# QA Lead

**Company**: Prudential
**Location**: Kuala Lumpur
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://prudential.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/prudential/job/Kuala-Lumpur-Group-Head-Office/PSA---QA-Lead_26070288?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4b9dc60b-462

## Description

Prudential's purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future.

The QA Lead is responsible for driving an organisation-wide transformation toward built-in quality, automation-first development, and engineering excellence.

**Job Responsibilities**

**Quality Engineering Strategy**

- Define and implement the enterprise-wide Quality Engineering strategy aligned with “Shift-Left” and “Automation-First” principles.

- Establish the “Golden Standard” for test automation, quality gates, and SDLC best practices across all squads.

- Drive the transformation from manual QA to automation-led quality engineering (<10% QA headcount of total engineering).

**Technical Leadership**

- Build and maintain high-quality automation frameworks, test infrastructure, and reusable tooling used by all product squads.

- Coach and uplift engineering squads to achieve self-testing capability, reducing dependency on centralized testers.

- Introduce metrics (e.g., defect leakage, cycle time impacted by QA, automation coverage) to ensure continuous improvement.

**Operational Leadership**

- Manage a pool of QA engineers who will be allocated to squads based on roadmap and complexity.

- Establish Quality Chapter governance,facilitate best practice sharing, standards alignment, and skill uplift.

- Partner with Product Engineering, Digital Engineering, Platform Engineering, and SRE teams to ensure quality is embedded end-to-end.

**People & Vendor Management**

- Build talent pathways for automation engineers, including upskilling programs for manual QA transitioning to automation.

- Manage vendor partners for specialist testing (e.g., accessibility, performance, security) where needed.

- Implement workforce planning based on demand across squads.

**Qualifications & Experience**

- 10+ years in software quality engineering with at least 5 years in a leadership role.

- Deep experience in test automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium), API testing and CI/CD integration.

- Strong understanding of modern cloud-native engineering practices (microservices, DevOps, IaC).

- Proven experience elevating engineering maturity or leading quality transformation in a squad/tribe model.

## Skills

### Required
- test automation frameworks
- API testing
- CI/CD integration
- cloud-native engineering practices
- microservices
- DevOps
- IaC

---

Source: [Apply at prudential.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://prudential.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/prudential/job/Kuala-Lumpur-Group-Head-Office/PSA---QA-Lead_26070288?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)