Lead - Software Quality Assurance

Axonect; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Axonect seeks an experienced UAT Lead to coordinate planning, execution and sign-off of User Acceptance Testing for the CoMP platform, ensuring alignment with approved requirements and go-live readiness.

You will own the UAT strategy, test scenarios, defect lifecycle and progress reporting, coordinating with business testers, SMEs, SIT/development teams and data migration.

Strong communication, risk management and ability to meet tight timelines during peak periods are essential.

Qualifications

• Define UAT strategy, entry/exit criteria and sign-off framework.
• Develop and maintain UAT plan, scenarios and traceability.
• Coordinate and schedule UAT execution across users/workstreams.
• Facilitate day-to-day UAT execution with testers, SMEs and tech teams.
• Own central UAT defect log and end-to-end lifecycle.
• Track and report UAT progress, coverage and readiness.

Responsibilities

• Define the UAT strategy and sign-off framework.
• Develop and maintain UAT plan, scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate UAT execution across business users and workstreams.
• Log and triage defects; coordinate retesting and closure.
• Track UAT progress, test coverage and readiness.
• Coordinate with Migration Lead to validate migrated data in UAT.
• Drive UAT to completion and obtain formal sign-off for go-live.

Skills

Test planning

Scheduling

Coordination

Stakeholder management

Execution management

Resource coordination

Test execution tracking

Defect log administration

Triage and retesting

Traceability to requirements

UAT governance

Communication

Job description

Role Purpose

Lead the planning, coordination and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the CoMP platform, ensuring thesolution is validated against approved business requirements & acceptance criteria and is ready for go-live. The UAT Leadserves as the single point of coordination for all UAT activities, with accountability for UAT scheduling, business tester andresource coordination, daily test execution, test progress tracking, defect log administration, defect resolution andretesting coordination across business, SIT/development, migration and project teams. The role is responsible for drivingUAT activities to completion within the agreed project timeline, proactively managing risks, issues and blockers, providingclear visibility of UAT and go-live readiness, and securing formal business sign-off as a prerequisite for productiondeployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the UAT strategy, approach, entry/exit criteria and sign-off framework for CoMP, aligned to the approved BRD/HLD and overall project delivery and go-live milestones.
• Develop and maintain the UAT plan, test scenarios and test cases, ensuring full traceability back to business requirements and clearly defined acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate and schedule UAT execution across business users and workstreams, including test-cycle planning,resource allocation, tester availability and dependencies, with particular attention to the year-end / festivetesting window.
• Facilitate day-to-day UAT execution, including daily coordination with business testers, SMEs (Subject MatterExperts) and technical teams; monitoring planned versus completed test cases; logging and triaging defects;coordinating retesting; and tracking resolution with SIT / development teams.
• Own and administer the central UAT defect log and end-to-end defect lifecycle, including severity and priorityclassification, assignment and ownership, escalation of blockers, resolution tracking, retesting and closureagainst agreed thresholds.
• Track and report UAT progress, test coverage, defect status and overall readiness (% completion), including testcases planned/executed, pass/fail/blocked status, completion percentage, outstanding critical defects and keyblockers, to the Project Manager and Steering Committee.
• Coordinate with the Migration Lead to validate migrated data within UAT, ensuring data accuracy, completenessand business acceptance are incorporated into the relevant test scenarios.
• Drive UAT to completion and obtain formal business sign-off as a prerequisite for go-live, ensuring all agreed exitcriteria and critical defect thresholds have been met.
• Identify UAT risks and issues and dependencies early and drive mitigation with the Project Manager and businessstakeholders with timely escalation of issues that may impact the UAT schedule or go-live readiness.
• Lead daily UAT governance and coordination, including execution status reviews, tester/resource availability,defect triage, blocker resolution, retesting priorities and follow-up of outstanding actions.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Strongtestplanning,scheduling,coordination,stakeholdermanagement skills and execution management skills.
• Strong resource and stakeholder coordination across business, technical and vendor teams.
• Handsonexperienceintestexecutiontracking,defectlogadministration, triage, retesting and closure.
• Ability to translate business requirements into test scenarios, test cases, coverage and acceptance criteria withclear traceability.
• Strong daily UAT coordination, progress monitoring, risk/issue management and escalation capability.
• Clear and concise UAT status reporting, including test completion, defect status, blockers and go-live readiness
• Structured defect management with clear, concise reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Able to work to tight timelines and coordinate testing through peak / festive periods.
• Strong communication and facilitation across business and technical teams, organisational skills, with the abilityto drive UAT through to formal business sign-off.