QA Automation Engineer

Looking for a QA Automation Engineer for a fast-growing start-up

Step into the vibrant world of Desygner, where innovation meets creativity and a drive for excellence! Our dynamic multicultural team based in Gold Coast celebrates diversity and makes sure bright, talented minds are prized above all!

As part of the Desygner team, you will have the opportunity to improve the quality of life for millions of people using our design-orientated tools while growing professionally working on interesting and challenging problems.

The Role

As a QA Automation Engineer at Desygner, you will work closely with Desygner’s development and QA teams to increase our automated test coverage and introduce new methods of assuring product quality. You will play an active role in defining and implementing test scenarios that would assist the whole team in making our products better.

Key Responsibilities
Ensuring new and existing features meet their specified requirements.
Breaking things, finding problems, and making sure it doesn’t happen again.
Designing test scenarios, scripts, or procedures that fit with the concepts of test automation and continuous delivery.
Helping define and manage our testing processes by creating resilient automated test suites to exercise with Continuous Integration tools.
Participating in the team’s agile planning to deliver processes and support production deployments.
Continuing to learn and improve on testing automation.

Required Skills

The perfect candidate would have experience with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity), testing tools (Selenide or equivalent testing framework using Selenium. Some of Mocha, Puppeteer, Cypress), and preferred programming skills in either Java, C, or JavaScript.
Experience working in an automated test environment.
Ability to write complex UI and API testing setups that allow for growth of test coverage that goes into hundreds of test cases.
Experience in REST Assured or postman .
Experience in optimising test execution for speed.
At least 1 year of relevant Automated Web Testing.
Experience automating tests for web services, web clients, and APIs.
Ability to describe, delegate, and execute manual tests.
Experience in the usage of test reporting frameworks.
Strong communication skills to report bugs and understand clients’ needs.
Ability to track down the root cause of defects using debugging tools.

Desired Skills

Familiar with the release cycle, process, and flow concepts.
Experience in troubleshooting on all major web browsers.
Basic understanding of TDD and BDD.

The Application Process

We will review all applications and will start contacting shortlisted candidates after 2 weeks. Only those who complete the instructions below will be shortlisted.

Please submit your resume along with link/s of your public repository coding references (GitHub, Bitbucket, etc).
Answers to the below pre-qualifying questions.
1. Can you describe your experience with test automation frameworks/tools?
2. How do you approach identifying and prioritizing test cases for automation?
3. Can you provide an example of a complex automation project you have worked on, and the challenges you faced?
4. How do you ensure the reliability and stability of automation scripts?
5. How do you collaborate with developers and other team members to integrate automation into the software development lifecycle?
6. What is your monthly minimum salary expectation in USD?

Benefits & Perks

We nurture a creative, focused & fun environment. Our team is diverse in
both culture and talent which makes for a superbly unique work environment without politics and hierarchy.

Multicultural and small, yet dynamic team with clear direction and leadership.
Possibility to work on solutions used by millions of people every day.
Competitive compensation + equity option plans by seniority.
Guarantee of being respected and heard in a startup that is smashing numbers.
Continuous learning, development, and support.

About Us

Desygner stands proudly as one of the leading tech companies in the world, ranking among the top 2 startups in Australia, and among the top 200 worldwide, entirely bootstrapped!

Our journey is unlike any other, starting with no investment and relying solely on our determination and resourcefulness. We have successfully built our company from the ground up, embracing the spirit of bootstrapping, and are now on an exciting growth trajectory.

Desygner offers a comprehensive solution designed to solve the many challenges businesses face in creating effective marketing collateral.

We believe that anyone should have a powerful brand and opportunities, regardless of their marketing budget. Our users’ success is our success and we’re on a mission to deliver solutions that make marketing better and easier for them.

By joining Desygner, you have the extraordinary chance to be part of something truly significant before we experience explosive growth.
Global audience with 38 million users & 25,000 signups every day.
Big corporate clients with many more industry leaders coming on board.
Leading technology in graphic design, on-brand content creation, PDF editing, and AI design automation.