Senior QA Automation Engineer

At Bjak, we're on a mission to provide access to affordable and sustainable financial services for people in ASEAN. Headquartered in Malaysia, Bjak is the largest insurance portal in Southeast Asia. Our main portal, Bjak.com, assists millions in finding the best value and highest coverage insurance policies. Our investments in cutting-edge technology such as Custom API, trading systems, and data science enable easy access to financial services that were previously inaccessible or difficult to understand.

Our core strengths lie in navigating complex regulations and environments, creating some of the most innovative products in the world. For instance, we are the first platform globally to simplify and offer investment-linked life and health insurance online, coupled with an instant talk-to-agent service.

If you enjoy building cutting-edge platforms and ecosystems to provide equal access to financial services for the masses, we'd love to speak with you!

Your Mission:

• Design, develop, and enhance robust automation frameworks using modern tools (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium).

• Write clean, maintainable automated test suites for web, API services, and other application types.

• Integrate automated tests into Git-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) to support continuous delivery.

• Execute and manage functional, regression, integration, and specialized performance tests.

• Participate in requirement reviews to define test scenarios, identify edge cases, and ensure maximum test coverage.

• Perform root cause analysis of failures and collaborate directly with development and product teams to resolve defects and ensure quality metrics are met.

• Maintain test data, mocks, and environments, and build specialized tooling (e.g., monitoring/reporting dashboards) to improve QA efficiency.

• Document test plans, test cases, automation design decisions, and contribute to the continuous improvement of overall QA processes and best practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields.

• 3+ years of experience in QA Automation for backend services and cloud infrastructure.

• Strong experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or Appium.

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript is a must

• Solid understanding of REST APIs, automated API testing (Postman, Newman, REST Assured).

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git).

• Knowledge of software testing methodologies and QA best practices.

• Familiarity with microservices, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with performance testing (Locust, k6, JMeter).

• Experience with contract testing (PACT).

• Security testing fundamentals (OWASP).

• Understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases.

• Previous work in Agile/Scrum environments.

Benefits:

• Innovative Challenges: Work on fast-moving, challenging, and unique business problems.

• Career Growth: Benefit from strong learning and development plans for your career growth.

• Global Environment: Thrive in an international work environment with a flat organizational structure.

• Competitive Salary: Receive a competitive salary package.

Originally posted on Himalayas