Property Exchange Australia Limited Hiring for Software Quality Assurance Engineer – International Job at Melbourne, Australia Full Time

Hey there, we’re PEXA!
We know you’ll Google us before applying, so let’s keep this brief. PEXA pioneered an electronic lodgement solution that simplifies property transactions – we’re a national online property settlements platform. Since starting life in 2010, we now employ a team of 350 people working across 5 states. Today, we help 20,000 families settle their property safely each week.

Our passion and customer focus has resulted in awards or recognition of our products, services, culture, commitment to innovation and member experience in recent years. We’re still expanding at a rapid rate and we’re constantly striving to deliver superior property experiences to all Australians.

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Why become a PEXArian?*
Great question! Being a PEXArian is so much more than just a job. We’re a passionate, motivated and unashamedly enthusiastic bunch at PEXA – we love what we do and we’re proud to admit it! Creating brilliant experiences for our members and their clients wouldn’t be possible without ensuring we deliver an exceptional employee experience.

Here’s a snapshot of what your life at PEXA could look like:

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Your growth: *
We encourage you to hit your personal and professional learning and development goals with our tailored programs and tools.

Your wellness:
We care about your holistic wellbeing – take advantage of our ergonomic environment, a fully stocked kitchen, four wellness days, a $250 wellness subsidy as well as lunch and learn sessions to support your financial wellbeing.

Your work/life blend:
We know that work is just one aspect of your life – we want to help you create your ideal work/life blend, rather than squeezing in life around work.

Your family:
With a range of benefits aimed at supporting your family including access to a subsidised school holiday program, when we say, ‘welcome to the family’, we really mean it!

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A day in the life: *

This exciting role is part of a completely new team within the organisation. You will be part of a global team that is challenging the status quo of property settlement experience in many countries.

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will work closely with your squad and partner teams to ensure we deliver high quality software products. You will play a key role in establishing the overall quality practice and processes of a greenfield global platform.

At PEXA, we are extremely proud of our work culture and the highly motivated and skilled team we have built. In joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work on a range of initiatives and deliver the “wow” moments as the company continues to grow and expand.

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for developing and maintaining testing strategies and capabilities including manual and automation testing.
• Assist with the formulation and implementation of test first strategies within development squads.
• Work closely with software engineers (developers) to prioritize testing execution and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and other stakeholders to make sure the required business scenarios are covered in the acceptance test criteria and corresponding scripts.
• Promote QA productivity through automation tools and SQA best practices.
• Proactively raise and manage issues and risks in a timely manner.

Essential Competencies

• Changing and Improving – Able to think innovatively around problems to improve not just the code, but also the process. Able to use knowledge of testing tools and techniques to deliver continuous improvement.
• Collaborating and Partnering – Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to co-develop a product.
• Deliver at pace – Able to obtain an assessment of quality as early as possible. Ensures the right processes are in place to deliver an efficient service at a sustainable pace. Able to automate and run tests in a continuous integration environment as much as possible.
• Delivering value for money – Able to ensure an effective and efficient service is built, meets user needs and optimises test practices. Raises risks with stakeholders in a timely manner and mitigates those risks early to reduce possible cost.
• Leading and communicating – Able to engage, collaborate and communicate the importance of quality with stakeholders across several departments. Able to provide feedback in a positive and empathetic manner.
• Managing a quality service – Able to conduct effective risk analysis by understanding the possible ramifications of failure to the quality, speed or value for money of a service. Able to ensure that test activities are run in a cost-effective manner and are completed at a sustainable pace.
• Seeing the big picture – Able to think broadly and apply strategic thinking. Able to understand the importance of testing to the business. Can pay attention to detail but is also able to see the big picture.
• Passion – Passion for delivering quality and achieving team objectives.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in software development quality assurance, preferably in enterprise software applications
• Good understanding of software development life-cycle and SQA methodologies, techniques and approaches
• Experience with types of testing including unit, integration, API, regression, performance and security testing
• Experience in testing REST APIs using automated and exploratory techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Owned test plan, strategy and execution for customer facing applications
• Developed automated tests in any programming language
• Experience with automated testing frameworks/tools such as Cypress, Selenium or Puppeteer
• Experience with Behavioural Based Development tools such as Cucumber
• Experience in testing responsive websites in cross-platform testing tools
• Knowledge of cloud technology and CI/CD tooling such as AWS, Docker, Jenkins, etc
• Experience in coaching developers on quality assurance and testing
• Highly Skilled in Test Automation – Effective in utilising a range of contemporary technologies including cloud platforms, open source and ‘SaaS’ services to better enable and enhance the delivery of automated quality services. Able to stay abreast of industry developments to make cost-effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies. Able to utilise a breadth of knowledge from across the wider technology and digital professions, strengthening the effective delivery of services. Relevant professional awareness may include architecture, continuous integration and deployment, coding or scripting languages.
• Experienced in Functional Testing – Able to analyse changes to, or the development of, products and services and plan design. Able to run and manage appropriate tests to ensure that requirements have been fully met. Understands and can identify the most effective techniques, data sets and tools to use. Able to communicate defects or trends clearly to software developers, outlining how defects are identified and the possible causes. Able to design, or provide assurance for, appropriate risk-based end-to-end system integration test models.
• Experienced in Non-Functional Testing – Able to analyse changes to, or the development of, products and services and plan design in a non-functional environment. Able to run and manage appropriate non-functional tests to ensure that requirements have been fully met.
• Excellent test analysis skills – Able to identify simple patterns and trends. Investigates problems and opportunities in existing processes and contributes to recommending solutions to these. Works with stakeholders to identify objectives and potential benefits available.

Sounds like you?
We at PEXA are ready so if this role sounds like you apply today.

Job Type: Full-time