About the Role 

At SimplifyNext, quality is not a phase – it is a discipline woven into every stage of how we deliver. As a Senior Quality Analyst, you will play a leadership role in shaping how quality is defined, engineered, and scaled across our engagements. You will work at the intersection of modern application development, AI-driven solutions, and enterprise automation, partnering with architects, engineers, and client stakeholders to ensure quality is built into the foundation – not tested at the end. This role goes beyond traditional QA. You will lead quality transformation for our clients, drive automation-first testing strategies, and explore how AI can redefine how quality is assured in complex, real-world systems. 

Responsibilities 

Quality Leadership & Strategy 

• Define and lead end-to-end quality strategies for complex programmes, ensuring alignment with business outcomes, regulatory requirements, and modern architecture patterns. 

• Act as a trusted advisor to clients and senior stakeholders, shaping how quality is approached across teams, platforms, and releases. 

• Establish quality governance frameworks across multi-workstream programmes, including standards, metrics, and reporting structures. 

Shift-Left & Engineering Excellence 

• Champion a shift-left and quality engineering mindset, embedding testing into design, development, and deployment practices. 

• Partner with architects and developers to design for testability, ensuring systems are observable, resilient, and scalable. 

• Advocate and guide teams on practices such as TDD, BDD, contract testing, and CI/CD-driven quality gates. 

Automation & AI-Driven Testing 

• Lead the design and implementation of automation-first testing strategies across UI, API, data, and integration layers. 

• Drive adoption of modern test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium, and ensure they are scalable, maintainable, and integrated into delivery pipelines. 

• Make informed decisions on tooling strategy (e.g. what to use for modern web apps vs legacy or cross-browser needs). 

• Explore and implement AI-assisted testing approaches – including test generation, intelligent test selection, anomaly detection, and self-healing automation. 

• Define approaches for testing AI/ML systems and agentic workflows, including handling non-deterministic behaviour, model drift, and data quality risks. 

End-to-End Quality Assurance 

• Own quality across the full technology stack – from frontend experiences to backend services, integrations, and cloud infrastructure. 

• Lead exploratory testing and risk-based validation, especially in complex, automation-heavy, or AI-driven solutions. 

• Ensure robustness across performance, security, reliability, and user experience dimensions. 

Metrics, Insights & Continuous Improvement 

• Define and track engineering and quality metrics (e.g. lead time, deployment frequency, change fail rate, MTTR). 

• Use data to identify systemic issues, improve delivery predictability, and elevate team performance. 

• Embed continuous feedback loops from production usage into test strategy and product improvements. 

Coaching & Practice Building 

• Mentor and guide junior QAs and engineers, raising the overall quality maturity of teams. 

• Coach client teams to adopt shared ownership of quality, ensuring sustainability beyond project delivery. 

• Contribute to building SimplifyNext’s Quality Engineering practice, including reusable assets, accelerators, and thought leadership. 

What We Are Looking For 

Technical Skills 

• Strong experience in quality engineering within agile, product-centric environments, working closely with developers, BAs, and architects. 

• Proven ability to define and implement automation strategies across complex systems (web, mobile, API, integrations). 

• Hands-on experience with modern test frameworks and CI/CD integration. 

• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed systems. 

• Experience testing AI/ML or automation solutions, with awareness of challenges such as non-determinism, data dependency, and model evaluation. 

• Familiarity with performance, security, and resilience testing approaches. 

• Experience working in large-scale or public sector programmes is a plus. 

Professional & Leadership Skills 

• Demonstrated ability to lead quality across teams and influence without authority. 

• Strong consulting mindset – able to engage clients, shape thinking, and communicate risks in business terms. 

• Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels, switching seamlessly as needed. 

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including senior leadership engagement. 

• Passion for innovation in quality engineering, particularly through automation and AI. 

• Committed to continuous learning and driving change in how quality is delivered. 

What Success Looks Like in This Role 

• Quality is embedded from day one, not introduced late in delivery 

• Automation coverage is meaningful, reliable, and accelerates releases 

• Teams adopt shared ownership of quality 

• Clients see measurable improvements in delivery metrics and stability 

• New approaches (AI-assisted testing, modern frameworks) are successfully piloted and scaled 

About the role

In partnership with SBI Group, we are building a next-generation decentralized exchange (DEX) aimed at bringing the majority of Japanese equities on-chain. Our goal is to create a secure, transparent, and high-performance trading infrastructure capable of supporting institutional volumes while remaining accessible to retail participants. The platform features a fully on-chain order book and is powered by a custom state transition function and consensus layer, purpose-built for low-latency, high-throughput trading.

As the Senior QA Engineer, you will be the quality champion for this system and cover core trading flows, order book behavior, matching logic, and backend services powering execution. As the first senior-level QA on the team, you will own the end-to-end quality strategy with a strong emphasis on automation, ensuring the correctness, reliability, and performance of both API and E2E layers under real-world trading conditions.

