Total 6 system analyst job vacancies in Quality Assurance / Control category in Ortigas Center, Metro Manila

Work Setup and Location: On-Site, Arayat st., Mandaluyong, Metro Manila

Work Schedule: Morning or Afternoon shift, Monday-Friday (8-hour shift only)

Experience Level: 3-5 years

No. of employees required: 7

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced QA Tester/Analyst to join our quality assurance team. As a QA Tester/Analyst, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and functionality of our software applications by conducting thorough testing and analysis. You will collaborate with developers, project managers, and business stakeholders to identify issues, track defects, and ensure high-quality deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Test Planning and Strategy

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on business requirements and technical specifications.
• Define test scenarios and strategies for different types of testing (e.g., functional, regression, performance, security, usability).
• Work closely with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements and define testing objectives.
• Collaborate with project teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage and quality standards.

Manual and Automated Testing

• Perform manual testing for web, mobile, and desktop applications, identifying bugs, issues, and inconsistencies.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts using testing frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, or others).
• Conduct regression testing to ensure that new changes do not negatively affect existing functionalities.
• Perform functional, integration, user acceptance, and system testing on new software releases.

Defect Identification and Reporting

• Identify, document, and track defects, providing clear and actionable feedback to developers.
• Reproduce issues and work with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve defects in a timely manner.
• Maintain detailed records of test results, issue logs, and steps taken to replicate problems.
• Verify bug fixes and perform follow-up testing to ensure successful resolution of issues.

Collaboration with Development Teams

• Work closely with developers to understand the technical architecture and design of applications.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to ensure alignment with development goals and timelines.
• Provide feedback on product features and functionality, focusing on usability and quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a smooth handoff between testing, development, and deployment stages.

Test Environment Setup and Configuration

• Set up and maintain test environments for manual and automated testing.
• Ensure test data is prepared and structured for accurate testing outcomes.
• Monitor test environments for stability, identifying and resolving issues that could impact testing.

Continuous Improvement and Best Practices

• Stay updated on the latest testing tools, technologies, and methodologies.
• Suggest improvements to current testing processes, workflows, and tools.
• Contribute to the development of best practices for testing and quality assurance across the team.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback on testing-related aspects of code development.

Documentation and Reporting

• Document and report test results, including defect details, status reports, and final test reports.
• Create test coverage reports, ensuring all functional and non-functional requirements are addressed.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, and issues to stakeholders and management.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience:
• 2-4 years of experience in software testing, with a focus on manual and automated testing.
• Proven experience in identifying, analyzing, and documenting software defects.
• Experience with testing web, mobile, and desktop applications.
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience with defect tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Bugzilla, or others).
• Technical Skills:
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies (e.g., black-box testing, white-box testing, performance testing).
• Proficiency in using automated testing tools such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Postman, or other test automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration tools.
• Experience with API testing (REST/SOAP) and tools such as Postman, SoapUI, or similar.
• Knowledge of database management and writing basic SQL queries for test data validation.
• Familiarity with performance testing tools such as LoadRunner or JMeter is a plus.
• Strong understanding of cross-browser and cross-device testing.
• Soft Skills:
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to document issues clearly and concisely.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Strong time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• A proactive attitude toward improving processes and overall product quality.
• Certifications (preferred):
• ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) certification or equivalent.
• Certified Software Tester (CST) or other relevant certifications.
• Experience with Agile frameworks and Scrum certification is a plus.

Position : Operations QA Analyst

Working Hours : Full-Time; 40 hours/week; US Pacific Time Zone Work Hours

Salary: USD 1,000 - USD 1,700/month

About the role:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Operations Analyst to join our team and play a crucial role in our daily call analysis and reporting processes.

As our Operations Associate, you will be responsible for reviewing customer calls, identifying issues and trends, and preparing comprehensive reports for both internal teams and our clients. This role is critical in maintaining our service quality and driving continuous improvement in our operations.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with various departments, including customer service, quality assurance, and product development, to ensure that insights from call analysis are effectively utilized across the organization.

We offer competitive compensation, benefits, and the chance to grow with a dynamic, fast-paced

company.

Main Responsibilities:

• Analyze customer calls for quality, compliance, and issue identification
• Prepare detailed reports on call performance, trends, and areas for improvement
• Communicate findings to internal teams and clients through well-structured reports
• Collaborate with the quality assurance team to develop and refine call evaluation criteria
• Identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency gains in our technology
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of dashboards for real-time performance monitoring
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our call analysis and reporting tools and methodologies

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Data Analytics, or related field
• 2-3 years of experience in quality assurance in a customer service environment
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and derive actionable insights
• Incredibly disciplined and productive, able to maintain high output even when handling seemingly mundane tasks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, SQL)
• Detail-oriented with a keen eye for identifying patterns and anomalies in data
• Ability to manage time effectively and meet daily reporting deadlines
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to addressing issues

Bonus Points:

• Experience with call center operations or customer service metrics is preferred
• Proficiency with reporting software (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
• Knowledge of healthcare-specific terminology
• Project management skills
• Background in statistical analysis or data science
• Experience in developing and delivering training programs

• Competitive pay and performance bonuses
• Professional development opportunities and training budget
• Flexible work hours and remote work options (post-onboarding)

About Pluto

Pluto is the Enterprise Spend Management platform for MENA serving the $30 Trillion+ B2B Payments market. Pluto has been awarded the "Corporate solutions of the year" by the Middle Eastern Fintech Association.

