Senior QA And Test Engineer

Dogs, cats, budgies and everything in between - pets deserve the world. They make us want to be better humans. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to build the most engaged and passionate community of pets and pet parents across the world. And we’re looking for talented team mates who can help us do it.

Founded in Sydney, our team of 500+ pet obsessives span Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. We’ve scaled to become one of Australias top five eComm companies and the no.1 online pet store. But we’re just getting started. Like a whippet who’s spotted their mate across the dog park, our growth is only going to accelerate, as we continue to disrupt the way that pet parents shop.

Excitingly, the pet industry is booming (as in $15 billion kind of booming) and online pet retail is set to grow exponentially in the next five years. So this is a unique career opportunity to be part of our epic growth story.

The Opportunity

We are looking for our newest Senior Quality Assurance & Test Engineer to join our Engineering team within the Supply Chain and Operations pace. Your focus will be on maintaining a high bar of engineering quality, improving our testing infrastructure and automation processes, and ultimately driving continuous improvement of the reliability of our key e-commerce operations. This will involve working with our integration platforms (middleware/iPaaS) and third-party software as well as a mix of automated and manual testing strategies. As a senior member of our QA team, your opinion and ideas are valued and you will have the opportunity to grow with us as a company and make impactful decisions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Review technical specifications and create test strategies
• Propose improvements in test systems and/ processes to improve quality or speed of testing
• Conduct user acceptance and exploratory testing
• Develop automated functional and performance testsIdentify test gaps and improve test plans
• Perform manual testing of new features and bug fixesIdentify and root cause issues in distributed systems, eg microservice, event driven
• Own the end-to-end testing of various integrated proprietary and third-party services
• Propose code design changes to increase testability
• Issue triaging and stakeholder engagement
• Guide teams on testing best practices, coordinating test coverage across unit, integration, and contract testing
• Conduct functional, regression, performance, ETL and end-to-end testing of new application releases and change requests
• Guide engineering team in terms of test execution and review/audit the work done to ensure completeness and quality
• Understand and negotiate with relevant stakeholders on identifying the severity and follow up until issues found are closed
• Prepare and maintain all QA documentation such as Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Metrics, Issues List and relevant records
• Identify potential problems that end user might encounter and make suggestion on improvements required
• Reconciling data between key systems to ensure data consistency
  
  

The ideal toolbox

• 3-5+ years of experience in a senior software quality assurance capacity with the ability to understand, develop and execute test strategies and plans
• Ability to self-motivate and lead the test strategy and execution
• Proficiency in Typescript a must
• Proven track record in developing automated solutions from scratch
• Expert in API (RESTful) testing frameworks and tools
• Passion for improving quality of everything, including deployment, security, stability and performance or any other aspect of engineering
• Experience in defining performance test requirements and carrying out load and stress tests
• Experience working in cross functional teams, providing support throughout the software development life cycle
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a cross-functional team of software developers, product managers, and designers
• Ability to identify and demonstrate your experience in optimising and quality assurance processes
• Strong understanding of test execution in CICD, preferably YAML-based pipelines
• Familiarity with iPaaS or Middleware is desirable
  
  

Juicy perks

• Heaps of development opportunities - stretch projects, secondments and unlimited learning courses via Go1
• 100% Remote role
• Top-tier benefits and HMO
• Product sample giveaways
• Pawrental leave and wellbeing leave
• Team charity volunteer days
• Classpass subsidy
  
  

Why Join?

We Reckon Our Mission To Help The World Pet Better Is An Important One, But Also An Incredibly Fun And Rewarding One. Becoming a Pet Circler Means You’re Committed To Help Shape An Entire Industry - It’s Pretty Exciting Stuff. Here’s What We Stand For

• Were better together
• We operate with humble hearts and hungry minds
• Pets matter so pets and pet parents always have a seat at our table
• Were instinctively curious. Always.
  
  

Belong at Pet Circle

Our unique perspectives and expertise is our superpower - we value diversity in all forms. So, no matter your background, please apply if this role makes you excited to bring your full self to work each day.

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