Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

At Deputy, we empower businesses to build thriving workplaces - ones where staff are engaged, customers are served well, businesses are legally compliant, and companies’ profits thrive. Our reach extends across 100+ countries worldwide, serving more than 330,000 workplaces. 

Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company headquartered in Sydney, San Francisco, and London, backed by top investors and recently surpassed $100m in annual recurring revenue. We've helped millions of workers across industries and aim to empower 80% of the global workforce. If you're passionate about improving the world of work, one shift a time, join us at Deputy and help shape the future of hourly employment!

Here at Deputy, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Due to the Deputy's success and growth around the world and our goal to deliver faster with high quality, we're seeking a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure we keep growing into an extraordinary team delivering more of what our customers love.

You will focus on the efficient and effective development of Deputy's product and services, ensure we release the highest quality software quickly and push the team to be world class. You will be key to driving a quality centric, rapid iteration culture.

You will have a growth mindset and always be on the lookout for better ways to do things. This is an amazing opportunity for you to be at the forefront of creating a world-class delivery and development function.

• Develop and own a long term vision for quality across the organisation
• Identify and implement new testing paradigms (technical and process) to power growth in product and engineering.
• Design and execute on comprehensive test strategies across engineering.
• Architect, build, and scale highly efficient, robust, and reusable test automation frameworks for functional, regression, performance, and stress testing.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, product, and engineering stakeholders to influence architectural decisions that ensure testability and quality.
• Lead in triaging and diagnosing complex issues, assessing impact, and determining solutions that drive fast resolution and minimal disruption.
• Ensure seamless integration of tests into CI/CD pipelines, optimising workflows for speed and reliability.
• Provide strategic insights through reporting on the coverage and effectiveness of testing strategies.
• Mentor and lead engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation in quality assurance.
• Be an advocate for best practices in testing, quality, and engineering processes, driving forward the adoption of the latest tools and methodologies across teams and projects.

• Extensive experience in modern OOP languages is essential — we primarily use PHP, JavaScript, and Golang.
• Advanced knowledge of API testing, including RESTful, OpenAPI/Swagger, and gRPC.
• Deep experience with building, automating, and scaling E2E test frameworks using tools like Playwright, WebdriverIO and Maestro for web and mobile testing.
• Highly proficient with SQL for debugging and resolving complex data issues, driving data-driven testing practices.
• Architect and maintain scalable testing frameworks and tooling, enabling efficient testing across multiple environments and platforms.
• Build comprehensive reporting tools that provide actionable insights into test coverage, performance metrics, and areas for improvement.
• Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to drive continuous delivery and automated release processes, utilising tools like Jenkins and advanced CI/CD pipelines.
• Influence and lead quality-centric methodologies throughout the entire software development lifecycle, with a focus on improving performance and scalability.
• Expertise in working with large-scale cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, applying testing solutions at a global scale.

Employee Perks

- Ownership in the company via Share Options

- Paternity/Maternity Leave Policies

- Flexible Remote-First Work Policy

- Company wide Development & Coaching

- Hackathons

- Awards - "Your Time to Shine & Celebrate Success"

- Social Events & variety of social clubs (Books, LGBT, Games, Sports)

- Mental Health Support

- Munch & Learns

Deputy believes in equal opportunity and that inclusiveness and diversity promotes innovation. Our global team members are from a variety of cultures. And we welcome different perspective and skills. 

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