What you'll do
- Create software – Guide technical design to ensure implementation of quality principles and good engineering practice. Identify the technical blockers that slow down the team, or hinder quality. Work with engineering leadership and delivery teams to identify gaps in quality and testing strategies. Get involved in all areas of the team’s software development lifecycle, providing expert guidance during the various stages.
- Regression Suite Development & Maintenance: Lead the development and maintenance of a robust regression test suite. Your focus is on ensuring the reliability and safety of fast-paced, continuous releases.
- Automation & CI/CD Advocacy: Promote and drive the automation of delivery processes. Continuously assess and enhance deployment pipelines to ensure they are effective, efficient, and aligned with business needs.
- Coaching & Support: Mentor engineers across the team to build confidence and capability in quality practices.
- End-to-End Involvement: Engage in all stages of the delivery process—from initial story refinement to post-implementation verification and make sure that quality is considered throughout.
- Relationship Building: Foster a collaborative, positive culture by building strong relationships with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Your influence promotes shared ownership of quality and encourages a culture of continuous improvement.
- Champion Xero’s Quality Strategy: Actively contribute to and advocate for Xero’s quality standards and long-term vision and with quality embedded into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
What you'll bring
- Extensive knowledge of test automation technologies with a proven ability to lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust, scalable regression test suites.
- Expertise in building automated test frameworks from the ground up, following industry best practices and leveraging modern tools and methodologies.
- Strong experience in performance testing using industry-standard tools such as Apache JMeter, Locust, and other modern frameworks to assess application scalability, stability, and responsiveness under load.
- Thorough understanding of performance testing types including load, stress, spike, and endurance testing, with practical experience in simulating real-world traffic patterns to evaluate system behavior under various conditions.
- Experience in implementing API contract testing using tools to validate request/response formats, ensuring compatibility across services and preventing integration issues.
- Ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g GitHub Actions) to streamline code integration, automated testing, and deployment workflows.
- Expertise in configuring and using code analysis tools such as Sonar Qube for continuous inspection of code quality and enforcement of code quality standards.
- Skilled in creating and managing technical metrics and logging to monitor performance, track tests, and aid debugging.
- Able to set up mocks and stubs accurately to simulate dependencies and external systems tailored to project needs, thereby enabling isolated and reliable automated testing.
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What We Do
Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.
Why Work With Us
We believe that by simplifying the complex we're not only making life better for small business, we’re helping to create a stronger, more vibrant economy. When you join this team, you’re impacting local communities, on a global scale. Being a Fast Co. Best Workplace for Innovators is a direct reflection of our creative, curious culture.
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