automation frameworks.
Defines and maintains coding standards and best practices for test automation process as and when required.
Establishes and enforces test automation guidelines for efficient and scalable testing.
Automation environment maintenance
Maintains and oversees the status of the test environments along with their test data.
Ensures that the test environments are functional and caters to the needs of test automation.
Takes ownership of the environments used during test automation.
Test Case Automation
Designs, develops, and maintains automated test scripts using standard automation tools.
Conducts code reviews on teammates' pull requests.
Integrates test automation scripts into the CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous testing.
Plans and manages automated test suites for regression, functional, and integration testing.
Software Quality Assurance Exercise
Collaborates with teammates to establish internal processes and best practices for Software Quality Assurance.
Proposes and implement process improvements that could benefit not just the QA team but the project team as well.
Allocates work, estimation, along with script development, within the automation team.
Stays up-to-date with the new testing tools and test strategies.
Cross-functional Agile Collaboration
Participates in agile ceremonies like scrum meetings, sprint planning, and project retrospectives and provides personal input and feedback.
Attends in production or live deployments and monitors deployment status after performing sanity testing.
Creates a recording of user documentation of configurable components or any related functionalities for business users or as needed.
Collaborates remotely with cross-functional teams in the United States, Philippines, Mexico and India, including developers, product managers, and manual test engineers, to ensure the delivery of high-quality software.
Collaborates with the development team to integrate automated tests into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
Provide training for manual test engineers on automation tools and processes. Help them to transition as an automation engineer.
Software Test Life Cycle Management
Executes test cases and/or scripts, including thorough regression tests, white or black box testing of new and existing functionalities, and manual execution of end-to-end scenarios.
Assesses scope of testing and create test suites in Zephyr for JIRA.
Prepares an execution plan and track the progress. Ensure test execution completes on time.
Reviews and collates test cycle metrics, including test progress, test results, defects found, overall testing status and potential risks, and reports to project stakeholders.
Investigates and debugs test failures, provides detailed reports and collaborates with the development team to resolve issues promptly.
Performs other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
Minimum of Five (5) to Eight (8) years of experience as a Test Automation Engineer or in a similar role.
Must have experience in test automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Typescript, etc.
Must have a solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, design patterns, software testing processes, best practices, and be accustomed to Agile Development.
Must be familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools and performance testing and security testing.
Must be able to work a flexible night shift schedule (typically 8pm-4am PHT, adjusting to 8pm-5am PHT after Daylight Saving Time ends).

Requirements

Must be open to joining some face-to-face gatherings, like our monthly functional meetings and quarterly teamwide events.
Must have a back-up laptop or desktop for use, if primary laptop encounters issues.
Must have a fast, reliable DSL, Fiber or Broadband connection (not mobile or broadband stick) as the primary internet connection with a minimum actual speed of 50MBPS.
Must have a back-up internet connection of the same speed, if primary connection becomes spotty.

Benefits

Government-mandated Benefits (SSS, PAG-IBIG, PhilHealth)
13th Month Pay
Paid Leaves. We use time off to rest, go on vacation, or just sleep in! Our paid time off is flexible to our needs.
Internet Subsidy. With internet allowance, we are set up for success.
Healthcare Coverage (+ 2 dependents). We worry less about rising medical costs with flexible quality healthcare benefits.
Maternity, Paternity, and Solo Parent Benefit. We make sure parents are supported while they navigate work and family life.
Continuous Learning and Professional Development Benefit. Our professional and personal development are fully supported. Whether it be online courses, workshops or books!
Mental Health Support. We manage work and life's challenges through Mental Health Day breaks, 24/7 professional counselling, and curated webinars.
Company Incentive. An additional cash-based perk for all our Brandits based on company's performance.
Meeting & Team Building Allowance. Happy tummies make our meetings more fun and productive!
Shutdown Week. We can spend more time on things that matter with an additional one week paid time off on top of paid leaves.
Volunteer Time Off. With two paid days off, we are able to volunteer for advocacies we believe in.
Bereavement Leave. We get additional paid leaves when a loved one passes to grieve and provide immediate support to our families.

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