Pluto is backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top-tier venture capital firms. We’ve raised $7M Seed from top investors and operators, including founders from Ramp, Airbase, Plaid, Italic & Senior Leadership at Shopify, Cash App, Checkout.com, Alloy and some of the worlds most successful FinTech VCs like GFC, Graph Ventures, Soma Capital, Adapt Ventures, amongst others who’ve trusted us

• Remote Friendly Workplace
• Frequent team off sites!
• Bonuses on exceptional performance

As a Regulatory Compliance Analyst at Balsam, you'll lead our charge in upholding data privacy regulations and delving into requests. as well as staying updated on regulatory changes. You'll conduct comprehensive research, ensuring our compliance initiatives are robust. Your role is pivotal in safeguarding our data integrity and security through monitoring, QA, and guiding our compliance strategies. Your insights will shape our approach, significantly impacting our regulatory compliance efforts.

What you'll be doing:

Data Privacy Requests

• Manages and coordinates the processing of each data subject request to ensure its resolution and closure within the required deadlines.
• Processes requests internally and externally by coordinating with the appropriate functional team process owners and vendors via email, Slack, or Zoom calls as necessary.
• Sends timely updates and responses to data subject rights requesters for any possible timeline extension of request processing.
• Maintains the data privacy request tracker, vendor list, and reports such as request volume status, closure rate, issues, and challenges.
• Recommends processing improvements based on gathered information through actual request processing and document sourcing activities.

Data Privacy Laws Monitoring and Field Research Assistance

• Assists in providing regular updates to the legal and regulatory team with the latest news with respect to the development and enforcement of the data privacy and security laws in the EU, US, AU, and other jurisdictions relevant to the company and its businesses.
• Assists in regularly monitoring the current practices in the industry, including but not limited to the use of cookies (e.g., banners and consent), tracking technologies, data subject request processing, etc

Technical Coordination Assistance

• Serves as the data privacy team’s technical coordinator to the technology, data insights, and operations teams.
• Conducts quality checks on the company’s systems and processes involved in data privacy request processing to ensure compliance with data privacy laws, in consultation with the relevant internal system owners (e.g., data retention in various database platforms after data anonymization/pseudonymization)
• Reviews and audits existing internal and vendor processes and technologies to help mitigate data privacy vulnerabilities and prevent potential future privacy risks.
• Assists in investigating data breaches and incidents and works closely with the Senior Compliance Manager in drafting internal and external data privacy breach/incident reports.

What we’re looking for:

• College graduate of any course.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills, including the ability to send comprehensive, coherent, and accurate responses to requesters and instructions to internal and external contacts. Collaborative, friendly, balanced, and inclusive when communicating with cross-functional teams.
• Any related experience to at least three of the following, with a preference for (1) and (2):
  1. U.S. and European privacy laws and data subject request processing
  2. Customer communication through email
  3. Project Management and Documentations Tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)
  4. Cross-functional coordination
• Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy with the ability to thoroughly understand which type of data subject right the customer is requesting to exercise.
• Comfortable in working through a task via electronic means (e.g., email, chat, and task management applications).
• Ability to open, track, manage, and move to complete customer cases.
• Advanced computer skills: using MS Word, MS Excel, Managing emails, Slack, etc.
• Able to present information in forms, tables, and spreadsheets.
• Displays a learner’s attitude (e.g., asks questions, gives feedback, clarifies potential issues, etc.).
• Good time management skills (e.g., ability to prioritize).
• Ability to have phone/web conferencing calls in the early morning or evening with team members in U.S. as necessary.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of database query and any programming language.
• Experience in fraud analysis.
• Intermediate to advanced presentation skills using MS PowerPoint.
• Knows how to create infographic materials in Canva or other similar tools.
• Advanced research skills.

Location: The Regulatory Compliance Analyst position is a work-from-home position for Balsam International Unlimited Philippine ROHQ in Manila. Team members in the Philippines are located within Metro Manila, Bataan, Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Pampanga, Rizal, and Tarlac areas only.

Our must-haves:

• Must be open to joining some face-to-face gatherings, like our monthly functional meetings and quarterly teamwide events.
• Must have a back-up laptop or desktop for use, if primary laptop encounters issues.
• Must have a fast, reliable DSL, Fiber or Broadband connection (not mobile or broadband stick) as the primary internet connection with a minimum actual speed of 10MBPS.
• Must have a back-up internet connection of the same speed, if primary connection becomes spotty.

Status: This is a full-time, permanent position with benefits.

Hardware Provision: Company-issued Laptop will be provided on the first day.

