Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description

Glass Lewis is a trusted ally to more than 1,300 investors globally who use our corporate governance research, custom policy recommendations, engagement services and tools, and industry-leading proxy vote management solution to help drive value across their governance activities. We also work with over 3,000 corporate issuer clients, providing research reports, thought leadership, customized voting policies, equity plan models, and opportunities for direct engagement on material governance and disclosure practices.

Glass Lewis industry-leading research and analysis covers more than 30,000 meetings each year across approximately 100 global markets. Our clients include many of the world's leading pension funds, mutual funds, and asset managers, collectively managing over $40 trillion in assets.

We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions, giving us global reach with a local perspective on the most important governance issues. Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Kansas City, Missouri; London, U.K.; Paris, France; Limerick, Ireland; Karlsruhe, Germany; Stockholm, Sweden; Manila, Philippines; Toronto, Canada; Sydney, Australia; Timisoara, Romania; and Tokyo, Japan. Our team includes more than 400 full-time employees globally, over half of which are dedicated to research.

For more information, please visit www.glasslewis.com.

We are recruiting a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for our team in Manila, Philippines. Reporting to the local QA Engineer Lead, we are looking for someone to play key role in the team driving our efforts in quality assurance. The right candidate is highly motivated, self-driven, eager to learn, and passionate about taking ownership of their contribution to the product.

Job Requirements

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Above all we value communication, common sense and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will bring:

• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Willingness to give and take feedback and share knowledge
• A strong desire to learn and improve.
• The ability to influence QA and testing best practices within your team
• Be a strong cultural fit and work well within a collaborative team environment
• Willingness to transition/learn to automated testing

From a technical perspective we would require a minimum of 5 years QA experience through the entire lifecycle of an enterprise application. Use of the following technologies and methodologies would be a distinct advantage:

• Proven work experience in software development
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Good knowledge of SQL
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Hands-on experience in API testing

Nice to have's

• Experience with automated testing tools (Cypress and Playwright)
• Experience in Performance testing (e.g: JMeter)
• Experience in scripting (TypeScript, JavaScript preferably)

• Experience with security testing is a plus
• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Job Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities

The Quality Assurance Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of software products through manual testing, including test planning, execution, defect tracking, and documentation. The role involves close collaboration with developers, product owners, technical product owners and other QA team members to identify issues early and maintain high testing standards. The ideal candidate will have strong attention to detail, a proactive mindset, and a willingness to learn and contribute to the team's continuous improvement. The engineer is expected to grow into automation testing, gaining exposure to automated frameworks and tools to support the transition toward more efficient and scalable testing processes.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Key responsibility to ensure that all quality checks, risk assessment and processes and procedures have been followed by the teams in relation to all releases to production.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities with our teams to ensure quality and test coverage.
• Collaborate in an agile environment, actively participating in agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-ups
• Assist teams in developing test plans and cases to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Review user stories requirements, specifications and technical design documents when required
• Work with agile teams to identify integration points for new work
• Create and maintain dependency documentation for system wide regression
• Assist with execution of manual testing with a close eye to transition to automation testing.

Job Benefits

This role is a full-time, hybrid position that requires regular office attendance (3x per week). This position is based in our Makati City office.

EEO Statement:

Glass Lewis is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, regardless of age, gender identity, religion, disability, or background.