QA Engineer (Mobile)Hybrid

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

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, including script creation, maintenance, and code reviews.
• Contribute to the overall test automation strategy and assist in transitioning manual test cases to automated tests.

Continuous Improvement:

• Proactively identify areas for improvement in QA processes, tools, and frameworks and actively contribute to their implementation.
• Define and maintain test plans and test cases using test management tools such as Browserstack.

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.

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: 

• Work closely with product management and software engineers to ensure the successful delivery of stable enterprise software products. 
• Coordinate with QA Engineers from other squads to facilitate cross-team regression testing at the end of each sprint. 
• Support the mentoring and development of UI automation skills among our software engineers. 

Scrum Participation:

• Actively participate in scrum ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other relevant meetings.

What you’ll need

• Mobile Application Testing: At least 5 years of proven experience in conducting both manual and automated testing for mobile applications. 
• API Testing: Proven experience in testing APIs, verifying them as per specifications, and testing data integrity through APIs. Good experience in stress/load testing APIs.
• Backend Testing: Proven experience in testing backend tasks by verifying data in web applications, APIs, databases, and through detailed logs.
• Cloud and Distributed Applications: Experience with 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, Python and Appium  
• Requirement Handling: Ability to effectively interpret written requirements, extract inputs from engineers and product teams, and explore software to generate test cases.
• Problem-Solving and Communication: Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and effective communication to document defects and collaborate across 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 
• Paid parental leave 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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