Test Development Engineer (Payments)

HoYoverse
Singapore
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience with payment systems and AI-driven testing.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 2–5 years of test development experience and a background in payment systems or fintech
    — “Bachelor's degree or above with 2–5 years of testing or test-development experience”
  • Individuals skilled in building automation frameworks with AI agents or LLMs
    — “Hands-on practice with AI agents or LLMs in testing: able to write skills, scripts and tools to extend agent capabilities”
  • Professionals comfortable with cross-team coordination and end-to-end validation workflows
    — “Take ownership of cross-team delivery, coordinating with product, engineering, operations and third-party teams to resolve collaboration blockers”

Things to consider

  • Must demonstrate proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, or Go for test script development
    — “Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Java or Go)”
  • Strong command of both English and advanced Chinese is required for internal communication
    — “Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and advanced Chinese”
  • Candidates should be prepared to work in a global environment with offices in multiple regions
    — “expand our content production, technology research, and publishing duties through operations in offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with payment flows and common failure scenarios in your resume and interviews
    — “Experience testing payments, transactions, e-commerce or fintech preferred, with a solid understanding of payment flows and common failure scenarios”
  • Showcase your ability to build and manage load-testing pipelines with tools like JMeter or Locust
    — “Hands-on performance and load testing experience (JMeter, Locust or in-house platforms)”
  • Emphasize your ability to independently investigate issues using databases and logs
    — “Solid knowledge of operating systems and networking, comfortable with databases (MySQL, MongoDB) and logs for independent issue investigation”
  • Demonstrate your understanding of user-centric payment expectations and how failures impact them
    — “A user-centric mindset: able to understand what players really expect in the payment flow and how failures feel to them”
  • Include examples of your work with test automation frameworks and agent-driven validation
    — “Develop agent skills, tools and automation frameworks, improving knowledge integration, task orchestration, result validation and failure handling”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • owning quality assurance for payment services
  • building agent-driven integration validation pipelines
  • improving test coverage and efficiency
Typical background
software testingpayments and transactions testingAI and automation

Skills & requirements

Required

Test DevelopmentPerformance TestingLoad TestingAI IntegrationCross-team Coordination

Preferred

Passion For GamesMulti-currency And Risk & Compliance ExperienceKubernetes-related Testing Experience

Stack & domain

Quality AssurancePayments TestingPerformance TestingLoad TestingAutomation FrameworksAI AgentsScriptingOperating SystemsNetworkingDatabasesLogsCapacity EvaluationTest OrchestrationCommunicationLeadershipCuriosityInitiativeAttention To DetailPaymentsWeb Top-up Services

About the role

Original posting from HoYoverse via Ashby

HoYoverse is committed to providing immersive virtual world experiences to players around the world. We have brought fans popular games including Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, and Zenless Zone Zero, as well as a wide range of entertainment content.

Community is at the heart of everything we do. We are devoted to engaging fans and fostering an enthusiastic and inclusive global community.

Pushing the boundaries of imagination, we consistently explore cutting-edge game development technologies.

In the future, we will continue to expand our content production, technology research, and publishing duties through operations in offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas.

When you apply to a position with HoYoverse, we will process your personal data. To learn more, please review our comprehensive Global Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy https://www.hoyoverse.com/en-us/legal/recruitment-privacy-policy.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Own quality assurance for payment and web top-up services. Participate in requirements and technical design reviews, identify risks through code, configuration and past issues, and define test strategies and assess quality.
  • Drive test delivery in collaboration with AI agents, covering functional, performance and stability testing. Verify results, close coverage gaps, drive issue resolution and take responsibility for quality conclusions.
  • Build agent-driven integration validation and load-testing pipelines for new games and payment channels. Connect configuration checks, test data preparation and end-to-end validation; orchestrate load-test scenarios, execution and metrics analysis to build reusable capabilities.
  • Develop agent skills, tools and automation frameworks, improving knowledge integration, task orchestration, result validation and failure handling to increase test coverage, accuracy and efficiency.
  • Take ownership of cross-team delivery, coordinating with product, engineering, operations and third-party teams to resolve collaboration blockers, improve workflows and increase delivery efficiency.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • Bachelor's degree or above with 2–5 years of testing or test-development experience;
  • Experience testing payments, transactions, e-commerce or fintech preferred, with a solid understanding of payment flows and common failure scenarios;
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Java or Go) and the ability to build test scripts or tools independently;
  • Solid knowledge of operating systems and networking, comfortable with databases (MySQL, MongoDB) and logs for independent issue investigation and data verification;
  • Hands-on performance and load testing experience (JMeter, Locust or in-house platforms) and familiarity with capacity evaluation methodologies;
  • A user-centric mindset: able to understand what players really expect in the payment flow and how failures feel to them, and to prioritise issues accordingly;
  • Hands-on practice with AI agents or LLMs in testing: able to write skills, scripts and tools to extend agent capabilities, or a strong drive for test orchestration and automation;
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and advanced Chinese, to liaise with teams and review internal documentation;
  • Proactive, able to drive issues to closure and collaborate across teams.

Nice to have: passion for games; multi-currency and risk & compliance experience; Kubernetes-related testing experience; experience building test pipelines or agent capabilities from scratch.

We are an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds are key to bringing our concepts to life. If you're looking to play a key role in creating the best immersive virtual world experience for our users, we invite you to join our team.

Source: HoYoverse careers (Ashby)

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