Senior QA Engineer

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 are we?

Headquartered in Perth, Australia, with offices globally including in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 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 and Sri Lanka. 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. 30,000 schools and 7 million parents depend on our solutions to keep 25 million children safe in 180 countries around the world.

What’s the opportunity?

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be a key driver of quality for a couple of our teams. You will be a vital contributor, helping to ensure our products meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance. You will be a champion for the customer, ensuring that our products align with their needs and expectations.

Your mission will be to own the quality assurance process from end-to-end, working closely with developers and product managers to ensure comprehensive test coverage. You will be a foundational member of the team, guiding the overall testing strategy and helping to build a strong quality culture.

What You'll Do (Key Responsibilities)

• Test Strategy & Planning: Work closely with the product and engineering teams to define test plans and create test cases based on requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Test Execution: Use structured testing techniques to ensure comprehensive test coverage. This includes performing functional and regression testing on our UI and APIs.

• Automation: Help build and direct test automation activities, ensuring efficient and effective test execution.

• Defect Management: Identify, document, and report detailed defects found during testing, providing clear steps and expected outcomes to assist developers with troubleshooting.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Actively participate in squad ceremonies, working with developers and product managers to ensure a shared understanding of features and to provide input into the delivery process.

• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify opportunities to improve test artifacts and processes. Keep up to date with industry standards and best practices by joining online communities and reading blogs.

What You'll Bring (Core Requirements)

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in a QA Engineer role, with a proven ability to own the testing process from planning to execution.

• Technical Skills: You must be able to test our UI (React, Chakra UI, Angular) and backend APIs.

• Cloud Expertise: Demonstrable experience working in a GCP environment.

• QA Fundamentals: A strong understanding of QA methodologies and principles. You should be able to write clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.

• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical skills with an ability to identify and troubleshoot issues.

• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with a distributed, international team.

• Ownership Mentality: A proactive, self-starting attitude with a passion for taking ownership of your work and learning.

Why choose us?

• Deliver tech with purpose...

As a member of our Engineering team, your work truly matters. Your skills, knowledge and ideas will all help children stay safe online. It feels good to do good.

• With people who care...

Our Engineers are amazing! They’re also amazingly supportive. We all take ownership of our work, end to end. And at the same time, we really care about growing and winning together.

• Through work that you love...

You’ll get to work on solving problems for a global engineering team that has a user base in the tens of millions. And you'll be exposed to modern technologies and processes, in a fast-paced and supportive learning environment.

• And a career that you own...

This role offers so many opportunities to expand your skills and grow your career. You’ll get to attend local software conferences, paid for by us. And as you step up and take ownership to make things happen, you’ll carve out an incredible career.

Shortlisting will commence immediately.