At Balsam International, we strive to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. For permanent, full-time team members, this includes:

• Government-mandated Benefits (SSS, PAG-IBIG, PhilHealth)
• 13th Month Pay
• Paid Leaves. We use time off to rest, go on vacation, or just sleep in! Our paid time off is flexible to our needs.
• Internet Subsidy. With internet allowance, we are set up for success.
• Healthcare Coverage (+ 2 dependents). We worry less about rising medical costs with flexible quality healthcare benefits.
• Maternity, Paternity, and Solo Parent Benefit. We make sure parents are supported while they navigate work and family life.
• Continuous Learning and Professional Development Benefit. Our professional and personal development are fully supported. Whether it be online courses, workshops or books!
• Mental Health Support. We manage work and life's challenges through Mental Health Day breaks, 24/7 professional counselling, and curated webinars.
• Company Incentive. An additional cash-based perk for all our Brandits based on company's performance.
• Meeting & Team Building Allowance. Happy tummies make our meetings more fun and productive!
• Shutdown Week. We can spend more time on things that matter with an additional one week paid time off on top of paid leaves.
• Volunteer Time Off. With two paid days off, we are able to volunteer for advocacies we believe in.
• Bereavement Leave. We get additional paid leaves when a loved one passes to grieve and provide immediate support to our families.

We are looking for a Quality Analyst to join our strategically awesome team!

Qualification:

• Must possess a Bachelor’s/College Degree of any course
• At least 1 year of audit work experience involving calls, files, and processes. Also, engaged in operations calls for onboarding, training, calibration, performance evaluation, coaching, and data management within the BPO industry.
• Must have excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Must be customer service oriented and detail-oriented
• Must be flexible, organized, adaptable and proficient with Microsoft Office applications

Locations:

Mandaluyong Site
Paragon Plaza, Lower Ground Floor, 162 EDSA, Mandaluyong City

Cebu Site
TMSI Lacdon Aliwanay, Balamban, Cebu Province

Bacolod Site
Global Strategic Building, Fordland 2, 2nd & 4th Floor, 11th Street Lacson, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental

Victorias Site
Vic Arcade Building, Ground Floor Osmeña Avenue, Barangay 1, Victorias City

Interested in applying? You may send your resume to Careers@GlobalStrategic.com

Primary Purpose:

Work closely with project team members and the business to ensure a clear understanding of business requirements and solution design

Work with IT and business and 3rd party stakeholders to implement quality and defect free changes into IT systems

Use their business, functional and system knowledge and testing industry experience and knowledge of OW standards to provide input into testing strategy. 

Develops test plans and scenarios to meet the testing strategy and scope.  Prepare for and executes all identified test cycles.  Document testing results, and record and track defects to successful resolution.  Communicate testing status.

Support business UAT testers in the completion of UAT on larger projects.  On smaller projects co-ordinate and lead UAT.  Work with functional and development teams to communicate and resolve defects.

Responsibilities include:

o   Develop, update and maintain testing standards and procedures

o   Provide testing estimates based on requirements

o   Prepare Test Case Scenarios and documentation

o   Prepare test data based on requirements/solution design

o   Support developers and functional analysts with unit testing

o   Execute test scripts for all phases of testing

o   Prepare and deliver solutions training activities to business users where required

o   Work with the business teams to ensure full User Acceptance testing is done prior to business sign-off for deployment.  

o   Keep track of any defects arising from the testing or post-go-live, prioritise defects with the business teams and work with technical teams to resolve

o   Input into test reporting on larger projects. On smaller projects prepare test reporting and communicate status to stakeholders

o   Work with the appropriate business and IT teams to resolve any issues that arise out of the testing process

o   Participate in the release control process (when application changes are transferred from build to test) to ensure that solutions meet business requirements

o   Inform/escalate to appropriate team/s of any issues that may affect the schedule, budget or quality of build changes or the testing process

o   Participate in the deployment and production verification process (when application changes are deployed to production and go through production verification testing and hypercare support) to ensure that solutions meet business requirements

• At least 5 years I.T. experience

• Retail industry highly recommended
• At least 3-5 years testing experience mandatory
• Solid experience with Regression Testing
• Experience with relevant Enterprise Solutions (eg SAP, Salesforce Platform including sales processes, PIM, Gains, NetTikit)
• Experience with other system tools used in testing and documentation highly desirable (eg ALM, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, ServiceNow, Excel)
• Experience working with 3rd party vendors and integrated environments
• Experience working cross functionally
• Experience working in Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Understanding of DevOps

Skills/Knowledge/Attributes

• Strong cross-functional testing experience
• Knowledge/understanding of Corporate Applications systems and IT architecture integration between systems
• Love and have a deep understanding of QA
• Knowledge of Best Practice software testing standards
• Excellent knowledge in testing skills (design test plan and test strategy, writing test cases, executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs)
• Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and experience working with software development projects
• Agile environment experience favourable
• Experience with use of test management or automated test tools
• Ability to liaise effectively with external IT partners
• Critical thinker
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Customer-focused
• Great attention to detail
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work creatively

• Day 1 HMO
• Health Insurance
• 100% Virtual Recruitment Process
• Government Mandated Benefits
• 13 Month Pay
• 12 SL / 12VL
• Work-life balance
• Hybrid Setup
• Salary: 120K - 180K
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