QA Engineer

About CES

Accelerating the transition to a circular economy

We are proud to be an active contributor in the circular economy through container deposit schemes (10c refund for eligible drink containers). We help our scheme partners to recycle close to 10 million drink containers every day, diverting them from landfill into the circular economy.

Our technology and services enable the circular lifecycle of drink containers. We have a large in-house software engineering team using modern technology stacks to develop and support our products. As well as a suite of SaaS products, our range of business services includes accounting, payments, brand & marketing, materials trading, HR, customer service and support.

CES was formed in 2017 as a joint venture between Lion and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and has grown rapidly. We are headquartered in North Sydney, near public transport with beautiful harbour views. Our teams are passionate about our mission to ensure valuable materials are recycled and not wasted. We provide an inclusive culture, hybrid and flexible working and career development to bring the best out in our people.

Originally known as Container Exchange Services, we have rebranded to Circular Economy Systems to recognise our vision to be leaders in the transition to a circular economy.

About the role

The QA Engineer will work with the QA and Release Manager and Engineering Team to add value across different areas of the business in a passionate working environment. This role entails about 50/50 manual to automation, with the goal to decrease the ratio of manual testing down to 10/90. We are looking for someone who can plan testing strategies, identify and reduce risks, and implement automation where it's needed most. This is an exciting role that is, in part, about converting teams from old school mentality to the new school of shift left and CI/CD.

Key Deliverables

• Drive and lead testing efforts on your team

• Identify, write, and execute high value automation testing

• Ensure quality for all deployments, willingness to participate in technical sign-off and business acceptance.

• Design and build testing frameworks.

• Plan the testing approach armed with a strong understanding of product vision and needs.

• Ensure adequate test coverage end to end including dev testing, automation and manual exploratory testing.

• Drive the continuous improvement of tools, systems and methodologies used within the team.

About you

• 5+ years of advanced testing experience and 2+ years of automated testing experience

• Experience owning software testing from design to deployment

• Experience developing and executing testing and automation strategies; setting milestones and incremental targets

• Experience in Playwright, Cypress, or JS/TS preferable.

• Experience in integrating new and existing tests into CI/CD pipelines

• Understanding of the architecture of web software

• Experience in API (SOAP/Rest) testing using tools such as Postman, Newman, SOAPUI, Ready API

• Skilled in Web, Database testing (SQL), integration and regression testing.

• Understanding of Object Oriented Programming

• Experience with Jira, Confluence

Our Values

• Scheme success is our success:
  Our mission is to accelerate recycling rates. We make decisions in the best interest of all schemes to maximise our impact for individuals, community, and the environment.

• Win as a Team:
  The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Great things are achieved in teams that combine the right expertise and leadership.

• Make a Difference:
  Take initiative, take ownership. Openly communicate the outcome you want and go make it happen

• Be Engaged:
  Reflect your passion in your work, no matter the task or challenge. Your engagement is a source of inspiration to your peers.

• Do the Right Thing:
  Do the right thing by others and the company, and the rest will follow. Seek win-win outcomes, listen, act inclusively, and always aim for better.