Senior Quality Control / Tester
Salary: ₱44,000 – ₱65,000 per month
The Application Quality Control Specialist ensures that software applications meet functional, technical, and usability standards before release.
This role focuses on identifying defects, validating features, and ensuring a smooth user experience through manual and/or automated testing.
Key Responsibilities
· Review business and technical requirements to create clear and comprehensive test cases.
· Execute manual and/or automated testing for web, mobile, or desktop applications.
· Perform functional, regression, integration, smoke, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
· Log, track, and validate defects using issue-tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Bugzilla, Azure DevOps).
· Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and product owners to clarify requirements and resolve issues.
· Participate in sprint ceremonies (if Agile/Scrum) such as planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
· Ensure test coverage aligns with acceptance criteria and quality standards.
· Prepare test reports, QA metrics, and recommendations for process improvements.
· Validate deployments in staging and production environments.
· Contribute to creating and maintaining QA documentation, standards, and best practices.
Qualifications & Skills
Required:
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
· Experience in software/application testing or quality control.
· Knowledge of testing types (functional, UI/UX, integration, regression, UAT, etc.).
· Familiarity with test case design and defect lifecycle.
· Experience with bug-tracking and test management tools (e.g., Jira, TestRail, Zephyr).
· Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
· Good communication and documentation abilities.
. At least 5 years of QC experience handing 2 or more Jr. QCs.
Preferred (Nice-to-Have):
· Experience with basic SQL for data validation.
· Exposure to automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Postman).
· Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and CI/CD pipelines.
· Knowledge of APIs, web services, or mobile app testing.
Soft Skills
· Strong sense of ownership and accountability
· Collaboration with cross-functional teams
· Time management and ability to work under deadlines
· Adaptability to changing requirements
Work Environment
· May work closely with developers, product managers, UI/UX teams, and DevOps.
· Fulltime onsite work.
· Typically part of a QA team or product development group.