QA Engineer (ShopeePay) - Sea Labs

amIT Global Solutions Sdn Bhd; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 180,000,000 - 300,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sea Labs Indonesia seeks a QA Engineer to design and execute tests for payment and financial workflows, ensuring reliability across markets. You will develop automated tests for APIs and backend services, and collaborate with developers, PMs, UX designers and operations to safeguard availability and usability of core functions.

You will test critical scenarios such as payments, retries, reconciliations, and edge cases while advancing CI/CD quality gates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of QA/testing experience.
• Experience testing backend services, REST APIs, microservices, or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman, Swagger, REST Assured, or similar tools.
• Basic to intermediate SQL for data validation and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on UI/Mobile Automation using Playwright, Cypress, or WebdriverIO.
• Strong Python/JavaScript/TypeScript programming/scripting.
• Understanding of QA principles, defect lifecycle, and Agile practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Good communication and ability to work with international teams.
• Willingness to learn AI to enhance quality.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute test plans for payment/financial products, APIs, integrations, and financial workflows.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and production validation testing.
• Test critical scenarios such as payment success/failure, retries, timeouts, duplicates, reversals, refunds, and reconciliation.
• Develop and maintain automated tests for APIs and backend services.
• Identify, investigate, and track defects; drive fixes with engineers.
• Participate in release quality assessment, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis.
• Improve test coverage, QA processes, automation frameworks, and CI/CD gates.
• Collaborate with local/regional teams to deliver reliable payment services across markets.

Skills

QA experience

API testing

SQL queries

Automation testing

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Agile methodology

Cross-functional teamwork

Attention to detail

Willingness to learn AI

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in CS/SE/IT

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

WebdriverIO

Postman

Swagger

REST Assured

Job description

About the Team

About Sea Labs Indonesia

Sea Labs is at the core of the Sea platforms development, supporting diverse business lines from e-commerce, supply chain, games, payment and finance, among many others. The strong growth and unique positioning of Sea's e-commerce business, Shopee, spurred the launch of Sea Labs Indonesia. Since its inception, the group of passionate engineers have charted the course to drive the best experience for our users in Indonesia, many of which solutions are even adapted to other markets in the region.

Sea's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most innocent problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience world-class projects first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do. Together with our passionate and driven teams, you'll get to develop your skills, build on industry knowledge and collaborate with global teams in a dynamic space. Browse our Sea Labs Indonesia team openings to see how you can make an impact with us.

About The Team

Our R&D team works across Indonesia, Singapore, and China. We provide secure and reliable financial products and payment services for millions of merchants and users across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and other markets. Our systems support e-commerce, food delivery, digital payments, and a wide range of financial services.

Together, we aim to reach the forefront of cashless payment technology by providing a more accessible, secure and reliable payment network that empowers individuals as well as micro, small and medium enterprises around the globe.

About The Role

As a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer, you will work with some of the most talented minds in the world, collaborating with fellow Developers, Product Managers, User Experience Designers and Operation Engineers to design, test and safeguard availability, performance and usability of our business-critical functionalities that delight both internal business and external end-users.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers across countries and functions, solving complex distributed-systems and payment-platform challenges at significant scale. This role offers strong opportunities to deepen your expertise in QA & AI technology.

Job Description

• Design and execute test plans for payment/financial products, APIs, integrations, and financial workflows.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and production validation testing.
• Test critical scenarios such as payment success and failure, retries, timeouts, duplicate requests, reversals, refunds, and reconciliation.
• Develop and maintain automated tests for APIs and backend services.
• Identify, investigate, and track defects; work with engineers to drive issues to resolution.
• Participate in release quality assessment, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis.
• Improve test coverage, QA processes, automation frameworks, and CI/CD quality gates.
• Collaborate with local/regional teams to deliver reliable payment services across multiple markets.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience in QA, software testing, test engineering, or quality assurance.
• Experience testing backend services, REST APIs, microservices, or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman, Swagger, REST Assured, or similar tools.
• Basic to intermediate SQL skills for data validation and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience in UI and Mobile Automation framework such as Playwright, Cypress, or WebdriverIO.
• Strong programming/scripting skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Understanding of software testing principles, defect lifecycle, and Agile development practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work with international, cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to learn AI, use AI to facilitate and enhance quality .