Lead QA Engineer

Professional Services     ·      Brisbane/ Remote     ·    Full time

This role is available for applicants based in Brisbane as well as for remote candidates within Australia.

Max Kelsen is an industry-leading artificial intelligence and software engineering agency. We have been named AWS Data, Analytics and Machine Learning Partner of the Year, ranked 29th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for 2020, as well as 64th overall and 13th within Australia in the Financial Times Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies list for 2021.

Why Max Kelsen?

We are a rapidly growing company that believes in providing opportunities for career progression. Culturally we want our team to be open, honest, and challenge each other to be better. This does not mean we are perfect, but it does mean that we have a burning desire to keep on improving.

When you come on board at Max Kelsen, you will tackle challenging problems and work with interesting clients including Fortune 500 companies, often building solutions that have never been implemented before. Recently, these have included an application that helps to slow degenerative eye disease in children, and another that improves the effectiveness of skin cancer therapies.

The Role:

The purpose of the Test Lead role is to establish and run an independent and dedicated QA function for Max Kelsen’s Products, Managed Services and Consulting projects. In this role you will be responsible for overall test strategy and the implementation and execution of end-to-end tests. You will work alongside our software engineers who are responsible for writing their own unit tests.

What You’ll Do:

• Defining end-to-end software testing strategies 
• Defining acceptance/functional, non-functional, regression, integration and smoke test plans
• Implementing automated Integration and end-to-end tests
• Ensuring the right test case management and orchestration tooling is in place
• Reporting on software quality metrics across the organisation

Expected Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience leading a Software QA function in a Test Lead position
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and TDD and BDD approaches 
• Comfortable understanding JavaScript, TypeScript and/or Python
• Experience with relevant test automation frameworks such as Cypress, Mocha, or Selenium
• QA qualifications are desirable but not essential
• Strong planning and communication skills
• Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to develop quality software products
• Great understanding of Agile Software Development

About Max Kelsen:

Some companies are product or service centric, but we are people centric. Without our unique, diverse team we wouldn’t be able to do the work we do. Every day we strive to make Max Kelsen a place where everyone feels seen, heard and valued. Our team is encouraged to ask questions, offer solutions and be included in our journey.

In terms of working remotely or from home, we fully endorse this and support our teams to work from wherever they do their best work. We provide all the necessary equipment to work from home including monitors, keyboard, mice, and noise cancelling headphones. Our focus is delivering great outcomes for our clients, not clocking up excessive hours each week.

Enjoy an additional day of birthday leave, 2 days of charity leave to support a cause you’re passionate about, and utilise 5 days of professional development leave to ensure your career prospects continue to grow.

We value spending time together and creating strong connections, so we bring the team together a few days a month for what we call Deep Bond Days. We hold a monthly Town Hall and team BBQ at the office to ensure everyone is kept up to date on changes across the organisation. We also have an active social club with frequent lunches, talks and free social events. Previous events have included private cinema screenings, trivia nights, various sporting activities, and more.

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