Project Manager (QE)

Work mode : Hybrid

Shift Schedule : Night Shift

Work Location: Makati City

Duties and Responsibilities

• Quality Engineering Leadership

• Define and implement quality engineering strategies, methodologies, and best

practices.

• Establish quality goals, test frameworks, and governance processes across

projects.

• Promote a quality-first culture throughout the SDLC.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency and

effectiveness.

• Project & Test Management

• Lead end-to-end testing for large-scale programs, projects, and releases.

• Develop and manage test plans, schedules, and deliverables.

• Coordinate SIT, UAT, Regression, Performance, and End-to-End Testing.

• Ensure testing milestones are met, and project risks are proactively managed.

• Define the right testing approach per program using risk-based/impact-based

prioritization.

• Team Leadership (delivery-facing)

• Lead and mentor the QA engineers/leads on the program day to day.

• Foster collaboration between QA, development, business, and project teams.

• Coordinate delivery across offshore and onshore teams and managers.

• Governance, Reporting, Defect & Risk

• Monitor testing progress, defect trends, and overall quality status.

• Present quality updates, risks, and recommendations to sponsors and

stakeholders.

• Ensure compliance with the organizational quality standards and audit

requirements.

• Oversee defect lifecycle from identification through resolution.

• Assess quality risks and develop mitigation strategies.

• Ensure production readiness through quality gates and release criteria.

• Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary quality representative across project teams.

• Partner with Product Owners, BAs, Architects, Developers, and Program Managers.

• Drive UAT readiness, stakeholder engagement, and solution validation.

• Communicate project status, quality insights, and recommendations effectively.

• Automation & Innovation

• Champion test automation strategies and continuous testing.

• Evaluate and recommend testing tools and technologies.

• Support CI/CD integration and DevOps quality initiatives.

• Drive adoption of modern QE methodologies.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for automation (framework design,

Playwright/Selenium, code/test-design review).

• Champion AI-assisted testing and evaluating emerging AI/LLM tooling.

• Initiative & Ownership

• Own ambiguous problems and turn them into structured, executable plans.

• Proactively identify automation gaps and process improvements and drive them to

completion.

• Bring a self-starter, go-getter mindset balancing speed with quality.

KEY SKILLS

• Experience managing multiple technology projects within the financial services

industry involving planning/tracking, budget management, issues resolution,

conflict management, resource management, status reporting, quality

enforcement, and management of multiple vendors. Excellent communication and

presentation skills required.

• Proficiency with project scheduling and tracking tools.

• Behavioral Characteristics:

o Comfortable working within boundaries of a structured methodology.

o Team Player (leading large, complex projects with multiple PMs).

o Detail Oriented

o Proactive

o Results Oriented

o Self-Starter

o Thought Leader