Lead QA
full-time•Kuala Lumpur
About this role
<p><span><strong>The Opportunity</strong></span></p><p><span>Own the quality assurance standard across multiple workstreams. You’ll design pragmatic test strategies, accelerate high‑confidence releases, and champion quality engineering at scale. You will work closely with the Lead Developers and engineering teams to ensure solutions are robust, secure, and aligned to organisational goals. The successful candidate is expected to operate as the testing authority within the team - establishing best practices, maturing automation strategies, and ensuring high‑quality outcomes across all deliverables.</span></p><p></p><p><span><strong>Core Responsibilities</strong></span></p><ul><li><p><span><strong>Develop Test Strategies</strong>: Contribute to the Group test strategy outlining the approach, objectives, scope, techniques and resources needed.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Test Plans: </strong>Write test plans and create test cases for various products within the Group. Conduct QA, Integration and Performance tests in line with delivery expectations.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Lead QA Delivery:</strong> Take charge of end-to-end test delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring all testing activities are planned, executed, and completed on schedule. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to guarantee that testing aligns with project requirements and delivers high-quality outcomes.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Define the testing standards across multiple projects.</strong> Establish test approaches that support rapid, incremental delivery, including functional, non‑functional, exploratory, regression, performance, and security testing.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Automation Engineering:</strong> Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI, API, and integration testing. Evaluate feasibility of automation early in the design phase.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Reporting</strong>: Provide comprehensive output detailing performance of the team as well as defect levels and application quality.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>QA Execution:</strong> Manage test execution across multiple projects, ensuring the testing process follows the test plan.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Quality Engineering:</strong> Advocate for quality across the entire software development lifecycle. Drive shift‑left practices, ensuring defects are prevented early through design reviews, code quality, and testability improvements.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><span><strong>Essential Skills & Tech Stack</strong></span></p><ul><li><p><span>5+ years QA experience.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Experience working as a QA lead in multi‑discipline teams.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Expertise in Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman/Newman, Azure DevOps.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Good understanding of .NET, React, SQL, Azure.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Experience in integrating automated tests into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.</span></p></li></ul>
What you'll do
- The Lead QA will develop test strategies and take charge of end-to-end test delivery across multiple workstreams. They will also define testing standards and advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
About K3 Capital Group
K3 Capital Group brings together specialist advisory brands to support business owners, individuals, their professional advisors and investors at every critical stage of the business and investment lifecycle. Our Group combines expertise in business sales and M&A, tax, restructuring, technology, strategic finance, legal advisory and wealth planning to deliver calm, confident guidance when it matters most. Together, we provide an integrated advisory platform that combines specialist expertise with a shared commitment to unlocking, protecting and realising value.
Our services include business sales and brokerage, corporate finance, off-market deal origination, debt advisory, R&D and capital allowances, tax investigations, general tax advisory, restructuring and insolvency, forensic accounting and eDiscovery, ERP and managed IT, strategic forecasting, legal advisory, wealth management and employee benefits. This breadth allows us to unlock, protect and realise value for clients navigating growth, transition, challenge or exit.
Our Group includes: KBS Corporate, KBS Corporate Finance, Knightsbridge Business Sales, Origin IQ, Knight R&D, randd UK, JE Consulting, HMA Tax, inTAX, K3 Tax Advisory, K3 Advantage, K3 Law, KR8 Advisory, Knight Corporate Finance, Pinnacle, Pareto Financial Planning, Luna Investment Management and Quantuma & Quantuma International.
Headquartered in Bolton with international operations, K3 Capital Group has been part of Sun Capital Partners since 2023.
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What does a Lead QA do at K3 Capital Group?
As a Lead QA at K3 Capital Group, you will: the Lead QA will develop test strategies and take charge of end-to-end test delivery across multiple workstreams. They will also define testing standards and advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle..
Is the Lead QA position at K3 Capital Group remote?
The Lead QA position at K3 Capital Group is based in Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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