QA Engineer

Moodle with us!

At Moodle, we’re on a mission to empower educators and learners worldwide with open, flexible, and innovative digital learning solutions. As the world’s most customisable and trusted open-source LMS, we partner with schools, universities, and organisations to create better learning experiences for millions. If you’re ready to make a real impact, and be part of a global movement shaping the future of learning, join us let’s transform education together!

About the Role

As a key QA Expert, you will be responsible for enhancing the quality of Moodle product releases. This involves improving manual and automated test suites, reviewing and refining testing processes, and optimising the test infrastructure. You will work closely with product teams to improve automated tests, automate manual tests, and contribute to the development of tests for new features. You will also stay informed about best practices in software testing to continuously enhance Moodle’s test processes.

This role is open within Europe and Australia.

What You’ll Do

Most days in this role usually involve a mix of:

• Engaging with the Moodle and developer communities, promoting Quality Best Practices.
• Writing Behat tests for automated testing of new and existing Moodle features.
• Peer review code changes related to testing, including Behat and PHPUnit.
• Improving the quality, coverage, and performance of existing automated tests.
• Supporting our external testers.
• Monitoring and analysing CI builds, identifying, reporting and helping resolve failures.
• Maintaining and improving CI pipelines, including adding support for other Moodle products.
• Assisting in maintaining and improving Moodle's CI infrastructure.
• Developing and maintaining a performance testing framework for Moodle at scale.
• Incorporating performance testing into the QA cycle.
• Identifying opportunities, and documenting them in Jira, to automating QA tests within the major release cycle.
• Assisting in writing manual QA tests as needed.

Requirements

We’d love to meet you

Especially if you can tell us about your:

• Experience working with in a large-scale test driven development environment
• Experience with and knowledge of Behaviour Driven Development Testing
• Knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript Ajax
• Understanding of databases and SQL
• Experience with Selenium, Chromedriver, and/or Geckodriver
• Knowledge of performance, object oriented principles, design patterns and security
• (Any) previous experience of working with Moodle LMS

Bonus points

• Experience with other CI systems like GitHub Actions or Jenkins and an understanding of Docker and container usage.
• Active participation as a regular Open Source contributor and experience with Behat as a BDD Testing tool.

Knowledge of accessibility requirements and ability to use related tools to identify issues.

Benefits

What's in it for you?

Moodle has a globally diverse team with over 280 team members in more than 25 countries around the world. We’ve built a passionate team of hard-working, driven and diverse people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education (yes, these are our company values!)

In addition to this you can expect:

• Taking on a genuinely flexible, distributed role, working from anywhere in the world

• A fantastic range of benefits, focusing on work-life balance, wellbeing and ‘choosing your own adventure.’
• Working with a global team on a worldwide platform and make a real difference.
• As a certified B Corp, we are proud to be part of a global community of mission-driven companies dedicated to using business as a force for good.

Learn more about Moodle

Moodle is the world’s most trusted online learning solution, with a growing ecosystem of products and services, including Moodle Workplace, Moodle App, MoodleCloud, and more. The engine of our ecosystem is Moodle LMS, the secure and customisable open source learning management platform used by well over 300 million learners worldwide.

Find out more about us on our website.

At Moodle we are an equal opportunity employer that actively supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to fair recruitment and selection practices, ensuring we are drawing from a diverse range of sources to attract and select the very best person for the job. Learn more in our Diversity Inclusion Charter.