This is a hands-on role focused on building robust E2E and API test coverage, not manual testing.

Key responsibilities

• Quality strategy & process: Define and evolve QA standards, release criteria, and quality metrics tailored to a trading platform. Establish best practices for validating execution accuracy, pricing, and API reliability.

• Automation (E2E-first approach):

  Design, build, and maintain a scalable end-to-end automation framework for the web app, covering critical user journeys.

• API testing & validation:

  Develop comprehensive automated tests for backend services and APIs. Ensure consistency between API responses and frontend behavior.

• Trading logic validation:

  Validate correctness of execution paths, price impact, and fee calculations across different trading pairs and liquidity sources.

• Performance & reliability:

  Drive API-level load and stress testing for high-throughput scenarios. Validate system behavior under peak traffic and degraded conditions (timeouts, partial failures, node issues).

• Test data & environment strategy:

  Design reliable test environments and datasets (mocked or real blockchain interactions), ensuring repeatability of E2E and API tests.

• Cross-team collaboration & leadership:

  Work closely with Engineering and Product to define testable acceptance criteria. Take ownership of QA processes, drive automation adoption, and set quality standards across the team.

Qualifications

Required experiences

• 3+ years in QA for web or fintech products, with at least 2+ years focused on test automation and E2E testing.
• Strong experience building and maintaining E2E test frameworks (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, or similar).
• Solid experience in API testing and automation (REST, JSON-RPC, or similar).
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills.
• Experience testing complex transactional or financial systems.
• Good understanding of trading concepts: slippage, liquidity, routing paths, execution flow.
• Experience designing stable, maintainable automated test suites (CI integration, flakiness reduction).

Nice-to-have

• Experience testing DEXs, trading platforms, or financial systems.
• Familiarity with blockchain basics, smart contracts, and on-chain transaction flows.
• Understanding of AMMs, liquidity pools, and routing algorithms.
• Experience with performance/API load testing tools (e.g. k6, Artillery).
• Experience using AI tools to improve test generation and coverage.

Summary: Join an innovative DeFi analytics platform team as a Test Automation Engineer. In this role, you will ensure the reliability and functionality of our platform by creating and maintaining automated test suites for smart contracts and user interfaces. Your work will be crucial in supporting the rigorous testing of comapny's new feature releases.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement automated test suites for smart contracts and UI components.
• Collaborate with developers to integrate testing processes into the development lifecycle.
• Identify, document, and track bugs and performance issues.
• Continuously improve and maintain test automation frameworks and tools.
• Analyze test results and work with the team to resolve issues.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage for all new features and updates.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency with Hardhat, Foundry, or Cypress.
• Strong understanding of DeFi and smart contract testing.
• Experience in automating tests for both backend (contracts) and frontend (UI) systems.
• Solid knowledge of testing methodologies and best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills to work effectively within a team environment.

Who We Are 

Build. Scale. Sustain.  

We are a global technology consultancy with a trademarked, AI-first engineering approach for accelerating the delivery of digital products, and revolutionizing platform modernization. We do the right thing, and we do it right. We're proud to be a World Economic Forum New Champion, and a B Corp-certified company. 

• We are small enough to care locally, big enough to deliver globally: 5 continents, 10 countries, +500 experts from +50 nationalities across the Americas, Europe and APAC
• We are robust and resilient: 100% independent and 0 debt
• We are entrepreneurs and passionate experts: We invest in what we believe genuinely and work as a collective intelligence 
• We are positive, courageous, caring, doers and committed to excellence 

About Gen-e2TM 
 
While the market is still largely AI-augmenting delivery, we have reinvented the SDLC to be AI First. Leveraging our 16 years expertise in digital transformation, our approach is a game-changer in productivity and quality, with a strong collaboration between IA generative and our best Talents: 

• We now generate 95% of the entire product — code, documentation, infrastructure as code, and even design powered by GitHub Copilot. 
• The quality consistently exceeds the output of our best traditional engineering teams.
• A product repository houses all product artefacts, giving AI full project context for higher-quality generation.
• A library of rules and prompts defines coding standards, design principles, and security guidelines, ensuring enterprise-grade quality and scalability. 

With Gen-e2TM, we deliver end-to-end products 2–3× faster than traditional approaches, while raising the bar for engineering excellence. 

YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

As a member of an Agile delivery team, you will be responsible for the design and execution of test automation and quality engineering activities across Web, API, Mobile, Cloud, and Data platforms. You will define and implement test strategies with the team in applying automation, exploratory, performance, and data pipeline testing practices effectively. 

