Company: Union Bank of the Philippines
Position: Automation Test Engineer
Office Location: UnionBank Plaza - Ortigas, Pasig City
Job Summary: The Automation Test Engineer responsible for creating and maintaining automated test scripts to validate application functionality across various systems, ensuring alignment with user stories and key features. They collaborate with the test team to convert manual test cases into automated scripts, execute them, and report results, identifying issues and inconsistencies. Troubleshooting automation script failures and maintaining test reliability are key aspects of the role, along with integrating automated tests into the development pipeline. They continuously update and optimize scripts as applications evolve, ensuring efficiency and coverage across different platforms and environments. Additionally, they document automation processes, manage test data, and stay updated on emerging automation tools and best practices to enhance testing effectiveness.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Run test scripts using automation tools like TOSCA, Selenium, Appium, or Cypress, ensuring accurate execution and logging of results
- Write, modify, and enhance basic automation scripts using programming languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript
- Analyze script failures, interpret error logs, and resolve simple automation issues with guidance from senior team members
- Assist in converting manual test cases into automated scripts to enhance efficiency and improve test coverage
- Keep detailed records of test scripts, execution steps, and results to ensure transparency and traceability
- Work closely with test analysts and developers, providing updates on automation progress and addressing challenges
- Assist in running automated tests within the development pipeline to ensure continuous testing and early defect detection
- Document test outcomes, log defects, and communicate findings in a structured manner using test management tools
- Stay up to date with automation frameworks, best practices, and new technologies to improve scripting efficiency
- Adhere to established automation testing guidelines and industry best practices to maintain consistency and reliability in test execution.
Required Qualifications:
- Holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, with solid fundamentals in software testing, object-oriented programming, and QA methodologies
- Should have hands-on experience building automated test scripts for web, API, and/or mobile applications using common frameworks (e.g., Selenium/WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, REST-Assured)
- Be comfortable with version control (Git) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
- Working knowledge of test case design techniques (boundary, equivalence, risk-based testing), defect lifecycle management, and Agile/Scrum practices is expected; ISTQB or similar certification is a plus
Preferred Qualifications (nice-to-haves):
- Experience in modern test frameworks and languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C#), cloud-based testing or containerization (Docker), and exposure to microservices, contract testing, and mocking/stubbing (e.g., WireMock)
- Familiarity with BDD tools (Cucumber/SpecFlow), infrastructure-as-code, and observability (logs, metrics, traces) is advantageous
- Comfort working in fast-paced, agile environments with continuous delivery, and a track record of improving pipeline reliability and test execution speed, are highly valued
- Experience with performance testing (JMeter, k6) or security testing basics is a plus.
Skills and Competencies:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a quality-first mindset
- Technical skills span test automation design patterns (Page Object, Screenplay), robust assertions, parallelization strategies, and reliable synchronization to reduce flakiness
- Competence in API testing (HTTP, JSON, XML), data-driven testing, test data management, and environment configuration is essential, along with proficiency in CI/CD integration, reporting dashboards, and defect analytics
- The engineer should demonstrate clear communication, cross-functional collaboration, and documentation habits, while showing ownership, resilience, and continuous learningparticularly in optimizing test coverage, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) issues, and scaling automation across products and teams
Required Skills: Accountability, Adaptability, Analytical, Good Communication Skills, Critical thinking, Teamwork, Willingness to learn
