QA Engineer (Talent Squad)

Who are we? 

Humanforce’s vision is to make work easier and life better for frontline and flexible workforces.    

Humanforce provides the market leading, best-in-one human capital management (HCM) suite for frontline and flexible workforces - without compromise. Our employee centred, intelligent and compliant HCM suite is highly integrated and composable, and consists of Workforce Management (WFM), HR, Payroll, and Wellbeing.     

Humanforce has built strong foundations since its founding in 2002. We help over 2300 customers and almost 1 million employees under management in 30+ countries, across a wide range of industries, including aged, child and health care; education; hospitality; retail; local government and more. Today, we have offices across Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, North America and the Philippines.    

Customers choose Humanforce because we enable them to deliver an exceptional employee experience, build a compelling employee value proposition, and connect the flow of the world’s talent with the growth, productivity and efficiency objectives of frontline and flexible workforces.   

Who you are 

You are a passionate quality advocate, focused on mitigating risk, developing test plans and automating testing to ensure new features meet business requirements. You're someone who proactively identifies areas for improvement in QA processes, tools, and frameworks and actively contributes to their implementation. 

Acting as the bridge between product management and software engineers you will help to deliver stable enterprise software products, educate the team on QA strategies and write and test user stories for new functionality! 

What you will do? 

Collaborate and Coordinate:

• Work closely with product management and software engineers to ensure the successful delivery of stable enterprise software products.

Testing Strategy:

• Develop and maintain comprehensive testing plans to ensure the quality of our software products.
• Conduct manual functional, exploratory, and regression tests to identify and address potential issues.

Test Automation:

• Play an integral role in test automation efforts using Playwright, including script creation, maintenance, and code reviews.
• Contribute to the overall test automation strategy and assist in transitioning manual test cases to automated tests.
• Provide guidance and training to junior QA Engineers and Developers on test automation best practices

Continuous Improvement:

• Proactively identify areas for improvement in QA processes, tools, and frameworks and actively contribute to their implementation.
• Conduct manual functionality and exploratory testing to prepare software releases effectively.
• Define and maintain test plans and test cases using test management tools such as Browserstack

Regression Test Suite:

• Help create a comprehensive regression test suite out of ad-hoc test cases and automated tests already in place
• Recognize and rectify blind spots in coverage

Automation Tools:

• Design, develop, and execute automation scripts using testing tools like Playwright and Jenkins.
• Perform code reviews for test automation work completed by developers and other QA Engineers.
• Review and rectify test failures in Selenium and Cypress test suits

Regression Testing:

• Monitor and address any failures in the regression test suite promptly.
• Verify that delivered features meet the acceptance criteria defined by the squad.

Collaboration:

• Coordinate with QA Engineers from other squads to facilitate cross-team regression testing at the end of each sprint.

What you’ll have 

• Web Application Testing: Proven experience in conducting both manual and automated testing for web applications. 

• API testing: Proven experience in testing the APIs, verifying them as per specifications and testing the data integrity through API. Good experience in stress/load testing API. 

• Backend testing: Proven experience in testing the backend tasks through a combination of verifying data in the web-application, API, database, and through detailed logs. 

• Cloud and distributed applications: experience of cloud and distributed applications is a big plus. 

• Agile Experience: Demonstrated experience working in an Agile environment, preferably with SCRUM methodologies. 

• Test Automation Skills: Strong expertise in writing and maintaining automated tests using TypeScript (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium). 

• Requirement Handling: Ability to effectively work with written requirements, extract requirements from engineers and product teams, and explore software for test case generation. 

• Problem-Solving and Communication: Strong problem-solving skills, excellent attention to detail, and effective communication skills to document defects and collaborate with cross-functional teams. 

Our values 

• We are bold  

• We are all in  

• We are customer-obsessed 

• We do what we say  

• We are good humans  

Our approach to flexibility  

We are passionate about people making their own decisions about where and when they work. Our aim is to facilitate hybrid working (mix of in the office and from home) where possible to support our people to be effective, empowered, and productive to achieve both their career and personal goals. Because we recognise that working flexibly means different things to different people, flexible working exists in many forms.  

Benefits 

• A flexible working environment  

• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing tech company  

• A focus on development with access to Go1 Learning 

• Paid time off and quarterly wellbeing days  

• Employee talent referral scheme (know great people, be rewarded)  

• A fun and friendly culture working with passionate and talented people  

• A work environment where you can genuinely improve the world of work! 

We are a diverse and dispersed organisation and are actively looking to grow our team with individuals from all diverse backgrounds. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, neurodiversity, religions, sexual orientations, and experiences to apply.  

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