QA Automation Engineer (Javascript/ Typescript)

India (Remote)
Engineering - Devices and Frontend – Devices and Frontend /
Full Time /
Remote
The Role
As a QA Engineer you ensure that the products meet the required quality standards. Your work mainly involves software testing (manual & automation) , and you are responsible for developing and documenting testing procedures to make sure the software products are functioning properly and are usable.

You will be responsible for testing and supporting cloud native, highly available, robust and secure applications in the AWS environment. You will have experience in backend, API and database testing.

With automation and maintenance being at the heart of our engineering principles, this position will have the enviable opportunity to adopt and promote best practices, bleeding edge technologies and trends. While there is a primary area of expertise and responsibilities shaped by the initial project assigned, this role is not limited to a single product area or type over time and will work in a cross functional team with skill sets in full stack software engineering, devops, infrastructure, quality assurance to architect. You will collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to own product software development, contribute and promote standards and engineering best practices, support operational activities such as; process automation, compliance activities, SLA upkeep requirements.

You’ll be tasked with translating business or product requirements into technical designs, hands-on implementation of the designs to see through its testing and deployment into various environments such as; development, stress testing, integration testing, staging and production.

You will enjoy the fun of development from scratch in some application components while adhering to the company engineering standards, frameworks and best practices. You will also be a collaborative engineer capable of observing and contributing to existing works by other team members. Automation and maintenance is key, you will be excited to see through your contributions into production and maintain their longevity in the mission-critical environment. 

Role & Responsibilities:

    • Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
    • Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
    • Design, develop and execute automation scripts.
    • Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.
    • Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
    • Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products.
    • Collaborate with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
    • Monitor debugging process results
    • Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
    • Recommend improvements in software to enhance user experience
    • Works together with the software developer to enhance and improve programs
    • Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

Experience, Skills And Attributes

    • Minimum of a Bachelor degree in software engineering (or related)
    • 4+ experience in software testing (Test Automation )
    • Experience in Javascript/ Typescript is a must
    • In-depth understanding of any programming language 
    • Experience in API testing (Postman/ REST)
    • Exceptional attention to detail
    • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
    • Good oral and written communication skills 
    • Knowledge on AWS
    • Great team player and able to work efficiently with minimal supervision
Working remotely, in India, this is an exciting opportunity to join one of Australia's fastest growing companies.
Apply today, we're excited to hear from you!