Principal QA Engineering Leader, Payments Platform

Fairview International School

Malaysia

On-site

MYR 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

PayNet is seeking a senior Quality Engineering leader to own and drive the automation, performance, and quality program for Malaysia's national payments platform NextSwitch. You will shape testing standards, governance, and automation frameworks across multiple teams, ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and release confidence.

You will mentor engineers, partner with engineering, architecture, and operations, and elevate testing practices across delivery streams to minimize risk and

Qualifications

  • Design and implement test automation frameworks
  • Hands-on API testing and automated regression testing
  • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
  • Lead performance testing for scale and peak demand
  • Experience in Agile delivery environments and strong analytical skills

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive quality engineering strategy covering automation, API testing, integration testing, performance testing, and release validation.
  • Design, implement, and govern scalable automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Lead performance testing initiatives to ensure platform readiness for increasing transaction volumes and peak demand scenarios.
  • Collaborate with development, architecture, DevOps, and operations teams to improve platform reliability and reduce production risk.
  • Mentor engineers and establish testing standards, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives across delivery teams.

Skills

Test automation strategy
API testing
CI/CD integration
Performance testing
Agile software delivery

Tools

Selenium
Playwright
Cypress
Robot Framework
Jenkins
GitLab CI/CD
Azure DevOps
JMeter
K6
LoadRunner
BlazeMeter

Job description

PayNet is seeking a senior Quality Engineering leader to own and drive the automation, performance, and quality program for Malaysia's national payments platform NextSwitch. You will shape testing standards, governance, and automation frameworks across multiple teams, ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and release confidence.

You will mentor engineers, partner with engineering, architecture, and operations, and elevate testing practices across delivery streams to minimize risk and

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