Senior Quality Assistance Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's team and redefine the world's design experience. Work from our Sydney flagship campus or various locations across Australia. As a QA Engineer, you'll be embedded in a product/platform group, collaborating with multiple teams to ensure exceptional user experiences. Your responsibilities include driving quality improvements, creating test strategies, and serving as a subject matter expert. The role requires experience with product and platform teams, rich/complex UIs, and a passion for testing. Canva offers equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• Have experience working with both product and platform teams and defining the QA process for your team. This may involve looking at the current development process for each team, identifying opportunities for injecting quality, and advocating for process changes to improve product quality
• Have experience working with teams that design, build and deploy changes across an organization, influencing large teams, defining infra needs and getting buy-in
• Have experience working with engineers and have a solid understanding of rich/complex UIs
• Have a good understanding of what needs to be included in unit, integration, and end-to-end tests and can coach engineers on what needs to be automated
• Be meticulous in your work and passionate about testing. You consider every possible scenario during your exploratory testing and can spot bugs that others might not notice
• Be a problem solver who is passionate about solving different types of bugs. You are comfortable with using various tools to find out the root causes of issues and have worked with Jira (or other bug reporting tool) to communicate bugs effectively with engineers, PMs, and designers

Responsibilities

• Be the main driver for improving quality across teams and working with key stakeholders to drive process, tooling, and testing changes
• Be responsible for creating the test strategy for the team's projects, with a focus on shift-left QA activities instead of just test execution
• Be the subject matter expert for the team's testing and product knowledge, driving knowledge sharing and documentation for your team and other teams' software engineers and QA
• Model initiative and ownership in achieving goals, and improving processes and solutions for other QA engineers
• Work closely with other Senior QA engineers to define expectations and upskill other QA engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Can coach other engineers on quality assistance and testing
• Have automated trivial tasks using a scripting language like Bash or Python
• Have experience testing Mobile apps for iOS and Android
• Have experience testing Desktop apps for Windows and Mac
• Have experience with Accessibility testing
• Have experience with Offline support testing
• Have experience with marketing tools like Braze to test push notifications and in-app messages in mobile apps
• Have experience with observability tools like Sentry.io to track down issues
• Can query databases and reporting systems using SQL or similar to get data to support your bug reports

Benefits

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally