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Senior QA Lead

LittleLives
1 day ago
Full-time
On-site
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Senior QA Engineer

We are a fast-growing SaaS company in the EduTech space, operating mainly in Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia, with almost 2000 schools as customers. Our mission is to revolutionize early childhood education through technology and provide innovative, scalable solutions to our customers. With a team of 60 talented individuals, we are committed to transforming the way education is delivered in the Southeast Asian region and beyond.

Our DNA: What We Need From You

To thrive in this developing environment, you must live by our code:

  1. High Agency & Accountability: Don't Blame, Solve. Since we are still figuring things out, things will break. You spend zero energy pointing fingers and 100% on finding the cure. You Own it all as the Directly Responsible Individual.

  2. Simplicity with Depth: Design for ease, think with depth. You apply band-aids for immediate support, but you never lose sight of resolving the root cause for long-term stability.

  3. Sense of Urgency: Feel the heat. When a customer struggles, you own that pressure until the pain is gone.

  4. One LittleLives: Cover your team. Be a supporter, not an observer. Flag the blockers, then pass the ball.

About the Position

Title: Senior QA Lead (Stabilization Mission)
Location: Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City
Department: Engineering
Reports to: Engineering Lead

The mission 

  • Eliminate recurring production incidents

  • Rebuild regression foundations

  • Design system-level quality controls

  • Strengthen transactional and data integrity

  • Turn QA from reactive to preventive

If you’ve stabilized a messy ERP, finance system, or workflow-heavy SaaS before — this will feel familiar.

The Reality Check: We are looking for a battle-tested Senior QA Lead to lead a system stabilization mission.

  • Our platform powers 10=600+ schools across multiple countries. It handles student lifecycle, operations, billing, payments, reporting, and complex data flows.

  • We are past the early-stage chaos. Now we need to rebuild quality foundations properly.

  • This is not a maintenance role. This is a stabilization leadership role.

What You Will Be Doing

Stop Production Incidents at the Root

  • Identify systemic defect patterns

  • Design invariant checks (data consistency, transaction integrity)

  • Build reconciliation validation

  • Prevent recurrence, not just detect bugs

Own End-to-End Platform Quality

  • Student enrollment & lifecycle

  • Class & attendance management

  • Billing & payments

  • Reporting & analytics

  • Integrations & webhooks

  • Data migration & legacy imports

  • This role sees the whole system — not just UI.

Hands-On Technical Validation

  • Write SQL to validate data integrity

  • Test transactional atomicity

  • Verify idempotency of background jobs

  • Test edge cases that break real operations

  • Participate in root cause analysis during incidents

Elevate the QA Team

  • Mentor and upgrade team capability

  • Introduce structured test matrices

  • Move QA from manual execution to system thinking

  • Build quality metrics leadership can rely on

What We Are Looking For

  • Having 5+ years QA experience

  • Experience stabilizing a finance-heavy or workflow-heavy system

  • Having strong understanding about below areas:

    • Data consistency

    • Transactional systems

    • Complex state transitions

  • Confidence reading logs, querying DBs, and challenging assumptions

  • Experience designing regression automation, not just executing tests

Interview Process

Round 1: Role Challenge 

Round 2: Team Interview with Engineering Lead and CPO


































Role challenge - 4 hours 

Question 1: What kind of reports/ validation system you will recommend to check financial data accuracy of the system. 

Scenario 2:  Payment gateway sends webhook twice due to timeout.

System behavior:

  • First webhook: marks invoice paid

  • Second webhook: creates another payment record

  • Balance becomes negative

Questions:

  1. What is the architectural issue?

  2. How would you test idempotency?

  3. What invariant checks should exist?

  4. What automated detection would you implement?

Question 3: The system has had recurring finance incidents for 4 months.You are asked to design a 90-day stabilization plan.

Questions:

  1. What would you stop immediately?

  2. What automated controls would you build first?

  3. What metrics would you track weekly?

  4. How would you define release readiness?