Senior Software Quality Engineer

Senior Software Quality Engineer, Easygo

Engineering@Easygo

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organization, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Why join us?

Are you a passionate and ambitious Senior Software Quality Engineer ready to dive into an environment that fosters innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth? We're seeking talented individuals who are eager to tackle complex problems, build scalable solutions, and collaborate with some of the finest engineers in the entertainment industry.

• Complex Projects, Creative Solutions: Dive into intricate projects that challenge and push boundaries. Solve complex technical puzzles and craft scalable solutions.
• Accelerate Your Growth: Access mentorship, training, and hands-on experiences to level up your skills. Learn from industry experts and gain expertise in scaling software.
• Collaborate with Industry Leaders: Work alongside exceptional engineers, exchanging ideas and driving innovation forward through collaboration.
• Caring Culture, Career Development: We deeply care about your career. Our culture prioritizes your growth with tailored learning programs and mentorship.
• Embrace Challenges, Celebrate Success: Take on challenges, learn from failures, and celebrate achievements together.
• Shape the Future: Your contributions will shape the future of entertainment.

If you're passionate about growth, innovation, and working with the best, we'd love to have you on our team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Champion quality strategies within fast-paced Agile sprints, focusing on rapid feedback loops and minimising waste to accelerate product delivery.
• Design and execute rapid test cycles, including automated functional, performance, and security testing, to provide immediate feedback within CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect and optimise automated test pipelines, leveraging modern frameworks to ensure robust regression testing, and accelerate release cycles.
• Conduct strategic exploratory testing to uncover high-impact defects in rapidly evolving features, ensuring a balance between speed and thoroughness.
• Facilitate collaborative defect resolution within cross-functional teams, incorporating stakeholder feedback to drive continuous product improvement and user-centric quality.
• Proactively participate in code and design reviews, embedding quality early in the development process and fostering a culture of shared ownership.
• (Senior or higher level) Lead initiatives to drive testing innovation, adopting cutting-edge tools and methodologies to optimise testing efficiency and effectiveness in a high-velocity environment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience with a strong emphasis on software quality assurance.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in Software Quality Engineering, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software in Agile environments.
• Proficient in designing, developing, and maintaining automated test suites and frameworks for E2E and API (e.g., using tools like Playwright, Cypress, or similar).
• Exposure to performance testing tools such as k6 or similar, with the ability to analyse performance metrics and identify bottlenecks.
• Strong understanding of software quality principles, testing methodologies, and best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on identifying and preventing defects.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• A strong desire to learn new technologies and continuously improve testing skills.
• (Senior or higher level) Strong leadership qualities, capable of mentoring and fostering growth in others.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Familiarity with technologies such as Docker, and cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to effectively test and validate software.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., AWS Code Pipeline, Github Actions) for automating the deployment process.
• Experience using monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Grafana) to analyse system performance and identify potential issues.
• Exposure to, or experience contributing to, lower-level tests such as Unit and Integration tests.

Some of the perks of joining us:

• EAP access for you and your family
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform 
• Paid volunteer day
• Two full-time barista’s who will make your daily coffee, tea or fresh juice!
• Daily catered breakfast
• Massage Wednesdays - we get professionals to do this!
• Team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays
• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles
• Help yourself drinks fridges and snack shelves

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We a