Quality Engineering Test Lead

• Test Leadership & Delivery
  
• Lead testing activities across multiple projects and product releases.
  
• Own quality outcomes for assigned initiatives.
  
• Develop and oversee test strategies, plans and schedules.
  
• Ensure adequate test coverage across functional, integration, regression, performance and UAT activities.
  
• Monitor testing progress and manage risks.
  
• Provide quality status reporting to project managers and stakeholders.
  
• Support release readiness reviews and production deployments.
  

• Lead and mentor a team of QA professionals.
  
• Conduct performance reviews and development planning.
  
• Assist with recruitment, onboarding and capability development.
  
• Develop career pathways for testers and automation engineers.
  
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and collaboration.
  
• Build and maintain a high-performing Philippines QA capability.
  

• Drive automation adoption across projects.
  
• Define automation roadmaps and priorities.
  
• Improve automation coverage and efficiency.
  
• Review and approve automation frameworks and standards.
  
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual testing effort.
  

• AI-generated test scenarios
  
• AI-assisted test script development
  
• Defect analysis and classification
  
• Requirements quality reviews
  
• Regression optimisation
  
• Automated release impact assessments
  
• Quality metrics and predictive analytics
  

• Reduced testing effort
  
• Increased automation coverage
  
• Faster release cycles
  
• Improved quality outcomes
  

• Partner with Australian delivery leaders.
  
• Collaborate with Product & Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects and Developers.
  
• Participate in Sprint reviews and planning activities.
  
• Provide leadership through major releases and production issues.
  
• Support client-facing quality discussions when required.
  

• Automation coverage %
  
• Regression reduction
  
• Automated execution rates
  
• Continuous improvement initiatives
  

• Estimation accuracy
  
• Reporting quality
  
• Process compliance
  
• Risk management
  

Requirements

• 8+ years software testing experience.
  
• 2+ years leading testing teams.
  
• Experience delivering testing within Agile environments.
  
• Strong knowledge of test planning and execution.
  
• Proven stakeholder management experience.
  
• Experience managing offshore or distributed teams.
  
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.
  
• SaaS platform experience preferred
  
• Insurance domain experience preferred
  
• Playwright/Fitnesse experience preferred
  
• Automation framework experience preferred
  
• API testing experience preferred
  
• JMeter experience preferred
  
• AI-enabled testing tool experience preferred
  
• DevOps or CI/CD exposure preferred
  

• People Leadership: Coaches and develops others; Holds team members accountable.; Provides constructive feedback; Builds strong team culture.
  
• Ownership: Takes accountability for quality outcomes; Escalates issues proactively; Drives resolution.
  
• Continuous Improvement: Challenges inefficient practices; Promotes automation-first thinking; Encourages innovation; Strategic Thinking; Looks beyond immediate project needs; Builds scalable testing capability; Supports organisational transformation goals; Success Measures (12 Months)
  

• Team Engagement >80% favourable
  
• Automation Coverage +30% increase
  
• Regression Effort -25% reduction
  
• Production Defects Reduced YoY
  
• Utilisation >80% productive utilisation
  
• Staff Retention >90%
  
• Team Capability All staff have automation and AI development plans
  
• AI Adoption Measurable productivity gains across QA function
  

Benefits

• HMO, Dental, and Life Insurance for you and one free dependent from day one (with the option to enroll additional dependents)
  
• Paid Leaves: Birthday, Vacation, Medical, and Maternity (up to 6 Vacation Leaves are convertible to cash on your anniversary)
  
• Employee Engagement Activities: Year-End Party, Family Day, Team Building, and more!