Senior/Staff Platform Quality Engineer

Location: Singapore

Department: Engineering

Location Type: HYBRID

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Your Impact

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks, shared libraries, test utilities, and reusable accelerators.
• Integrate automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to provide fast, reliable feedback.
• Evaluate and improve testing tools, framework architecture, execution efficiency, test data management, and reporting.
• Reduce duplicated engineering effort by making reusable capabilities easy to adopt and maintain.

• Identify and validate practical AI use cases across test design, automation development, exploratory testing support, defect analysis, and test maintenance.
• Develop repeatable AI-assisted testing workflows, with appropriate human review and validation.
• Assess AI-generated test quality, reliability, security, privacy, and maintainability before recommending broader adoption.
• Establish measurable baselines to determine whether AI adoption improves engineering productivity and test effectiveness.

• Define reusable approaches for load, stress, endurance, scalability, and resilience testing.
• Develop workload models, performance baselines, reusable scripts, and engineering guidance for high-volume systems.
• Enable teams to validate service-level objectives, critical user journeys, API latency, and production-like workloads.
• Provide guidance on accessibility automation, observability validation, and resilience testing.

• Advise and enable Product QEs and software engineers on automation design, testability, risk-based approaches, and quality engineering practices.
• Maintain technical documentation, reference implementations, and practical adoption guides.
• Measure adoption and effectiveness of platform capabilities and use delivery feedback to prioritize improvements.
• Investigate emerging technologies and recommend adoption based on evidence of business value.

What We're Looking Out For

• Strong programming skills in at least one language such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, or Python.
• Hands-on experience designing maintainable automation frameworks for APIs, services, and/or web applications.
• Experience with tools such as Playwright, REST API testing frameworks, or equivalent technologies.
• Practical CI/CD experience using platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, micro-services, distributed systems, APIs, testability, and integration patterns.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical problems and improve engineering practices across teams.
• Strong communication, technical documentation, and coaching skills.
• Experience in SaaS, fintech, banking, loyalty platforms, or other high-volume transaction systems.
• Practical exposure to AI-assisted software development or testing tools and the ability to evaluate their limitations.
• Knowledge of contract testing, accessibility standards such as WCAG, security testing, resilience testing, and test data management.
• Experience defining quality metrics, engineering standards, or reusable testing accelerators adopted by multiple teams.

Why Join Ascenda? 

• High growth environment & exponential career development
• Mobile & flexible work environment
• WFH office equipment allowance
• Medical insurance coverage
• Employee recognition programs
• Competitive compensation
• Travel perks & Employee rewards