Quality Engineering Test Lead

Job Description

Setup and Location: Work From Home | Ortigas

Work Schedule: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM AEDT Sydney | 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Manila

Employment Type: Full Time

Ready to do work that actually excites you?

Our client is seeking an experienced Quality Engineering Test Lead to lead a team of QA professionals supporting the delivery of our SaaS insurance platform. This role combines hands-on testing leadership with people leadership responsibilities. You will be accountable for quality outcomes across projects, coaching and developing team members, improving automation adoption, and driving AI-assisted testing practices.

You will play a key role in building and maturing Monvia's offshore Quality Engineering capability while partnering closely with Australian-based Product, Delivery, and Engineering teams.

This is a leadership role for someone who can balance operational delivery excellence today while helping shape the future of testing through automation, continuous quality, and AI-enabled ways of working.

What You’ll Do

You’ll be the kind of person who:

• 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.
  

People Leadership

• 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.
  

Automation & Quality Engineering

• 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.
  

Desired technology exposure:

FitNesse; Playwright; Selenium; API Automation; CI/CD Pipelines; Git; AI & Innovation Leadership; Champion the use of AI to improve productivity and quality outcomes.

Examples include:

• 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
  

Expected outcome:

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

Stakeholder Management

• 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.
  

Key Accountabilities

The Test Lead will be accountable for: Delivery Quality; Defect leakage; Test coverage

Release readiness; Production quality outcomes; Team Performance; Team utilisation

Capability development; Employee engagement; Staff retention

Automation Uplift

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

Operational Excellence

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

Requirements

What You Bring

We’re looking for someone who:

• 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
  

Leadership Competencies

• 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)
  

KPI Target

• 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

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• 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!
  

Let’s Talk

If you’re thinking “this sounds like me”—it probably is. Click apply. We can’t wait to meet you.

Requirements
What You Bring We’re looking for someone who: 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 Leadership Competencies 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) KPI Target 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