Senior Automation QA Engineer

Who are we?

iPiD empowers financial institutions, payment service providers, and enterprises with a single global API for Know Your Payee (KYP) verification—reducing fraud, reducing costs, staying compliant, and streamlining cross-border payments, globally.

We are a fast-growing fintech startup, founded by a global team of industry veterans from iconic organizations like SWIFT and Thomson Reuters. Supported by leading investors such as Monk's Hill Ventures, Jungle Ventures and Saison Capital, and guided by an advisory team featuring C-suite leaders from Microsoft, Commonwealth Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Our team combines global expertise with local insights; we are present across key cities—including Singapore, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, London, New York, and Dubai.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for a detail-oriented Senior QA Automation Engineer to help us shape and strengthen our QA function. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated test suites that ensure our products meet a high bar for quality and reliability. You’ll work closely with both engineering and product teams to identify automation opportunities, define test plans, and integrate tests into our CI/CD pipeline.

This is a full-time position reporting directly to the Tech Lead. This position would be based in KL Eco City, Kuala Lumpur.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design, create and maintain automated testing suites
• Write automated test with Cucumber BDD in Gherkin syntax that can be integrated with our CI/CD pipeline
• Contribute to test execution in containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Work with the team to come up with test plans that fulfil product requirements
• Ensure overall quality of our products
• Maintain documentation for automation processes and test cases
  

Requirements

• 3 years minimum working experience in software engineering quality assurance, with at least 1 year experience of API testing
• Strong proficiency in automated test concept and strategy
• Basic working knowledge of Docker (building images, running containers, understanding Dockerfiles).
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks that use Gherkin syntax, such as Cucumber or Karate.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts, including pods, deployments, services, logs, and configmaps is an added advantage.
• Ability to write and interpret Gherkin feature files (Given/When/Then)
• Strong understanding of API testing and integration testing workflows.
• Demonstrate tracked records of planning and developing automated test
• Proficient using automated testing tools such as Cucumber, Karate, Postman with Newman, Selenium or any equivalents
• Solid familiarity with agile methodology and distributed cloud architecture
• Strong analytical skills, detail-oriented, and solid problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written English skills
• Ability to work independently and as a reliable team player
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Experience in a globally distributed startup or fast-paced environment is a plus
• Authorization to work in Malaysia is required. Working in the KL office (KL Eco City) 3 days a week
  
  **Note: This position does not offer visa sponsorship as such only Malaysia citizens or PR applicants are welcomed

What do we offer?

You will work with a team of world-class fintech and payments veterans to shape up the future of payments, and will also have:

• Excellent growth opportunities in global payment services technology
• Flexible and collaborative work environment
• Competitive salary
• Discretionary performance bonus
• Medical insurance and wellness flexible spending fund
• Laptop and accessories