QA Lead

**Company Description**:
At Shift, disruption, transformation, and positive change is important to us. We’re resetting expectations around how businesses trade, pay and access funds with an experience that is simple and seamless. Enabled by streaming data, we provide credit and payments platforms that are a better way to do business.

We’re here to help Australian businesses and want you to be a part of it. As part of the team, you’ll approach new challenges with a clean sheet of paper, reimagine possibilities and deliver results that are 10x better than before.

As one of Australia’s fastest-growing companies, you’ll join a team that has been recognised across the industry.
- AFR’s Fast 100
- Deloitte’s Technology Fast50,
- Smart Company’s Smart50
- Deloitte’s Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500

**Make Your Mark**

We currently have an exciting new opportunity for a QA Lead to join our QA team in our Sydney office. In this role, you will be responsible for performing the testing of Finance products which involves Test Planning, Execution, Automation, Regression and Production verification to ensure all the business product’s quality requirements are met. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritise the requirements of the products, and you will lead the quality driven testing across the business.

**Qualifications**:
**Key responsibilities**:

- Enable the team to ensure delivery of high-quality products through contribution to the development and implementation of a comprehensive quality strategy for the platform and services the team is responsible for
- Provide guidance and mentorship across the team on matters related to testing practice and approach.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize test requirements, and to ensure that all features and changes are thoroughly tested and meet quality standards
- Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts to ensure the platform and services are thoroughly tested and meet the expectations of our users and the business.
- Design, development, implementation and maintenance of a test automation suite integrated with the team’s CI/CD pipeline for the purpose of supporting a continuous quality approach.
- Identify, triage, manage and track defects, working with Stakeholders, Product Managers, Developers and Software Engineers to ensure they are resolved effectively.
- Participate in the planning, guidance and execution of user acceptance testing and other testing activities.
- Remain up to date with industry best practice and trends in QA and testing, leading the testing activities and continuous improvements in process within the team

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
- 6+ years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance (Software Engineering experience will also be considered)
- Strong understanding of, and 2+ years’ experience with automated testing tools, frameworks and processes (e.g. Cypress, Selenium, TestRail, etc.)
- Experience with programming and scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript, C# or Java)
- Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle, testing methodologies and tools with experience working in an agile organization as part of a scrum team
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot and debug complex issues.
- Experience coaching and mentoring teams in the area of testing and quality practice.

**Nice-to-have's**:

- Experience in a lead or management role
- Experience working with a fintech or with financial software development and knowledge of Australian regulatory requirements relevant to the fintech industry is a plus
- Experience with web technologies, such as ReactJS
- Experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous testing best practice
- Experience in Security Testing or Performance Testing

**Additional Information**:
**Our Culture**

You’ll have supportive management helping develop your skills with regular catch ups, career development programs and annual reviews. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a diverse, talented and results-driven team that thrives on new challenges in an innovative and transformational setting.** **We value all employee input, you won’t find politics or egos: just one team, with shared successes and shared learnings.

**The Perks**

At Shift, you’ll get great range of benefits such as:

- Industry leading 26 weeks paid parental leave & 2 weeks partner leave.
- Flexible working, from home and office and get your birthday off
- Diversity is probably something you care about, there are 26 different languages spoken by employees here.
- We have a private prayer room and mothers’ room on site for employees to use.
- If you like keeping active on your way to wo