13 days ago

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Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Megaport

Brisbane, AustraliaAustraliaRemote Hybrid
About Megaport
Megaport has transformed the way IT gets connected. Were global leaders in Network as a Service (NaaS), changing the way businesses reach the cloud. Were also a leading partner to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, NYSE, and many other leading technology companies. Megaport is a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange. We’re a lean, high-achieving team made up of over 300 members globally. While the company is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, employees are spread out across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Staff enjoy an environment that is collaborative, supportive, and fun.

Our Team Culture
Join a team of globally-positioned industry experts that lead by example. We do not compromise our values for commercial gain; we are all custodians of our culture, and the customer is at the centre of everything we do. Our employees are motivated, adaptable, persistent, hard-working, and dynamic. Our culture permeates everything we do and this, in turn with a global vision, forms a commitment to each other, our customers, and shareholders alike.

The Role
You’re someone who understands that QA is not just about catching bugs, it’s about ensuring we are releasing a quality product - fit for purpose, intuitive, performant, and accessible. You look at automated tests and consider ways to improve them - making them faster, more reliable and more accurate - and are happy to work with others to help them do the same.

Being involved in feature delivery all the way from design through development into production, you’re aware of what to look for during each step of the way, and what needs to happen in your cross-functional team to ensure a high-quality outcome.

What Youll Be Doing

  • The primary focus of this role is to work as a member of a cross-functional development team to maintain and improve the quality of the systems being deployed.
  • Understand requirements, specifications, and how Megaport products work in general as the basis for formulating effective automated and manual tests.
  • Collaboratively work with developers and business analysts to provide quality and testing insight from feature design through development to production.
  • Actively contribute to design spikes and reviews to identify quality improvements, concerns and impacts, including but not limited to usability, performance, accessibility, and automated testing
  • Coach and consult with developers on writing tests, including writing test cases for use throughout development
  • Design, implement and maintain automated test suites
  • Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.

What We Are Looking For

  • Extensive experience testing web applications and APIs in agile teams.
  • 5+ years experience in software quality assurance.
  • Passionate about solving problems and being a user experience advocate.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills who is adept at collaboratively working with others to drive quality outcomes.
  • A fast learner with self-drive, initiative and inquisitiveness who can pick up a task or project and drive it relentlessly to completion.
  • Comprehensive experience with at least one API & one Frontend test automation tool/framework e.g. Postman, RestAssured / Playwright, Cypress
  • Ability to use one or two programming languages[1] [2]  (scripting or high-level)
  • Demonstrated technical capability (such as reading code/unit tests, and exploring a relational database).
  • Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Git, and Continuous Integration tools
  • Experience with Java or Java-based application applications is an advantage
  • Knowledge of Telco and networking industry products and processes will be well-regarded but not essential
What We Offer
·       Competitive Compensation Packages
·       Flexible working environments
·       Birthday Leave
·       Generous study and training program + 5 days paid study leave
·       Additional Leave via Purchased Annual Leave Scheme
·       Health and Wellness Program

If you have any questions, please reach out to Megaports Talent Acquisition Team at Careers@megaport.com

NOTE: All Megaport business correspondence is conducted via our business email accounts (@megaport.com). If you have any concerns, please reach out to Megaports careers team careers@megaport.com directly and we will verify the legitimacy of any communication. Megaport will not ask you to create an account via Microsoft teams, and does not associate with any email accounts under @megaportau.com.

All applications will be treated in confidence.
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