Senior QA Engineer (Manual and Automation)

Penbrothers

Negotiable
Hybrid - Makati3-5 Yrs ExpDiplomaFull-time
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Job Description

Description

What you’ll do

Proactive QA During Design & Planning

  • Review user stories and design specs to write comprehensive test plans
  • Anticipate usability or logic issues and provide early feedback c. Define acceptance criteria and identify edge cases in collaboration with engineers and designers

Manual QA for Internal Builds

  • Perform smoke tests, exploratory testing, and regression testing on in-development builds
  • Log and triage issues in Jira with clear reproduction steps and severity ratings (P0–P3)

Post-Release QA & Monitoring

  • Investigate and validate production bugs and anomalies
  • (Bonus) Use analytics tools (e.g., Mixpanel) to track user behavior and detect drop-offs or errors
  • Recommend improvements to instrumentation and logging for better traceability

Build End-to-End Automated Testing

  • Design and implement a test automation framework covering Web, iOS, and Android
  • Choose and set up tools like Cypress, Selenium, Appium, Playwright, or Detox, Katalon, tailored to each platform
  • Integrate test automation into CI/CD workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Bitrise)
  • Write and maintain automated test cases for regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing
  • Ensure new features are covered by automation from day one

QA Culture, Process, and Tooling

  • Own and evolve QA best practices and documentation
  • Maintain a prioritized bug backlog and enforce quality gates during releases
  • Collaborate on release checklists and QA sign-offs using tools like Runway
  • Champion a quality-first mindset across the organization


What You Bring

  • 3+ years of hands-on QA experience in agile or startup environments
  • Proven experience designing and implementing automated tests for Web, iOS, and Android
  • Proficiency with at least one automation tool for each platform (e.g., Cypress for web, Appium or Detox for mobile)
  • Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong understanding of manual QA methodologies for multi-platform environments
  • Proficiency with Jira, TestRail (or equivalent test management tools)
  • Excellent communicator, detail-oriented, and team-first mindset


Nice to have:

  • Familiarity with analytics tools like Mixpanel or logging tools like Sentry
  • Exposure to mobile test labs (e.g., BrowserStack, Firebase Test Lab)
  • Experience with release orchestration tools such as Runway
  • Comfort writing simple scripts (e.g., JavaScript, Python) to support test automation

Requirements

Please refer to job description.

Test AutomationRegression TestingBug TrackingPerformance TestingTest PlanningQuality AssuranceAgile MethodologiesAPI TestingContinuous IntegrationManual Testing
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Working Location

6th Floor, OPL Building, 100 C. Palanca St., Legaspi Village, Makati, Metro Manila, PH

Posted on 28 May 2025

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