Senior Quality Engineer

Job Description

Are you passionate about driving software quality through both hands-on testing and building testing communities? Do you thrive on collaborating with engineers to champion best testing practices across teams? If so, we'd love to hear from you

At PaperCut, our Quality team partners closely with Product teams to ensure software excellence through a blend of manual testing, test automation, and performance benchmarking. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our approach to quality balancing hands-on exploratory testing with the implementation of automation testing at scale.

This full-time hybrid role reports to our Quality Lead and is based in our Camberwell office three days per week.

Some of the things you'll do...

• Act as a community builder — engaging with internal teams and external partners to share learnings, advocate for quality, and drive adoption of testing standards.
• Shape and implement PaperCut's test strategy, identifying areas for improvement and selecting the right tools and frameworks.
• Develop repeatable tests, including end-to-end, integration, canary, and system regression tests, ensuring ongoing software quality.
• Partner with Engineers and our Quality Lead to define and monitor performance, load, and scalability benchmarks for our products.
• Influence and uplift testing capabilities across PaperCut, allowing Engineers to refine automated test suites themselves.
• Champion strong quality best practices across both manual and automated testing, ensuring consistency and rigour in how we test.
• Collaborate with our automation team to increase scope and coverage of our automation testing framework.

A little about you...

• You have experience in a similar role you are experienced designing and implementing test plans that align to product needs.
• You're passionate about coaching and up skilling Engineers in automation best practices to create a quality-first mindset.
• You love working in an Agile, collaborative environment where quality is a shared responsibility.
• You have the ability to jump into projects and take ownership of testing end-to-end, from building testing at a high level through to working with partners and ensuring outcomes are delivered.
• You are a confident communicator and have the skills to explain testing approaches and work with people across different teams.
• You're great at building communities, evangelising for test and quality needs.

Additional Information

What else can you expect from us?

• PaperCutters are eligible for an annual bonus where we Share the Success of our collective achievements.
• You receive generous leave options, including up to 18 weeks of parental leave.
• Empowered development options with a spend-as-you-like annual training budget.
• We're led by our values in everything we do - Caring, Honest, Intelligent and Nimble (CHIN).
• Our Camberwell office has free parking and unlimited coffee from our in-house espresso machine.
• Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging programmes are highly visible day-to-day.

More about PaperCut

We like to say we're the most exciting company in the most boring part of IT. We're an award-winning market leader in Print Management solutions.

Proudly B-Corp Certified, PaperCut helps hundreds of millions of people around the globe minimise waste while having a secure and easy printing experience. Simply put, our code saves trees, and in 25 years, we have saved 360,000 trees and counting. Now, through our Forest Positive programme, PaperCut Grows, we help customers turn their printed pages into newly planted trees.

Now is an exciting time to join PaperCut as we accelerate the transition of our product suite to cloud and beyond.

Our commitment to you

Our hiring process lets you show off the very best version of yourself while learning all about us at the same time. Our pinky promise is a candidate experience that's enjoyable, thorough, and fair. That's our way of inspiring the world's brightest minds to become PaperCutters.

As an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion, we proudly encourage people from all walks of life to apply (even tea drinkers). We welcome you to highlight any alternative working arrangements you might need during your application.

PaperCut is a proud 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to responding to every applicant.