56 Automation Lead jobs in the Philippines

Role Overview

The QA Practice Lead will establish and lead the Quality Assurance practice in Manila, with a focus on embedding automation-first, shift-left testing practices across squads. This role is responsible for defining QA standards, building reusable frameworks, and mentoring QA engineers to ensure consistent, efficient, and scalable testing.

You will work closely with Technical Leads, Delivery Managers, and UK counterparts to align on testing strategy, tooling, and quality objectives. Acting as the center of excellence for QA, you will balance hands-on leadership with strategic oversight to build a world-class QA capability within Proactis.

Your Job Will Be To

• Define and implement a unified QA strategy across squads, ensuring automation-first principles.
• Lead the creation and adoption of QA standards, processes, and best practices.
• Build and maintain reusable automation frameworks and tools that reduce regression bottlenecks.
• Mentor and coach QA engineers embedded in squads, raising technical and process maturity.
• Work with Delivery Managers and Technical Leads to embed QA earlier in the SDLC ("shift-left").
• Ensure consistent reporting of QA metrics (test coverage, defect leakage, automation rates, release quality).
• Partner with UK QA/Engineering leadership to align quality goals and ensure consistency across regions.

Key Responsibilities

QA Strategy & Standards

• Establish automation-first testing frameworks and practices.
• Ensure consistent approaches to test case creation, execution, and documentation.
• Define metrics for measuring product quality and QA effectiveness.

Technical Leadership

• Build and maintain cross-squad test automation frameworks (e.g., SpecFlow, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, etc.).
• Champion CI/CD integration of automated tests.
• Stay current on QA tooling, frameworks, and methodologies, introducing improvements where relevant.

People & Practice Leadership

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and training for QA engineers across squads.
• Act as the escalation point for QA-related issues and risks.
• Lead recruitment and onboarding of new QA hires to build practice capability.
• Foster a culture of quality ownership across the engineering organisation.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Collaborate with Delivery Managers to ensure QA activities are included in sprint planning and reporting.
• Work with Technical Leads to embed testability into design and development practices.
• Partner with UK engineering leadership to ensure Manila QA practices align with global standards.

Key Skills & Experience

Required:

• 7+ years' experience in QA, with at least 3 years in a senior/leadership role.
• Strong expertise in test automation frameworks and CI/CD integration.
• Proven track record of building QA processes and practices in distributed engineering environments.
• Strong knowledge of Agile testing practices, BDD/TDD, and shift-left approaches.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, able to influence across technical and delivery teams.

Preferred:

• Experience with Azure DevOps test plans and pipelines.
• Familiarity with microservices and cloud-based environments (Azure, AWS).
• Exposure to UK/European stakeholders and delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage AQA team, ensuring efficient and effective testing processes.
• Design, develop, and maintain comprehensive automated test suites for mobile applications (iOS and Android) using Java and tools like Appium.
• Implement various types of automated tests, including functional, regression, integration, and performance tests for mobile applications.
• Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing for mobile builds.
• Analyze test results, identify root causes of failures in mobile applications, and report defects clearly and concisely.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure the testability of mobile applications and promote best practices for mobile automation and manual testing.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in mobile automation and manual testing.
• Contribute to the improvement of mobile automation frameworks and processes.
• Perform performance testing on mobile applications to identify performance bottlenecks and ensure responsiveness.
• Analyze native mobile application logs and UI elements to identify potential issues.
• Conduct manual testing as needed, including exploratory testing, usability testing, and ad-hoc testing.
• Create and execute manual test cases and test plans.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members on both automated and manual testing techniques.

As a Senior QA Automation Lead, you will lead the quality assurance strategy across teams to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our web and software products. You will mentor QA engineers, drive automation initiatives, and collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams to align QA efforts with company goals. Your leadership will help define best practices, elevate QA standards, and guide the team in delivering a seamless and high-quality user experience.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leading the QA Automation team in defining and implementing testing strategies, frameworks, and best practices across all projects.
• Driving test planning, prioritization, and execution of both manual and automated testing across frontend, backend, and mobile systems.
• Overseeing the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, reusable automated test scripts that simulate end-to-end user interactions across platforms.
• Monitoring automation test coverage and execution results, ensuring issues are identified early and release cycles are efficient and reliable.
• Reviewing test results and quality metrics, preparing leadership-level reports and recommendations for quality improvements and risk mitigation.
• Maintaining and enhancing the automation framework, testing tools, and CI/CD integrations to support continuous testing.
• Mentoring QA engineers and fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning within the QA team.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate QA processes seamlessly into the development lifecycle and release workflows.
• Proactively identifying gaps in quality processes and leading initiatives for operational excellence and innovation in QA practices.
• Exploring and integrating AI-driven testing solutions to enhance automation efficiency, such as intelligent test generation, self-healing scripts, and predictive defect detection.

