Testing Center Architect (For Pooling)
UnionBank of the Philippines • Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines
**Role & Seniority: ** Testing Center Architect (probationary); 5+ years QA/Software Testing; 3+ years as Test Lead/QA Lead/Test Manager/Senior QE/Test Architect
**Stack/Tools: ** Test automation frameworks; API testing; performance/security exposure; test data methods; Test Management tools (Jira, HP ALM); CI/CD; Agile/Scrum/DevOps
**Top 3 Responsibilities: **
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Lead/oversee testing activities across IT projects; define testing strategy, plan, and testing environments.
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Estimate and manage testing effort, time, resources, and budget; ensure timely delivery of testing milestones.
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Coordinate with business/IT/partners; monitor requirement changes, escalate issues/RAIDs, and manage partner deliverables and QA artifacts.
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Must-have skills:
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Test strategy + test planning; risk/quality risk assessment; estimation and resource planning.
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Test automation framework design; direction of automation/tool implementation.
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Ownership of testing documentation/artifacts review and approval; coordination with release processes.
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Agile/Scrum and CI/CD delivery experience; requirement analysis and change monitoring.
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Nice-to-haves:
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Testing certifications (preferred).
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Experience across multiple agile squads/tribes/product domains; translating solution architecture into test strategies.
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Exposure to performance/security testing and “NFTs” (as referenced), and data quality testing.
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Location & Work type: Ortigas, Pasig City (UnionBank Plaza); probat
Full Description
Job Title: Testing Center Architect
Office Location: UnionBank Plaza, Ortigas, Pasig City
Employment Type: Probationary
About The Role
The Testing Center Architect is responsible for leading and overseeing testing activities across IT projects, ensuring quality, reliability, and timely delivery. The role provides expertise in test strategy, automation, test environments, and technical testing while coordinating with business, IT teams, and partners to ensure adherence to testing standards and best practices.
What You'll Do
Accountable to deliver the testing of products/services across UBP IT projects by understanding the effort through requirements analysis. Estimate and manage the effort, time, resources, and budget required to perform the testing. Responsible for the coordination and collaboration with business and other ITSG units for the assessment of projects and Service requests that require testing and organizing the testing kick-off meeting. Monitors and tracks new requirements/change in requirements and escalates any issues to appropriate stakeholders and to his supervisor. Attend the regular client call and discuss status and RAIDs with client. Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones. Prepares/updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.
Manages the partners' tasks and deliverables and ensures that they have sufficient work and industry standards and best practices are adhered to
- Define the strategy.
- Develop the test plan, dependencies, mitigations, and contingencies for identified risks.
- Coordinate the hardware and software requirements for the test setup.
- Ensure content and structure of all testing documents/artifacts is documented and maintained.
- Check/review and provide approval on all test deliverables.
- Designing test frameworks for test automation and testing in general.
- Directing and coordinating the implementation of test automation and other test tools.
- Designing test environments.
- Providing guidance on the selection of the most effective test design techniques in a given situation.
- Providing guidance on technical types of testing such as performance testing and security testing.
- Designing methods for the creation of test data.
- Coordinating testing with release processes.
- What We're Looking For
5+ years of Software Testing / Quality Engineering experience. 3+ years in a Test Lead, QA Lead, Test Manager, Senior QE, or Test Architect capacity. Experience supporting Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD delivery models. Exposure to Test Automation Frameworks, API Testing, Data Quality testing, and NFTs (Security and Performance Tests). Exposure to Test Management tools (Jira, HP ALM, etc.). Testing Certifications (preferred). Experience supporting multiple agile squads, tribes, or product domains and translating solution architecture into test strategies and quality risk assessments (preferred).
