{"id":1274988,"url":"https://alion.io/job/paynet-principal-qa-engineer","title":"Principal QA Engineer","company":{"id":2112342,"name":"PayNet","domain":"paynet.my","url":"https://alion.io/company/paynet-my","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"BrioHR","truth_index":null},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Malaysia"],"countries":["MY"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":13500,"max_usd":38000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":154},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Cypress","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"JMeter","optional":false},{"name":"k6","optional":false},{"name":"Playwright","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Robot Framework","optional":false},{"name":"Selenium","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"OWASP","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-26T01:11:32Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-26","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T13:51:25Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Why PayNet / Why Now\nContribute to Malaysia's national payment infrastructure that processes millions of transactions daily and supports critical economic activities.\nPlay a key role in the modernization and continuous evolution of NextSwitch, one of the country's most important financial technology platforms.\nJoin an organization where reliability, resilience, security, and operational excellence are non-negotiable engineering principles.\nInfluence quality engineering practices at enterprise scale and help shape the future of payment system testing and automation.\nWork alongside highly skilled engineers solving complex challenges in transaction processing, system integration, performance, and platform stability.\nTL; DR\nOwn and drive the quality engineering strategy for PayNet's mission-critical payment switching platforms.\nLead automation, performance, and quality initiatives that improve platform reliability and release confidence.\nPartner with engineering, architecture, operations, and business stakeholders to reduce delivery risk and improve software quality.\nMentor engineers and establish modern testing practices across multiple teams and delivery streams.\nWhy This Role Matters\nNextSwitch operates as national critical infrastructure where software quality directly impacts payment transactions, financial institutions, and end users nationwide.\nThe increasing scale and complexity of transaction processing require advanced automation, performance testing, and quality engineering capabilities.\nThis role ensures quality is engineered into the platform throughout the software development lifecycle rather than validated only at the end.\nThe role provides technical leadership in establishing testing standards, governance, and automation frameworks across multiple teams.\nThe role contributes directly to platform resilience, operational stability, and customer trust.\nWhat You Will Actually Do\nDefine and drive quality engineering strategy covering automation, API testing, integration testing, performance testing, and release validation.\nDesign, implement, and govern scalable automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.\nLead performance testing initiatives to ensure platform readiness for increasing transaction volumes and peak demand scenarios.\nCollaborate with development, architecture, DevOps, and operations teams to improve platform reliability and reduce production risk.\nMentor engineers and establish testing standards, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives across delivery teams.\nExamples of This Role in Practice\nDevelop a testing strategy to support a major NextSwitch enhancement while maintaining production stability and release confidence.\nLead end-to-end validation of a new payment service involving multiple banking and ecosystem integrations.\nEstablish performance testing frameworks capable of validating transaction throughput, latency, and resilience under production-scale loads.\nDrive automation coverage improvements that significantly reduce manual testing effort and improve release velocity.\nInvestigate recurring production defects and implement quality engineering improvements that prevent future occurrences.\nWhat Will Help You Succeed\nRequired\nStrong experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Robot Framework, or equivalent.\nHands-on experience with API testing, integration testing, and automated regression testing.\nExperience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or similar.\nStrong performance testing experience using JMeter, BlazeMeter, LoadRunner, K6, or equivalent.\nExperience working in Agile software delivery environments and Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.\nStrong programming and scripting skills in languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, or similar.\nGood to Have\nExperience in banking, payments, financial services, or transaction processing platforms. \nExperience supporting high-availability, high-throughput, mission-critical systems. \nKnowledge of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern observability practices. \nExperience with security testing, OWASP principles, and vulnerability assessment. \nExperience with test data management and service virtualization.\nKnowledge of payment ecosystems, switching platforms, ISO 8583, or related financial messaging standards.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4488,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T01:11:32Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:15","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/paynet-principal-qa-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/paynet-principal-qa-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T02:47:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1569,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3431,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}