Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.Education Horizons is Australias largest EdTech company, providing software for over 2,200 schools and 3 million school users in more than 60 countries across Australia, UK, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and NZ. With offices in Melbourne (Hawthorn), Perth, Sydney and Yeovil.We are setting out on a journey to change the lives of children, their families and teachers by creating a first of its kind, end-to-end school experience and management platform.Education Horizons is an amazing place to work. Its a great size big enough to have serious resources to invest, but small enough to not get lost in the crowd. We are proud to have an inclusive and collaborative work environment.Role Overview:We are looking for a QA Engineer who will champion quality assurance throughout Education Horizons. Our QA Engineers work in an agile team that includes Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Tech Leads, Engineers, and fellow QA Engineers. Working alongside the team using transparent processes to inspect, adapt and continuously learn and improve, our QA Engineers work in a team that actively encourages openness and respect of one another.Key Responsibilities:Ensure product quality by effectively triaging and prioritising bugs within your squad.Represent QA during our daily Scrum stand-ups, planning sessions, product review and retrospective meetings. Actively engage in discussions around the acceptance criteria and test scenarios for product features.Ensure that the tickets being worked on during the sprints are adhering to the quality guidelines defined by QA Engineering.Ensure that high quality standards are achieved at all times for all our software releases and a high level of automated coverage.Be accountable for recording software defects and providing technical descriptions and evidence, whilst also providing feedback and regular updates to the team to ensure that our products are developed to the highest standard.Identify and define opportunities for improvement, measurements for those improvements and the implementation and roll out process to ensure that overall quality standards and customer expectations are met or exceeded.Ensure solutions are robust and fully tested before theyre shipped.Build and maintain QA reporting capabilities.Provide support and guidance to other team members around QA best practices.Contribute and share knowledge with their own team and the wider Engineering group via knowledge sharing meetings, working within the Education Horizons Information Security Management System and policies.Live and lead the Values of Education Horizons.Experience:More than 2 years experience working as a QA Engineer.Experience with writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.Experience in writing scenarios in BDD in Gherkin syntax.Experience in test automation tools such as Cypress and Cucumber.Experience of API testing with Swagger and Web Services Postman testing.Experience in using Xray Test Management Tool/ JIRA.Good working knowledge of CI/CD best practices for automating testing.Demonstrate empathy, common sense, and pragmatism. Be able to relate and influence both business and technology people but above all be innovative.Experience in contributing to Three Amigos sessions and adding value to enhance the quality of the requirements and understand the test requirements.Other Skills and Qualifications:Skilled in reviewing user requirements and providing feedback to Product Owners.GitLab/Github.Github Actions and Jenkins.ISTQB certified tester foundation/advanced.We value output and impact which means recruiting the right person for the role. We will consider all qualified applicants regardless of their background, experience, identity or need for flexibility. If you are interested in this role but it might need some flexibility just let us know.Education Horizons retains the right to remove this advertisement prior to any stated closing date.We will not be accepting unsolicited phone calls or applications from employment agencies at this time.Seniority levelAssociateEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionInformation Technology and Quality AssuranceIndustries: Education Administration Programs #J-18808-Ljbffr
Job Title
Quality Assurance Engineer