Senior Cloud-Native QA Engineer - API & Microservices

StarHub; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 108,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

StarHub is seeking a Senior Matrixx QA Engineer to own end-to-end QA across cloud-native platforms. You will collaborate with developers, DevOps, product owners and operations to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable applications.

The role emphasizes API and integration testing, defect management, and continuous improvement of testing practices. The candidate should have a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 3 years of QA experience, with strong automation and CI/CD exposure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in QA, software testing, or quality engineering.
• Strong experience in functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, API testing, and defect management.
• Experience testing Java, Spring Boot, microservices, RESTful APIs, and enterprise integration flows.
• Experience with test automation tools and API testing tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, or similar.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and version control tools such as Git.
• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift environments.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including the ability to validate data and investigate defects through queries.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and defect investigation skills.
• Excellent writing, comprehension, communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, prepare, and execute functional, regression, integration, API, system, and end-to-end test cases
• Review business requirements, technical specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify test scenarios and coverage gaps
• Validate microservices, RESTful APIs, batch jobs, messaging flows, and system integrations
• Perform defect analysis, raise clear and detailed bug reports, and work with delivery teams through resolution and retesting
• Support release validation, production verification, and post-deployment quality checks
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts for API, regression, and integration testing
• Support automated testing within CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins
• Test services deployed on OpenShift/Kubernetes environments
• Work closely with development, DevOps, operations, and business teams to ensure quality throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test evidence, defect reports, release validation summaries, and QA sign-off documents

Skills

QA Testing

API Testing

Automation Testing

JUnit

Selenium

Postman

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Postman

REST Assured

Selenium

JUnit

TestNG

Cucumber

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

StarHub is seeking a Senior Matrixx QA Engineer to own end-to-end QA across cloud-native platforms. You will collaborate with developers, DevOps, product owners and operations to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable applications.

The role emphasizes API and integration testing, defect management, and continuous improvement of testing practices. The candidate should have a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 3 years of QA experience, with strong automation and CI/CD exposure.