QA Engineer (Quality Assistance)

• Role based in Sydney
• Join a team of 85+ professionals who are passionate about releasing high quality products with confidence
• Grow your career by driving quality on a world class globally distributed solution.

The Opportunity

Due to an internal promotion, we are looking for a QA Engineer (Quality Assistance) to join our team and assist in driving the improvement of quality and speed up development time. Embedded in teams and working in an agile environment you will provide technical leadership and provide technical expertise and support while delivering quality software. You will have a great understanding of all the skills and competencies required to bring a successful software product to life and understand that you are a critical part of a creative and learning environment for the organisation. You will work closely with developers on innovative projects, whilst collaborating with product managers, designers and support engineers. This role will work closely with our Front-End team and doing the testing for our official website.

The role you’ll play as a Quality Engineer:

• Working closely with delivery teams and participating in building software solutions with a quality mindset.
• Pair testing with engineers and improving the automated test and overall release process.
• Collaboratively work with other stakeholders such as Customer Care, Product, Project Management, Sales and Marketing to ensure the right people are engaged in acceptance and have structured and fulsome scope to work within;
• Identifying the areas for improvements and working closely with the team to implement them.
• Be curious, have fun testing things, playing with new technologies.
• Learn how to be considered, to think through complexity, solve problems and apply conceptual thinking.
• Be mentored and given clear personal and collaborative goals to achieve business outcomes.
• Collaborate with the Tech Team to solve challenging pain points.
• Be given exposure to and work with the Scrum / Project teams.
• Be expected to share your opinions, your input will be valuable.

What are we looking for?

• Excellent understanding of Agile development methodology and development practices.
• Sound knowledge and hands-on experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Locust and Postman.
• Track record in delivering automation solutions for Web, Content management platform and Restful API’s.
• Understanding of technical fundamentals including: Engineering practices, Coding best practices, Testing approaches and outcomes, Version control strategies, CI/CD principles
• Experience in testing responsive websites across multiple devices and platforms using browserstack.
• Demonstrated experience in languages such as TypeScript, Javascript and Python.
• Experience in helping teams to deliver with confidence, using tools available to them.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal communication, attention to detail and follow-through skills.
• Experience working in a dynamic environment with the ability to learn and adapt quickly to new methodologies and technologies

Benefits:

• We run an incentive scheme based on both company-wide targets because we are all in the same boat, as well as individual KPIs
• There are generous benefits including employee referral program and staff discounts
• We have regular virtual and face-to-face events to help us bond and maintain our community vibe
• Hybrid work environment. We offer flexible hours, Culture Swap Days & 30 day work from anywhere* opportunity and monthly half day FriYays! 
• Self led online learning to formal Leadership Development programs, as well as industry specific learning opportunities and Lunch & Learn sessions
• Company wide FIRE Hackathons and Fortnight FIRE Fridays where teams come collaborate to spark with Formative Ideas, Research and Experiment in tech improvements
• Be an advocate or ally and create connection and belonging in our employee Resource Groups such as EmpowHer and Pride.
• Global Value Ambassador Program creating value inspired initiatives for our Prezzee People
• Lifeworks Wellbeing platform to support your mental, social, financial and physical wellbeing

The Prezzee Story

Prezzee is a global digital gifting platform that creates human connections through remarkable gifting moments. We create leading digital gift solutions for consumers, businesses and 800+ brand partners across the world. Founded in 2014, Prezzee has evolved from a two person Australian start-up to a global business with a 300+ team and operations in North America, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

Oh, and if you're wondering about our culture?

Whilst our growth is compelling, we know it’s our people and culture that set us apart, and we're equally proud of being recognised in Australia & New Zealand and in the UK as a 2022 Great Place to Work®.  

At Prezzee, every team member plays an important role in the business, leaving a unique footprint on Prezzee’s journey. Our team may be spread out across multiple time zones, but our core values remain the same no matter where you are in the world. As a future employee of Prezzee, you're signing up to give openness, give greatness, give magic, and most importantly, always give a damn 

Prezzee is an Equal Opportunity employer. We believe that diversity is the key to building the best products for our customers, team culture and  growing our global business.  Our diversity mission is for our people to be their most authentic selves, to inspire, innovate and celebrate within a culture of belonging.  We do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

We are looking for people to help create  human connections, make magic and shape the future of gifting so even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you!

Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application and recruitment process, We also encourage you to let us know of your pronouns at any point of the process. 

We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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