QA Engineer (Contract Basis)

📌 EMPLOYMENT DETAILS Employment type: through 3rd party/ vendor Duration: 24 months fixed term (subject to change based on business needs) Work setup: Full onsite with dedicated full office hours based in BSD, Tangerang. The Role Senior Lead the end-to-end quality assurance strategy across web, mobile, and API platforms, ensuring alignment with engineering and product objectives. Strategize and formulate the test automation framework architecture using tools such as Robot Framework, Selenium, Appium, Cypress, or Playwright. Authorize QA standards, testing methodologies, and release readiness criteria for the engineering organization. Plan and evaluate test coverage across functional, regression, integration, performance, and UAT test suites. Use AI-assisted tools thoughtfully to improve test-case drafting, defect analysis, test data preparation, and automation documentation. Lead root cause analysis for critical defects and drive systemic preventive actions to raise overall product quality. Synergize with Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams to embed quality practices throughout the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines. Negotiate prioritization of defect resolution and quality improvements with Product and Engineering stakeholders. Formulate and report on quality metrics including defect density, test coverage, automation rate, and release readiness. Recommend tooling upgrades, process improvements, and best practices to continuously evolve the QA practice. Mentor and coach mid and junior QA engineers, building team capability and a quality-first engineering culture. Control test environment integrity and ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects in JIRA. Mid Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases to validate functional and non-functional requirements across web, mobile, and API platforms. Analyze business and technical requirements to formulate clear, traceable test scenarios ensuring full coverage and testability. Implement and maintain automation frameworks and scripts using tools such as Robot Framework, Selenium, Appium, Cypress, or Playwright. Plan and perform end-to-end testing activities including smoke, regression, integration, performance, and UAT. Use AI-assisted tools where appropriate to draft test scenarios, analyze logs, summarize failures, or improve automation scripts, validating outputs before use. Evaluate defects thoroughly, log them accurately in JIRA, and track resolution through to closure. Control test execution cycles, manage test data, and maintain test environment configurations. Conduct root cause analysis on defects and recommend preventive actions to improve product quality. Monitor and report quality metrics such as defect density, test coverage, and release readiness. Collaborate with developers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to resolve issues and align on quality goals. Recommend improvements to test processes, coverage…