Quality Engineer

Summary

Join GROW Inc., an Australian FinTech company, as an engineer and contribute to the development and improvement of our wealth management platform. You will use a data-driven approach to automate processes, build self-service testing platforms, and augment engineering teams. Responsibilities include writing clean code, performing code reviews, implementing CI/CD practices, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate possesses 4+ years of experience testing complex applications, fluency in Typescript, and strong experience in UI and API test automation. GROW Inc. offers a flexible, remote working environment, health insurance, additional leave days, a learning and development budget, and government contributions on top of salary.

Requirements

• A healthy curiosity, autonomy and a strong sense of accountability
• Strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer
• Demonstrated technical initiative and a penchant for clean code
• 4+ years of experience of testing complex applications
• Fluency in a modern programming language. We use Typescript
• Strong experience in test automation of UI using frameworks like Playwright (or similar)
• Strong experience in test automation of API and Event driven services
• Strong experience with modern CI/CD processes and related tools like BuildKite
• Good knowledge of: Cloud architecture principles. Microservices and resiliency patterns
• Experience with performance testing tools like k6, Artillery or Gatling
• Experience working with AWS
• Experience working with databases (SQL or NoSQL)
• Experience working with containerisation tools such as Docker
• Experience working with observability tools like Elastic or Sentry
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform

Responsibilities

• Use a data driven approach to: Decide what needs to be manual vs automated. Improve our QA process and practices. Build and own self-service testing platforms and tools to empower teams to test their code effectively and efficiently. E.g. frameworks for functional, performance, and resilience testing. Augment engineering teams and help them uplift their quality practices using the frameworks you build
• Write clean code, perform code reviews and produce documentation
• Advocate for and implement CI/CD practices that integrate quality checks into every stage of the software delivery pipeline
• Drive a shift-left approach by embedding quality practices early in the development lifecycle, enabling faster feedback and reducing defects downstream
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify test scenarios and acceptance criteria that align with the quality strategy
• Drive operational excellence by contributing to run books, incident response protocols, and reliability improvement initiatives
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve our software engineering practices
• Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge across product, design and engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with performance testing of web applications
• Experience with Chaos Engineering

Benefits

• ME Days - Take an additional 3 days of leave off per year for wellness!
• Birthday Leave - Take an extra day off per year on your birthday!
• Learning & Development Budget - up to $200 AUD per year to use on your own development!
• Remote Work Arrangement - we have a flexible, remote working environment!
• Health Insurance - For you and 2 dependents!
• Government Contributions paid on top of salary