QA Engineer - Appliance

Want to deliver tech with purpose, with people who care?

Join us in our mission to create solutions that help keep children safe online.

Who we are:

Headquartered in Perth, Australia, Qoria is an ASX listed global leader in child digital safety technology and services. We are a purpose-driven business with a mission to keep every child safe and thriving in their digital life. We operate under the ‘Linewize’ brand in North America and Asia Pacific, under the ‘Smoothwall’ brand in the UK, and under the ‘Qoria’ brand in EMEA. Our solutions are utilised by schools, school districts and their parental communities to protect children from seeing harmful content online, to identify children at risk based on their digital behaviours and to ensure teachers maintain focus and safe learning in the digital classroom. 27k schools and 6 million parents depend on our solutions to keep 23 million children safe in 180 countries around the world.

What’s the opportunity?

We need a strong QA Engineer to join our team of dedicated Test Engineers - our team in Leeds are rolling out multiple new products and features. After your induction, you’ll play a key role in supporting our mission of creating safe online environments in which children can thrive. You’ll work in our Appliance team alongside our existing tester, developers and a product owner to help produce and improve quality software. A daily part of your role will be to work closely with the developers to test new features and assist in rolling these out into production. The primary focus of the team is to maintain a bespoke Linux-based distribution comprising of key components such as: firewall, web-content filter, authentication. This software runs on top of a line-up of hardware appliances which customers install into their network. Because of this, the environment our software is deployed into can provide interesting challenges. You will be working with a variety of hardware and software scenarios, so an in depth understanding of networking would be ideal in this role.  

You won’t be bored and you’ll know that your work is truly important for keeping our wheels turning. You’ll be working across a hybrid delivery model on exciting projects that make a real life impact on our children’s digital journeys.

Here's how you'll do it:

• Creating environments which mimic real-world customer installations so our software can be tested against those at scale

• Including setting up services such as: RADIUS & Active Directory

• Configure networking appliances, load balancers, switches & physical servers

• Conduct our performance testing and hardware verification of new appliances

• Building up Smoothwall configuration profiles to define the behaviour of the Smoothwall so that testing is reproducible and predictable

• An opportunity to establish automated tests for User Stories in this team

• Working within a development team using task management tools such as Azure DevOps & Jira. Taking part in daily stand ups and help ensure quality is at the heart of our software development

What will you bring?

• A curious mind that seeks continuous learning and development

• Empathy for our end-users

• You'll be confident navigating and using the linux command line environment while working on Linux based technologies.

• Use of virtual software to drive component creation (including, but not limited to):

  • Vagrant

  • VirtualBox

  • Docker

• Experience Networking (for the creation of services and to setup communication between them):

• TCP/IP, UDP

• VLANs

• Firewalls

• HTTP protocols

• VPN

• Proxy

• Experience with building & upgrading hardware and familiarity with CPU & motherboard architecture

• You’ll be able to demonstrate good skills and experience in scripting languages such as Shell, Python etc…

• Ideally have some experience with non-functional testing specifically performance testing hardware

Why choose Smoothwall by Qoria?

In this role, you can expect:

• Employee stock options
• Enhanced holiday & family leave
• Tech Allowance
  .... and much more

More importantly, you’ll:

• Deliver tech with purpose…

As part of our Engineering team, your work truly matters. Your contribution will enable our team members to deliver real-world results for children, their families and the wider community.

• With people who care…

You’ll work among a close-knit team of like-minded professionals who share your passion for doing a great job and helping others. Your colleagues will be quality-focused, detail-oriented and honest team players. And they’ll expect the same of you.

• Through work that you love…

Every day in our business brings exciting, important challenges. In addition to your day-to-day responsibilities, we’ll be counting on you to constantly think outside the box and always have quality at the forefront of what you do.

Shortlisting will commence immediately.