Automation Software Tester (15 months contract)
First seen by Alion on Oct 7, 2026.
About the role
You'll own software reliability, test automation and continuous quality improvement across both conventional software components and agentic AI capabilities for an AI-powered document processing and case intelligence platform on AWS GCC built by a Singapore public sector agency. 12-month contract with an optional 12-month extension.
Key responsibilities
Collaborate with the business owner and business consultant to define clear and actionable user story acceptance criteria
Work with backend engineers to ensure automated test coverage and prevent bugs and defects reaching production
Analyse and decompose complex software systems to design holistic, risk-based test strategies
Develop and maintain test automation frameworks using industry-standard tools
Design, implement and execute comprehensive test suites covering functional, regression, exploratory and performance testing
Perform time-boxed exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability issues
Maintain a stable regression test suite integrated into QA nightly builds
Lead system integration testing with other system owners to validate cross-system interactions
Oversee UAT, coordinating with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met
Manage the defect lifecycle, test artefacts and test repositories to ensure clear tracking and reporting
About you
Minimum 5 years' relevant working experience
Strong knowledge of test automation strategies and risk-based testing
Experience designing and executing test cases, test plans and test suites
Hands-on experience with manual and automated testing for web, mobile and API services
Familiarity with cross-browser, cross-platform and responsive UI testing
Experience defining and executing structured evaluation criteria for agentic AI systems
Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright or Cypress
Knowledge of test scripting and automation programming using Python, Java, JavaScript or C#
Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo)
Ability to design maintainable, scalable and reusable test automation suites
Skills
Design, Test Automation Framework, Risk Based Testing, Acceptance Criteria, Software Quality Assurance, Mathematics, ISO, Team Spirit, Exploratory Testing, Designing software systems, Backend Testing, Functional Testing, Regression, System Integration Testing, Qa Testing, Minitab