QA Engineer (Team Humanforce Platform)
Humanforce, Australia

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in ensuring the exceptional quality of our application?

The Quality Assurance team is on the lookout for an experienced testing engineer. This role would work closely with our Platform Teams to evangelise quality, flag potential risks, highlight edge cases and guard against regressions and contribute to development roadmaps as we continue to scale, uplift and tackle tech debt within the platform. As well as this, the role will form part of a tight-knit QA team that is delivering automated test coverage across the platform.

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.

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!

• 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.

• 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

• 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 easily
• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing tech company
  
• A focus on development with access to LinkedIn Learning
  
• Employee talent referral scheme (know great people, be rewarded)
  
• Paid parental leave and volunteering days
  
• A fun and friendly cultu

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