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SalaryHi, we're PEXA
Every time a house is bought, sold or refinanced in Australia your lawyer, conveyancer and lender will most likely use a digital platform to settle your property, this is where we come in. PEXA's world-first digital settlement platform has revolutionised the way we exchange property in Australia helping over 20,000 people a week safely settle their homes. And this is just the beginning. Our data and insights are helping organisations unlock the intel they need to drive change and possibilities.
Since starting our journey in 2010, we now employ a team of over 1,000 people working across multiple continents. We're still growing, innovating and looking ahead, but behind our greatest achievements, there is a team of curious creators and big thinkers. That's why, we're looking for ambitious people like yourself to join the team.
About The Role
As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will work closely with your squad and partner teams to ensure we deliver high-quality software products. You will play a key role in establishing the overall quality of practice and processes.
As a Senior QA, you will have leadership within your squad to drive your team's efforts and tasks, acting as an SME and providing inputs to your team members, especially BA, PO and Dev.
Key Accountabilities
- Responsible for developing and maintaining testing strategies and capabilities including manual and automation testing
- Assist with the formulation and implementation of test-first strategies within development squads
- Work closely with software engineers (developers) to prioritize testing execution and ensure comprehensive test coverage
- Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and other stakeholders to make sure the required business scenarios are covered in the acceptance test criteria and corresponding scripts.
- Promote QA productivity and efficiency through automation tools and SQA best practices
- Proactively raise and manage issues and risks promptly.
- Support Pre and Post release activities
- Highly Skilled in Test Automation: Effective in utilising a range of contemporary technologies including cloud platforms, open source and 'SaaS' services to better enable and enhance the delivery of automated quality services. Able to stay abreast of industry developments to make cost-effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies. Able to utilise a breadth of knowledge from across the wider technology and digital professions, strengthening the effective delivery of services. Relevant professional awareness may include architecture, continuous integration and deployment, coding, or scripting languages.
- Experienced in Functional Testing: Able to analyse changes to, or the development of, products and services and plan design. Able to run and manage appropriate tests to ensure that requirements have been fully met. Understands and can identify the most effective techniques, data sets and tools to use. Able to communicate defects or trends clearly to software developers, outlining how defects are identified and the possible causes. Able to design, or provide assurance for, appropriate risk-based end-to-end system integration test models.
- Experienced in Non-Functional Testing: Able to analyse changes to, or the development of, products and services and plan design in a non-functional environment. Able to run and manage appropriate non-functional tests to ensure that requirements have been fully met.
- Excellent test analysis skills: Able to identify simple patterns and trends. Investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes and contribute to recommending solutions to these. Works with stakeholders to identify objectives and potential benefits available.
- Defect tracking and accountability in the process: Able to raise, track and own defect artefacts and the due process to raise and provide resolution to defects raised within the domain area.
- Proven experience in software development Quality Assurance, preferably in enterprise software applications
- Good understanding of software development life cycle and SQA methodologies, techniques, and approaches
- Experience and understanding of shift left testing approach and test pyramid with distinct types of testing including unit, integration, end-to-end, API, regression, performance, and security testing
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Previous experience as a test lead, and test SME.
- Hands-on experience in building an API or UI automation framework from scratch.
- Knowledge and experience in different open-source tools and technologies. E.g., Cypress, playwright, k6, Selenium, Cucumber, java, kotlin, mvn, gradle, github, git, postman, Insomnia etc
- Changing and Improving: Able to think innovatively around problems to improve not just the code, but also the process. Able to use knowledge of testing tools and techniques to deliver continuous improvement.
- Collaborating and Partnering. Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to co-develop a product.
- Deliver at pace: Able to obtain an assessment of quality as early as possible. Ensures the right processes are in place to deliver an efficient service at a sustainable pace. Able to automate and run tests in a continuous integration environment as much as possible.
- Leading and communicating: Able to engage, collaborate and communicate the importance of quality with stakeholders across several departments. Able to provide feedback in a positive and empathetic manner.
- Acting as SME for multiple areas of discipline and able to provide valuable inputs into the multiple areas of knowledge and agile ceremonies.
- Owning a QA initiative and driving it from a team perspective and being in charge of stakeholders' buy-in, planning, execution, analysis, and sign-off
- Managing a quality service. Able to conduct effective risk analysis by understanding the possible ramifications of failure to the quality, speed, or value for money of a service. Able to ensure that test activities are run cost-effectively and are completed at a sustainable pace.
- Seeing the big picture. Able to think broadly and apply strategic thinking. Able to understand the importance of testing to the business. Can pay attention to detail but is also able to see the big picture.
- Passion. Passion for delivering quality and achieving team objectives.
A career at PEXA starts with you!
If you think you have the required skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we'd love to hear from you - even if you don't tick all the boxes. At PEXA we support your growth and help you discover your full potential.
Why join us
- Flexibility is in our DNA, with no set office days - work from any location in Australia
- Your holistic wellbeing is important to us. Enjoy meditation, yoga, boxing classes and a wellness day each month to recharge!
- We know that work is just one aspect of your life. That's why we offer up to 12 weeks 'workcation' for you to extend personal travel time and work remotely
- Take the opportunity to purchase up to four weeks additional annual leave per year
- Learn from the best and upskill with PEXA Academy certifications and grow your career
At PEXA we want you to embrace your best self each day, creating an environment where everyone can contribute and participate, so that every person can reach their full potential. We want our people to feel equally valued, supported and celebrated. With market-leading benefits that make a difference, we're committed to supporting individuals, families and carers. Your culture, gender, sexual orientation, language and other attributes make you unique! We couldn't be prouder to have a team that reflects the richness of our wider community.
We're a proud 'Circle Back Initiative' Employer and commit to responding to every applicant.
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