At Pet Circle, we want to create a world where pets and their families are healthy, happy and spend more time together - and we are looking for fantastic people to help us do that!

 

Over the past ten years, we’ve scaled to become one of Australia's Top 5 eCommerce companies and the No.1 player in the Online Pet industry. We will accelerate our growth as we continue on our mission to disrupt the way that pet parents discover & shop for the products they love. 

 

The pet industry is booming (it’s a $15billion dollar industry!) and pets are holding bigger spaces in our hearts and homes than ever before. Online penetration of the pet industry is going to grow exponentially in the next 5 years. This is a unique opportunity in your career to be part of our exceptional growth story!

 

Founded and headquartered in Sydney, our team is now over 700 people strong and are based across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.

 

 

We are looking for our newest Senior Quality Assurance & Test Engineer to join our Engineering team within the Supply Chain and Operations pace. Your focus will be on maintaining a high bar of engineering quality, improving our testing infrastructure and automation processes, and ultimately driving continuous improvement of the reliability of our key e-commerce operations.

 

This will involve working with our integration platforms (middleware/iPaaS) and third-party software as well as a mix of automated and manual testing strategies. As a senior member of our QA team, your opinion and ideas are valued and you will have the opportunity to grow with us as a company and make impactful decisions.

 

Your Responsibilities:

• Review technical specifications and create test strategies
• Propose improvements in test systems and/ processes to improve quality or speed of testing
• Conduct user acceptance and exploratory testing
• Develop automated functional and performance testsIdentify test gaps and improve test plans
• Perform manual testing of new features and bug fixesIdentify and root cause issues in distributed systems, eg microservice, event driven
• Own the end-to-end testing of various integrated proprietary and third-party services
• Propose code design changes to increase testability
• Issue triaging and stakeholder engagement
• Guide teams on testing best practices, coordinating test coverage across unit, integration, and contract testing
• Conduct functional, regression, performance, ETL and end-to-end testing of new application releases and change requests
• Guide engineering team in terms of test execution and review/audit the work done to ensure completeness and quality
• Understand and negotiate with relevant stakeholders on identifying the severity and follow up until issues found are closed
• Prepare and maintain all QA documentation such as Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Metrics, Issues List and relevant records
• Identify potential problems that end user might encounter and make suggestion on improvements required
• Reconciling data between key systems to ensure data consistency

About You:

• 3-5+ years of experience in a senior software quality assurance capacity with the ability to understand, develop and execute test strategies and plans
• Ability to self-motivate and lead the test strategy and execution
• Proficiency in Typescript a must
• Proven track record in developing automated solutions from scratch
• Expert in API (RESTful) testing frameworks and tools
• Passion for improving quality of everything, including deployment, security, stability and performance or any other aspect of engineering 
• Experience in defining performance test requirements and carrying out load and stress tests
• Experience working in cross functional teams, providing support throughout the software development life cycle
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a cross-functional team of software developers, product managers, and designers
• Ability to identify and demonstrate your experience in optimising and quality assurance processes
• Strong understanding of test execution in CICD, preferably YAML-based pipelines
• Familiarity with iPaaS or Middleware is desirable

 

At Pet Circle we believe that collaboration and team connection is key for success. This role will be based in Sydney with a blended working arrangement of 3 days per week in our pet friendly offices and the remainder working from home (or the office, if you prefer!) Our working arrangements and your required office day are subject to change in line with business requirements.

 

 

We’re passionate about what we do and our love for pets is the centre of our why. Becoming a pawsome Pet Circler means you’re committed to help shape an entire industry - pretty exciting stuff! We’re a stable, innovative and low-ego group of people who relish challenges and aren’t afraid to do what’s right.