Test and Quality Engineer, Automation

Maybank; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Maybank is seeking a Senior QA Automation professional to own the test strategy and quality gates for its enterprise automation portfolio. The role will design repeatable tests across functional, integration, regression, resilience, security and operational-readiness domains.

You will develop automated and manual tests for APIs, workflows and integrations, ensuring traceability, evidence and defect analytics are captured in controlled environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related discipline.
• Typically 5+ years in software, infrastructure, platform or automation testing and quality assurance.
• Experience testing APIs, workflows, infrastructure automation and integrated enterprise systems.
• Experience creating traceability, test evidence and defect analytics in controlled environments.
• ISTQB, DevOps, cloud, security or automation certifications are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy, quality gates and acceptance evidence for enterprise automation portfolio.
• Define test levels, environments, data, entry/exit criteria, traceability and responsibilities.
• Develop automated and manual test cases for workflows, integrations, failure paths and recovery.
• Enforce code-quality, test-completion, defect and release-readiness criteria.
• Validate runbooks, monitoring, support, backup/restore, rollback and service readiness.

Skills

Test strategy

Risk-based testing

Traceability

Automation testing (Python)

API testing

CI/CD quality gates

Education

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

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Static analysis tools

Python automation frameworks

Job description

Own the test strategy, quality gates and acceptance evidence for the enterprise automation portfolio. Design repeatable functional, integration, regression, resilience, security and operational-readiness tests to reduce production risk.

2. Principal Accountabilities

Accountability

Supporting Activities

Expected Outcomes

Test strategy and planning

Define test levels, environments, data, entry/exit criteria, traceability and responsibilities.

Complete test coverage aligned to risk and acceptance criteria.

Develop automated and manual test cases for workflows, integrations, failure paths and recovery.

Repeatable evidence of expected and exception behavior.

Quality gates

Enforce code-quality, test-completion, defect and release-readiness criteria.

Only quality-assured changes progress to production.

Triage defects, analyze patterns, track remediation and verify fixes.

Defects closed with evidence and recurring causes addressed.

Operational acceptance

Validate runbooks, monitoring, support, backup/restore, rollback and service readiness.

Automation is supportable before BAU handover.

3. Success Measures

Critical defects are detected before production.

Regression coverage and automated test reuse increase.

Release decisions are supported by complete, traceable evidence.

Recurring defect patterns lead to engineering improvements.

4. Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related discipline.

Typically 5+ years in software, infrastructure, platform or automation testing and quality assurance.

Experience testing APIs, workflows, infrastructure automation and integrated enterprise systems.

Experience creating traceability, test evidence and defect analytics in controlled environments.

ISTQB, DevOps, cloud, security or automation certifications are advantageous.

5. Technical and Functional Competencies

Test strategy, risk-based testing, traceability and acceptance management.

Automation testing using Python or suitable frameworks; API and workflow testing.

Git/CI/CD quality gates, linting, static analysis and regression automation.

Failure injection, rollback, idempotency, performance, resilience and operational-readiness testing.

Defect management, test reporting and evidence retention.

Enterprise mindset with strong accountability and delivery discipline.

Clear written and verbal communication, including executive and technical audiences.

Ability to challenge constructively, make evidence-based decisions and manage ambiguity.

Collaboration across business, technology, architecture, security, risk, operations and vendors.

Commitment to documentation, knowledge transfer and continuous improvement.