QA Lead - Automation-First Quality Engineering

Prudential Services Asia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Services Asia is seeking a seasoned QA Lead to drive an organisation-wide transformation toward built-in quality, automation-first development, and engineering excellence in Kuala Lumpur. You will lead a pool of QA Automation Engineers embedded across product squads and set the Golden Standard for test automation and SDLC best practices.

With 10+ years in software quality engineering and a track record of elevating engineering maturity, you will partner with multiple engineering and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software quality engineering with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Deep experience in test automation frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium), API testing and CI/CD integration.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud‑native engineering practices (microservices, DevOps, IaC).
• Proven experience elevating engineering maturity or leading quality transformation in a squad/tribe model.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the enterprise‑wide Quality Engineering strategy aligned with Shift‑Left and Automation‑First principles.
• Establish the Golden Standard for test automation, quality gates, and SDLC best practices across squads.
• Drive the transformation from manual QA to automation‑led quality engineering (<10% QA headcount of total engineering).
• Build and maintain high‑quality automation frameworks, test infrastructure, and reusable tooling.
• Coach and uplift engineering squads to achieve self‑testing capability and reduce dependency on centralized testers.
• Establish Quality Chapter governance and facilitate best practice sharing, standards alignment, and skill uplift.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Digital Engineering, Platform Engineering, and SRE teams to embed quality end‑to‑end.
• Build talent pathways for automation engineers and manage vendor partners for specialist testing.

Skills

Automation Strategy

QA Leadership

Quality Metrics

Vendor Management

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Selenium

CI/CD

Job description

Prudential Services Asia is seeking a seasoned QA Lead to drive an organisation-wide transformation toward built-in quality, automation-first development, and engineering excellence in Kuala Lumpur. You will lead a pool of QA Automation Engineers embedded across product squads and set the Golden Standard for test automation and SDLC best practices.

With 10+ years in software quality engineering and a track record of elevating engineering maturity, you will partner with multiple engineering and