QA Automation Lead

Description

Are you ready to lead the next evolution of Quality Assurance in digital banking?

We’re hiring a QA Automation Lead who will own the automation testing strategy, drive shift-left testing practices, and embed quality deeply into every stage of our SDLC.

This is a key leadership role where you will guide our teams toward continuous testing, scalable automation, and measurable quality - all to support reliable, secure, and delightful banking experiences.

Key Responsibilities

✅ Automation Strategy & Execution

• Define and lead the end-to-end QA automation roadmap.
• Select and scale modern test frameworks for mobile, web, API, and microservices.
• Embed automated testing in CI/CD pipelines (AWS Pipeline, Jenkins).
• Drive test data strategy and environment readiness for automated runs.

🧠 Shift-Left & Continuous Testing

• Advocate for quality engineering from design to production.
• Introduce shift-left testing and coach and driving feature teams on writing reliable integration tests, component test and API and E2E Test.
• Collaborate with DevOps(Pipeline) Team to enable parallel test execution and fast feedback loops.

📊 Quality Metrics & Insights

• Establish test coverage, pass rate, defect leakage KPIs, and trend dashboards.
• Provide actionable insights using tools like XRAY, TestRail, or custom dashboards.
• Review failures to root-cause issues and close quality gaps upstream.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Team Leadership & Coaching

• Lead and coaching a growing automation QA team across Portfolio.
• Pair testing sessions, and QA guilds with engineering team and QA Team to uplift skills and practices.
• Provide clear direction, feedback, and career guidance for QA Team.

🤝 Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work closely with Engineering, Product, and Security to align on quality objectives.
• Ensure automation efforts scale across portfolio and platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Backend..).
• Lead initiatives that improve release confidence, cycle time, and regression resilience.

Requirements

🛠️ Technical Skills

• 5+ years in test automation with 2+ years in a lead role.
• Solid coding skills in JavaScript, Java, Python, or similar for writing test scripts.
• Experience with frameworks like Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, or REST Assured.
• Familiar with BDD/TDD, service virtualization, and mocking/stubbing tools.
• Exposure to Microservices, Event-driven architecture, and Serverless functions.

🎯 Mindset & Experience

• Strong advocate of test automation as a product enabler, not a QA function.
• Experience in high-regulation environments (banking, fintech, payments preferred).
• Proven ability to lead through influence, clarity, and accountability.

💬 Soft Skills

• Passionate communicator, motivator, and hands-on leader.
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and introducing best practices.
• Curious, analytical, and always optimizing the test strategy for better coverage and speed.

Benefits

• Meal and parking allowance are covered by the company
• Full benefits and salary rank during probation
• Insurances as Vietnamese labor law and premium health care for you and your family without seniority compulsory
• Performance bonus up to 2 months
• 13th month salary pro-rata
• 15-day annual leave+ 3-day sick leave + 1 birthday leave + 1 Christmas leave
• SMART goals and clear career opportunities (technical seminar, conference, and career talk) – we focus on your development
• Values-driven, international working environment, and agile culture
• Overseas travel opportunities for training and working related
• Internal Hackathons and company’s events (team building, coffee run, blue card…)
• Work-life balance 40-hr per week from Mon to Fri