Senior SQA Lead for Fintech Trading Platforms

NEXT Ventures; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

NEXT Ventures in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is seeking a Senior SQA Lead to own software quality across trading platforms, dashboards, and payment flows. You will build and lead the QA function, set testing strategy, and ensure every release is stable, secure and production-ready for real-time traders.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product and DevOps to shift-left quality, define metrics, scale automation, and drive end-to-end testing across web, mobile and API products in a fast-growing

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software QA with leadership experience.
• Hands-on with automation across UI/API.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD.
• Strong SQL and data validation skills.
• Excellent communication and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end QA strategy, standards and processes across web, mobile and API products.
• Lead, mentor and grow a team of manual and automation QA engineers; set goals, review work and build capability.
• Design and scale test automation frameworks (UI, API, regression) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive functional, regression, integration, performance and security testing for high-volume, real-time trading systems.
• Own release readiness: test planning, go/no-go criteria, defect triage and post-release quality reviews.
• Define and report quality metrics to engineering leadership; push back on releases with data.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation frameworks

CI/CD integration

Strong communicator

Agile/Scrum

SQL knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

ISTQB Certification

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

Appium

Postman

REST Assured

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Jira

Xray

TestRail

JMeter

k6

Gatling

Job description

NEXT Ventures in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is seeking a Senior SQA Lead to own software quality across trading platforms, dashboards, and payment flows. You will build and lead the QA function, set testing strategy, and ensure every release is stable, secure and production-ready for real-time traders.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product and DevOps to shift-left quality, define metrics, scale automation, and drive end-to-end testing across web, mobile and API products in a fast-growing