You will: 

• Be responsible for building and maintaining scalable automation frameworks for Web, API, Mobile, Cloud, and Data systems.
• Define and execute test strategies, balancing automation, exploratory, performance, and data testing.
• Implement automation scripts using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, and Katalon.
• Design and execute tests for data platforms, including ETL pipelines, data quality, schema validation, and transformation logic.
• Apply structured test approaches for data engineering workflows (batch vs. streaming, ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption).
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable execution.
• Perform exploratory testing to uncover gaps not easily detected by automation.
• Support performance, scalability, and reliability testing using tools like JMeter, Gatling, or k6.
• Apply AI-powered QA tools and prompt engineering techniques to accelerate test creation and analysis.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and business analysts to ensure requirements are testable and automation-ready.

WHO YOU ARE 

• Strong experience in test automation, framework design, and quality engineering.
• Solid background in functional and automation testing across Web, API, Mobile, Cloud, and Data platforms.
• Strong in hands-on coding in Java, JavaScript, Python, or similar languages for automation.
• Hands-on experience in mobile automation testing with Appium and/or Katalon.
• Exposure to performance and load testing.
• Experience with AI/ML-driven test tools and basic prompt engineering.
• Strong background in exploratory testing and modern test design techniques.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and cloud-native testing (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Excellent collaboration and problem-solving skills. 

BONUS SKILLS 

• Knowledge of data platform & data engineering pipeline testing (ETL validation, streaming, data quality).
• Experience with big data test strategies and analytics validation. 

We will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require sponsorship of a visa. 

More About PALO IT 

We’re eager to adapt to change, learn from our experiences and move to meet our planet’s urgent needs. We are continuously taking action to: 

• Become a climate net-zero company  
• Deliver projects with a positive impact
• Train 100% of our workforce on impact   
• Achieve B Corp certification among all our offices across the globe   
• Continuously measure & improve employee happiness  

Our clients are amongst the world's most successful companies. We innovate with both established Fortune 1000s, SMEs and start-ups who aim to make an impact, become global leaders and address the world's most complex challenges. 

What We Offer 

• Stimulating working environments
• Unique career path
• International mobility  
• Internal R&D projects
• Knowledge sharing
• Personalized training
• Entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship 

For more on our team culture and benefits, check out our careers page.

PALO IT Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Palo IT SG does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.

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Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Palo-IT’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes.

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We are hiring for one of our clients. They are a fast-growing Web3 startup rethinking how digital identity and reputation work online. They’re building privacy-first infrastructure that lets users prove who they are and what they’ve done—without giving up personal data. Backed by strong ecosystem partners and a passionate founding team, the company is shaping a more trusted and user-centric internet.

We are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Lead to own and elevate quality across the product lifecycle. You will define the QA strategy, and partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to ship reliable, secure, and delightful features.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality across the product suite — from defining QA strategy and test plans to hands-on execution, reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Shape the QA roadmap by setting up effective testing processes, tools, and metrics, ensuring smooth release cycles and data-driven quality tracking.
• Collaborate early and often with product and engineering to refine requirements, user flows, and acceptance criteria — advocating for testability and great user experiences.
• Plan and execute testing at every level (manual and automated): API, UI, integration, regression, and smoke — ensuring solid coverage and reliability.
• Drive smart automation — identify high-value test cases for automation and maintain stable, scalable test suites.
• Track and communicate quality metrics such as defect trends, coverage, and release health to keep the team aligned and proactive.
• Champion a shift-left mindset by embedding QA practices early in discovery and development, and helping engineers take ownership of quality.
• Oversee release readiness — from environment setup and data prep to go/no-go decisions and post-release validation.
• Lead defect management — prioritize fixes, uncover root causes, and turn insights into prevention and process improvements.
• Mentor and scale the QA function, building documentation, standards, and best practices that grow with the team.
• Partner with DevOps and Security to strengthen performance, reliability, and security testing — ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 7+ years in QA/Software Quality roles with 2+ years leading QA initiatives or teams in a fast-paced product environment.
• Strong expertise in test strategy, risk-based testing, requirements analysis, and release management.
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Playwright/Cypress/WebdriverIO, pytest/Jest, Postman/Newman, REST/GraphQL tools).
• Proficiency with CI/CD and version control (e.g., GitHub/GitLab Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI); experience integrating automated tests into pipelines.
• Solid understanding of modern web/mobile architectures, APIs, microservices, and cloud environments.
• Experience with non-functional testing: performance (e.g., k6, JMeter), reliability, accessibility, and security testing practices.
• Data-driven mindset with experience defining and reporting quality metrics and OKRs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to translate technical quality issues into business impact and recommendations.

Nice to have

• Understanding of wallets and signing flows (e.g., MetaMask, WalletConnect, EIP-712 typed data), basic key management concepts.
• Exposure to smart contracts and EVM tooling (reading Solidity/ABIs, Foundry/Hardhat test basics, contract events).
• Experience testing dApp UX with wallet connectors, chain switching, and handling pending/confirmed/failed on-chain states.
• Awareness of token standards (ERC-20/721/1155), approvals/permits, and common failure modes (reverts, RPC errors, reorgs).
• Light exposure to wallet-aware E2E automation (e.g., Synpress or Playwright with mocked providers) is a plus.