CAT Team Lead — Hardware Validation

Centific; Penang; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Centific is seeking a dedicated validation-focused professional to own the end-to-end validation execution in line with CAT standards. You will review Jira tasks daily, escalate risks early with recovery plans, and coordinate task owners to ensure timely completion.

You will shape testing plans, enforce consistent Jira tagging, and drive high-quality bug reporting while contributing to dashboards and performance metrics.

Qualifications

• Own validation execution per CAT operating standards.
• Review all team Jira tasks daily to confirm on track and correctly scoped.
• Escalate risks and blockers with a clear recovery plan.

Responsibilities

• Break down validation plans into taskified work with clear title, assignee, description, deadline, and status.
• Define and assign owners for all test areas; balance coverage against headcount and lab capacity.
• Maintain per-build test trackers (one tracker per build).
• Enforce unified test case naming format and Jira tagging.
• Drive high-quality bug reporting: reproducible, triaged, and followed through to closure.
• Contribute to Jira dashboards for task completion rate, bug volume, and on-time completion rate.
• Coach team members toward absolute ownership and accountability.
• Run regular reviews and MoM tracking of team work and performance metrics.
• Report to the US CAT Team Lead with clear, timely updates to cross-functional partners.

Skills

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Test planning

Team coaching

Scheduling

Tools

Jira

Job description

About Centific

Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets—to create contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets; fine-tuned, industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our zero-distance innovation™ solutions for GenAI can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50% faster. Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets.

About Job Execution Ownership

• Act as the primary owner for the team's overall validation execution and adherence to CAT operating standards.
• Review all team Jira tasks daily to confirm they are on track, correctly scoped, and will meet committed deadlines.
• Escalate risks and blockers early with a clear recovery plan — not just a status.

Planning & Allocation

• Break down product validation plans into taskified work: clear title, single assignee, detailed description (what to test, how, expected outcome), firm deadline, accurate status.
• Define and assign owners for all test areas; balance coverage against headcount and lab/DUT capacity.
• Maintain per-build test case trackers (one tracker per build — no mixing across builds).

Standards & Process

• Enforce the unified test case naming format and standardized Jira tagging
• Drive high-quality bug reporting: clear, reproducible, triaged, and actively followed up through verification and closure.
• Contribute to Jira dashboards for task completion rate, bug volume, bug verification status, and on-time completion rate.

People & Communication

• Coach team members toward absolute ownership: each owner is the single point of contact for their task and can answer questions directly without deferring to leads.
• Run regular reviews and Month-over-Month (MoM) tracking of team work and performance metrics.
• Report into and support the US CAT Team Lead; provide clear, timely written updates to cross-functional partners.

Centific is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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