Lead Software Engineer in Test

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

MALTA is the team at Grab improve the software foundations and infrastructure components that all Grab mobile apps are built upon.The team objective is to maximize the productivity of every Grab mobile engineer in delivering the most stable, scalable, and secure product, with the best quality our customers deserve and at great velocity. MALTA operates against a set of key principles: pursue and adoption of scalable and intentional mobile architectures, consolidation of reusable software assets, pervasive and automation, pushing for all Grab mobile apps towards continuous delivery.

Get to know the Role:

As a Lead Software Engineer in Test in the Mobile Test Automation Platform team, you will define and scale Grab's end-to-end mobile testing strategy by building developer tooling, platform capabilities, and operating processes used across multiple mobile teams.

You will improve how teams run and act on automated test signals throughout CI/CD and release workflows.

You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager II, Mobile.

This role is onsite based in Singapore office

The Day-to-Day Activities:

• Define and execute Grab's long-term vision and roadmap for scalable, reliable mobile E2E testing.
• Partner with engineering teams to drive adoption of common tools, standards, and quality practices.
• Establish inclusive quality governance and release-readiness guardrails across teams.
• Guide technical strategy for automation platforms, execution efficiency, recovery, reporting, and diagnostics.
• Standardize test metadata and quality signals to enable data-driven release decisions.
• Improve developer experience across Android and iOS testing workflows.
• Mentor engineers and build shared capabilities through coaching, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration.

Qualifications

Essential Skills You Will Need

• At least 5 years of experience in automated mobile testing
• Define and deliver a clear vision, strategy, and roadmap for mobile test automation at scale.
• Drive adoption of engineering tools, processes, standards, governance, and quality gates across teams.
• Apply strong knowledge of Android and iOS E2E testing and CI/CD integration.
• Improve test reliability and execution speed through sharding, retries, failure analysis, and flaky-test management.
• Build maintainable automation platforms, services, and integration tooling.
• Mentor engineers through coaching, feedback, technical guidance, and inclusive collaboration.
• Partner effectively with Engineering, QA, Release, and Product stakeholders to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Communicate strategy and execution clearly through documentation and stakeholder alignment.

Go to have

• Large-scale mobile CI, device labs/farms, and release pipeline operations.
• Test reporting, analytics, and quality data platforms.
• Android/iOS verification tooling and automated test configuration.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.