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QA Engineer

  • Hybrid
    • Leeds, England, United Kingdom
  • Engineering

Job description

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, with offices globally including in Leeds, UK, Qoria is an ASX listed global leader in child digital safety technology and services. We are a purpose-driven business, operating under the ‘Linewize’ brand in North America and Asia Pacific, the ‘Smoothwall’ brand in the UK, and the ‘Qoria’ brand in EMEA. Our solutions are utilised by schools, school districts, and parental communities to protect children from seeing harmful content online, identify children at risk based on their digital behaviours and ensure teachers maintain focus and safe learning in the digital classroom. 27k schools and 6 million parents depend on our solutions to keep 22 million children safe in 180 countries around the world.


What’s the opportunity?

As part of our engineering team, you’ll play a key role in supporting our mission of creating safe online environments where children can thrive. You’ll work as part of a team of developers and product managers 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. This is a manual and automation testing role, where you will create and execute manual test scripts and automation tests in Playwright with Typescript.

You will join our Agents and Data Ingress squad, delivering strategic projects to safeguard children by monitoring the content of their devices and cloud environments, maintaining and improving scalable solutions which process billions of captures a month.


Here's how you'll do it:

  • Work as a Senior QA Engineer testing within a multi-platform Azure Cloud and Google Cloud Environment.

  • Manage & support creating manual and automated tests for User Stories and our products’ smoke and regression packs.

  • Create Automation tests within Playwright using TypeScript for Front-end tests, API and Database tests.

  • Test applications across different devices such as Chromebooks, iPads Windows and Macs.

  • Work within a development team using an Agile Process, which includes participating in Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, refinement, planning and retrospectives.

Job requirements

You'll have:

  • Exceptional experience developing automation tests, specifically API, database and UI testing.

  • Demonstrable skills and experience in TypeScript.

  • Experience working within an Agile development process.

  • An understanding of Cloud technologies.

  • Ideally experience testing Microservices.

  • Ideally have some experience with non-functional testing.

  • Ideally have some experience with Playwright.

What’s our technology stack?

The tech stack focuses on TypeScript and Playwright for testing, alongside cloud platforms like Azure and Google Cloud. Agile methodology is fundamental to development, and experience is required in manual and automated testing, as well as in API, database, and potentially microservices testing.


Why choose Smoothwall by Qoria:

In this role, you can expect:

  • Employee Share Scheme

  • Tech Allowance

  • Learning Allowance ...and much more!

More importantly, you will:

  • Make a Meaningful Impact
    As part of the Engineering department, your contributions are significant. Your expertise, insights, and creativity will help ensure children remain safe online. It’s rewarding to make a positive difference.
  • Work with a Supportive Team
    Our Engineering teams are not just talented; they are incredibly supportive. We all take full responsibility for our work from start to finish and genuinely value collaboration and collective success.
  • Engage in Passionate Work
    You’ll tackle technology and data scaling challenges for a diverse global clientele. This role provides exposure to cutting-edge technologies and processes within a dynamic and nurturing learning environment.
  • Shape Your Own Career
    This position is rich with opportunities to enhance your skills and advance your career. You’ll have the chance to attend local software conferences, with costs covered by us. By taking initiative and driving progress, you’ll pave the way for a remarkable career journey.

Shortlisting will commence immediately.

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