QA Software Engineer

About the role

Embark on a role where precision meets real-world impact. As a QA Engineer at SPEED, you will play a critical role in safeguarding system reliability, accuracy, and compliance.

Your mission is to ensure every release is stable, secure, and production-ready particularly in areas involving data integrity, complex logic, regulatory workflows, and system integrations.

Working within a focused, cross-functional team, you will collaborate closely with product owners, designers, and engineers while maintaining strong ownership of product quality. This role is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, systematic, and takes pride in delivering defect-free systems.

Key responsibilities

• Design structured test plans, test cases, and testing strategies aligned with sprint deliverables and product requirements
• Execute comprehensive functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing to ensure new features and existing modules operate correctly
• Validate transaction logic, reporting accuracy, and reconciliation flows to ensure data integrity and regulatory compliance
• Test REST APIs, third-party integrations, and system workflows to ensure correct request/response handling and error management
• Document defects with reproducible steps, severity classification, and impact analysis to enable efficient resolution
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright
• Contribute to building and improving automation frameworks to increase regression efficiency and release confidence
• Work closely with developers and product stakeholders to refine acceptance criteria and clarify edge cases
• Participate in release readiness checks and UAT support to ensure stable go-live deployments
• Maintain test documentation, QA workflows, and contribute to internal quality standards

Requirements for this role, you will need to have:

1. Applicable to Malaysian only.
2. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field
3. At least 3–5 years of hands-on experience in software testing for web-based systems
4. Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail
5. Ability to work independently with structured time management
6. Clear communication skills for effective collaboration with technical teams
7. A proactive mindset with strong ownership of quality

Must-Have Skills

Testing & QA Fundamentals

• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies
• Experience writing structured and comprehensive test cases
• Experience conducting regression, integration, and UAT testing
• Ability to classify and prioritize defects based on severity

API Testing

• Experience using tools such as Postman or similar API testing platforms
• Understanding of RESTful APIs, JSON responses and XML/SOAP

Web Application Testing

• Familiarity with frontend behavior, validation rules, and browser compatibility testing

Databases

• Basic understanding of SQL queries to validate backend data accuracy

Version Control & Collaboration

• Familiarity with Git workflows
• Experience working in cross-functional engineering teams

Bonus Skills

• Experience testing accounting or financial software
• Understanding of double-entry accounting principles (debit/credit logic)
• Exposure to test automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, etc.)
• CI/CD testing experience
• Performance testing knowledge
• Familiarity with Malaysian tax compliance systems (SST, e-Invoice integration)
• Experience testing microservices architecture