QA Engineer
Humanforce, Australia
Job Description
At Humanforce, we recognise the significance of Quality Assurance Engineers as essential members of our cross-functional Engineering Teams. We're excited to introduce a new Platform Engineering team, poised for growth and innovation.
As a QA Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in collaborating closely with your fellow team members. Your mission will be to champion and uphold the highest standards of quality, proactively manage risks, strategize and implement test plans, and harness the power of automation to ensure that every new feature we develop aligns seamlessly with our business requirements.
Are you ready to be an integral part of a dynamic team dedicated to excellence? Join us in shaping the future of Humanforce and making a lasting impact in the world of technology.
About us
Humanforce provides the market leading, employee-centred, intelligent and compliant HCM suite for frontline and flexible workforces, offering highly configurable, best-in-one WFM, HR and Payroll - without compromise.
Our vision is to make work easier and life better by focusing on the employee experience (EX), and the efficiency and optimisation of businesses. We are on a mission to deliver an exceptional EX for workforces by offering a compelling employee value proposition and great work effectiveness through connection, development and wellbeing, while delivering intelligent manager automation to drive cost optimisation, increased productivity and growth, and enhance compliance confidence for businesses as they adapt to evolving challenges and objectives.
Humanforce has a strong 2300+ customer base and over 600,000 employees using the platform around the world.
Our approach to flexible work
We’re passionate about people making their own decisions about where and when they work.
Our aim is to facilitate flexible working where possible to support our people to be effective, empowered and productive to achieve both their career and personal goals. Because we recognise working flexibility means different things to different people, we also know flexible working exists in many forms.
Like flexibility to drop off kids? Or maybe early mornings just aren’t your thing! We’re all about that.
We also recognise that everyone is a little different and sometimes you’ll need flexible arrangements that suit your situation. We’ll happily discuss your needs and if we can make it work we will!
What you’ll do
- Work in a Cross-Functional Team: Work along side product management and software engineers to ensure the successful delivery of stable enterprise software products.
- Develop Testing Strategies: Craft and execute test cases and plans that are precision-engineered to meet our unyielding quality standards and Acceptance Criteria.
- Document Quality Metrics: Prepare and maintain software defect and regression tracking in JIRA and communicate sprint release status to stakeholders.
- Test Automation: Play an integral role in test automation efforts, including script creation, maintenance, and code reviews. Using testing tools like Unittest, PyTest, and Jenkins.
- Regression Testing: Monitor and address any failures in the regression test suite promptly. Verify that delivered features meet the acceptance criteria defined by the squad.
- Release Testing: Team up with fellow QA engineers, lending a helping hand, during the intense verification of release cuts and assist in deployment processes.
- Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement in QA processes, tools, and frameworks and actively contribute to their implementation.
- Agile Practices: Actively participate in scrum ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other relevant meetings as the champion of acceptance criteria.
What you’ll need
- QA and Automation Expertise: We're seeking individuals with extensive experience in quality assurance and test automation, ideally holding ISTQB Foundation or equivalent certifications.
- Test Automation Skills: Strong expertise in writing and maintaining automated tests using Python (e.g., PyTest, Robot Framework, Unittest).
- Requirement Handling: Ability to effectively work with written requirements, extract requirements from engineers and product teams, and explore software for test case generation.
- Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile Testing methodologies is important, as we operate in a fast-paced, Agile environment.
- Test Case Management: Familiarity with test management methods and software
What’s on offer
- A flexible working environment work from the office, work from home, work from the local café you’ll be able to manage your personal and professional commitments ea