Requirements

• With at least 5+ years experience in both manual and automation testing and at least 1 year experience in leading a team.
• Development and execution of test plans and scenarios
• Experience in writing automated tests in Selenium, Cypress, and Appium, Robot Framework
• Testing complex GUIs, APIs, and platforms
• Source control management like Git, Bitbucket, etc.

We're looking for someone who is:

• Proactive, adaptable, and detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement.
• A strong leader and leads by example.
• Highly professional, willing to go the extra mile to achieve desired outcomes.
• Good at collaborating and communicating effectively within and across teams.
• Knowledgeable in testing, verification, and validation techniques to ensure software quality.

At LegalMatch Philippines, we offer a dynamic and innovative environment where you can grow and make a real impact in legal tech. Join our team, collaborate with passionate individuals, and take the next step in your career. Apply today

As a Senior QA Automation Lead, you will lead the quality assurance strategy across teams to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our web and software products. You will mentor QA engineers, drive automation initiatives, and collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams to align QA efforts with company goals. Your leadership will help define best practices, elevate QA standards, and guide the team in delivering a seamless and high-quality user experience.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leading the QA Automation team in defining and implementing testing strategies, frameworks, and best practices across all projects.
• Driving test planning, prioritization, and execution of both manual and automated testing across frontend, backend, and mobile systems.
• Overseeing the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, reusable automated test scripts that simulate end-to-end user interactions across platforms.
• Monitoring automation test coverage and execution results, ensuring issues are identified early and release cycles are efficient and reliable.
• Reviewing test results and quality metrics, preparing leadership-level reports and recommendations for quality improvements and risk mitigation.
• Maintaining and enhancing the automation framework, testing tools, and CI/CD integrations to support continuous testing.
• Mentoring QA engineers and fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning within the QA team.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate QA processes seamlessly into the development lifecycle and release workflows.
• Proactively identifying gaps in quality processes and leading initiatives for operational excellence and innovation in QA practices.
• Exploring and integrating AI-driven testing solutions to enhance automation efficiency, such as intelligent test generation, self-healing scripts, and predictive defect detection.

• With at least 5+ years experience in both manual and automation testing and at least 1 year experience in leading a team.
• Development and execution of test plans and scenarios
• Experience in writing automated tests in Selenium, Cypress, and Appium, Robot Framework
• Testing complex GUIs, APIs, and platforms
• Source control management like Git, Bitbucket, etc.

We're looking for someone who is:

• Proactive, adaptable, and detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement.
• A strong leader and leads by example.
• Highly professional, willing to go the extra mile to achieve desired outcomes.
• Good at collaborating and communicating effectively within and across teams.
• Knowledgeable in testing, verification, and validation techniques to ensure software quality.

At LegalMatch Philippines, we offer a dynamic and innovative environment where you can grow and make a real impact in legal tech. Join our team, collaborate with passionate individuals, and take the next step in your career. Apply today

Work Setup
:

• Hybrid
  : 3x onsite per week in Makati City
• Dayshift

Qualifications:

• Has a strong background in functional testing for enterprise-like platforms and extensive experience in developing and implementing automated tests, preferably using Playwright
• Technical: Strong Java, Strong Selenium or Playwright, Proficient in SQL and REST APIs
• Functional: Strong core testing skills, able to influence the test approach to ensure repeatable testing and sustainable automation
• Experience working on Enterprise ERP platforms, ETL testing and CI/CD

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Collaborate with development, product management, and other cross-functional teams to understand requirements and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.
• Develop, execute and maintain automated test scripts.
• Potentially work on the continuous integration framework for the automation suite.
• Build automation frameworks and scripts for end-to-end testing, including API, UI, and other types of testing.
• Identify, document, and track software defects and work with the development team to resolve issues

We are seeking a highly skilled SDN (Software-Defined Networking) and Automation Lead to drive the design, development, and operationalization of next-generation networking solutions.

