Canva

Computer Software

SeniorQAEngineer

London, United Kingdom FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior QA Engineer at Canva. Skills: improving quality, test strategy, shift left QA, Test Automation Frameworks, testing complex web apps, mobile apps, and backend services, test automation principles, scripting language like Bash or Python. main driver for improving quality in your embedded team. work with key stakeholders to drive process, tooling, and testing changes”

What You'll Achieve.

improving quality in your embedded team; drive process, tooling, and testing changes; achieving goals; improving processes and solutions

Industry & Context.

Computer Software
Problems you'll solve

identifying opportunities for injecting quality; advocating for process changes

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

experience with working with product teams, defining the QA process for your team, looking at the current development process for each team, identifying opportunities for injecting quality, advocating for process changes to improve product quality, articulate technical concepts clearly, work effectively within a team environment, readily sharing knowledge, engaging with stakeholders across the engineering organization, demonstrated experience building and maintaining robust Test Automation Frameworks, experience in testing complex web apps, mobile apps (iOS and Android), backend services, meticulous in your work, passionate about testing, experience in coaching/guiding team members with testing best practices, solid grasp of test automation principles across different levels (unit, integration, E2E), understand the challenges involved in building reliable, maintainable test suites and frameworks, automated tasks using a scripting language like Bash or Python, good understanding of what needs to be included in unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, can coach engineers on what needs to be automated

Nice to Have

Experience with Creative Software, Experience with concepts like Animation and Data Visualisation, familiarity with professional creative software, Experience with test frameworks such as Cypress or Playwright, Experience with new and upcoming tech like Machine Learning Model testing, Experience with Accessibility testing

What You'll Do.

main driver for improving quality in your embedded team

work with key stakeholders to drive process

creating the test strategy for the team's projects

focus on shift left QA activities instead of just test execution

subject matter expert for the team's testing and product knowledge

driving knowledge sharing and documentation for your team and other teams' software engineers and QA

model initiative and ownership in achieving goals

improving processes and solutions for other QA engineers

define expectations and up skill other QA engineers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

work with key stakeholders; work with other Senior QA engineers; work effectively within a team environment; engaging with stakeholders across the engineering organization; coaching/guiding team members; coach engineers on what needs to be automated

Communication Scope

articulate technical concepts clearly

Process & Methodology

defining the QA process for your team, advocating for process changes

Full Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hiya, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point. Where and how you can work The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney, Australia, London is our HQ for Europe, with all kinds of teams based here, plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. You'll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house, amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work. What you’d be doing in this role As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve. At the moment, this role is focused on: * You will be the main driver for improving quality in your embedded team and work with key stakeholders to drive process, tooling, and testing changes. * You will also be responsible for creating the test strategy for the team's projects, with a focus on shift left QA activities instead of just test execution. * You will also be the subject matter expert for the team's testing and product knowledge, driving knowledge sharing and documentation for your team and other teams' software engineers and QA * You'll also need to model initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions for other QA engineers. You'll work with other Senior QA engineers to define expectations and up skill other QA engineers. You're probably

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