This role will oversee the implementation of SDN frameworks, network automation, orchestration platforms, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure scalability, agility, and efficiency across our network infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategy, design, and roadmap for SDN and network automation initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor solutions (e.g. OSS, Ribbon MUSE; Nokia WebSuite and Altiplano, Hauwei NCE iMaster, ZTE ZenicOne, API, Microservices Infrastructure, Phyton, Netconf/YANG, Kafka, Ansible, Terraform) to align with business and operational goals.
• Architect and deploy SDN solutions for both IP and Optical Transmission that covers Access/Metro, Aggregation/RBB and Core/NBB, DCI, DC Network environments.
• Develop APIs and integrate SDN controllers with OSS; OSS with BSS, ITSM, and customized dashboard.
• Manage end-to-end project lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, testing, deployment, and optimization.
• Drive network transformation towards intent-based with assurance networking and zero-touch operations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in network engineering, with at least 3 years in SDN and automation leadership roles.
• Proven track record in deploying and managing SDN solutions in service provider network or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Hands-on expertise with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Netconf/RESTCONF, gNMI).
• Strong knowledge of protocols (BGP, ISIS, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN, MPLS, SRv6).
• Familiarity with cloud networking (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes networking, vMWare, (CNI, service mesh).

Key Skills:

• Deep understanding of SDN architectures (OpenFlow, controller-based, intent-based).
• Proficiency in network automation (configuration and fault management; orchestration specifically on provisioning and activation, inventory management).

Job Title:
Quality Assurance Lead (Automation Testing)

Location:
Mandaluyong City / Makati City

Employment Type:
Contract

Work Schedule:
Day shift

Level:
Senior / Lead

Experience Required:
Minimum 6-8 years

We are looking for a
Lead Automation Tester
with extensive experience in
Test Automation
, a strong background in the
life insurance domain
, and
Must have a
hands-on expertise in TOSCA
. The ideal candidate will lead a team of testers and work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality software delivery through well-structured and scalable automation solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the automation testing efforts across projects in the
  life insurance domain
  .
• Design and develop
  automation test scripts using TOSCA
  .
• Define and implement best practices in test automation frameworks, strategy, and processes.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and business analyst teams to ensure quality delivery.
• Ensure test coverage across functional and regression testing using automation.
• Review test cases, scripts, and defects to ensure high standards.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior testers in the team.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives as part of an Agile team.
• Prepare detailed test reports and status updates to stakeholders and project managers.

Qualifications:

Must-Have:

• Minimum
  6–8 years of experience
  in software testing with a focus on
  test automation
  .
• At least
  2+ years of experience working with TOSCA
  .
• Strong understanding of the
  life insurance domain
  , including product rules, policy lifecycle, claims, and underwriting processes.
• Proven experience in designing and maintaining scalable
  automation frameworks
  .
• Experience in
  Agile/Scrum
  environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with other automation tools (e.g., Selenium, UFT, TestComplete) is a plus.
• Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman or SoapUI.
• ISTQB or other testing certifications.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).

Educational Background:

• Bachelor's degree in
  Computer Science, Information Technology
  , or a related field.

Hi,

I'm Ishika and I work as Technical Recruiter at Artech. Please find the Job Description below and let me know if you are interested in the same.

Job Title: Selenium Automation Testing Job Type: Hybrid( 8x a month)

Location: Taguig ,1634, PH

Position Type: 6 months contract

No. of hours per week: 45

Shift Timings : Shift B (until 2am Manila)

If interested, please share your updated resume. Along with the best time to connect with you.

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Job Description:

• Understanding and Analyzing the Application Under Test in terms of Object Identification.

• Creating Test scenarios and Collecting Test Data.

• Identifying end to end scenarios and code modularity.

• Implementing JUnit or TestNG Test Automation framework and developing automation infrastructure.

• Creating reusable components.

• Creating and enhancing Test Cases (Test Scripts) using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming concepts and TestNG Annotations.

• Error Handling, Adding comments.

• Creating Data driven Tests and Running through framework.

• Cross Browser Testing (Executing test cases against various browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google chrome, IE and Safari etc.).

• Parallel Test Execution.

• Defining and exporting Test Results.

• Analyzing Test Results and Reporting Defects.

• Tracking Defects and Select Test cases for Re & Regression Testing.

• Modifying Test Automation Resources and Maintenance of Resources.

Number of years experiences needed: 5-6 Years (CL9)