QA and Test Engineer

Overview

Pet Circle Manila is part of a Sydney-founded company. We’re growing rapidly in online pet retail and are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance & Test Engineer to join our Engineering team within the Supply Chain and Operations pace. You will focus on maintaining a high bar of engineering quality, improving testing infrastructure and automation processes, and driving continuous improvement of the reliability of our key e-commerce operations. This role involves working with integration platforms (middleware/iPaaS), third-party software, and a mix of automated and manual testing strategies. As a senior member of our QA team, your opinions and ideas are valued and you will have opportunities to grow with us as a company.

• Review technical specifications and create test strategies
• Propose improvements in test systems and processes to improve quality or speed of testing
• Conduct user acceptance and exploratory testing
• Develop automated functional and performance tests; identify test gaps and improve test plans
• Perform manual testing of new features and bug fixes; identify and root cause issues in distributed systems (e.g., microservices, event-driven)
• Own the end-to-end testing of various integrated proprietary and third-party services
• Propose code design changes to increase testability
• Issue triaging and stakeholder engagement
• Guide teams on testing best practices, coordinating test coverage across unit, integration, and contract testing
• Conduct functional, regression, performance, ETL and end-to-end testing of new application releases and change requests
• Guide engineering team in terms of test execution and review/audit the work done to ensure completeness and quality
• Understand and negotiate with relevant stakeholders on identifying the severity and follow up until issues found are closed
• Prepare and maintain all QA documentation such as Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Metrics, Issues List and relevant records
• Identify potential problems that end users might encounter and suggest improvements
• Reconciling data between key systems to ensure data consistency

• 3-5+ years of experience in a senior software quality assurance capacity with the ability to understand, develop and execute test strategies and plans
• Ability to self-motivate and lead the test strategy and execution
• Proficiency in Typescript
• Proven track record in developing automated solutions from scratch
• Expert in API (RESTful) testing frameworks and tools
• Passion for improving quality of everything, including deployment, security, stability and performance
• Experience in defining performance test requirements and carrying out load and stress tests
• Experience working in cross-functional teams, providing support throughout the software development life cycle
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a cross-functional team of software developers, product managers, and designers
• Ability to identify and demonstrate experience in optimizing and quality assurance processes
• Strong understanding of test execution in CI/CD, preferably YAML-based pipelines
• Familiarity with iPaaS or Middleware is desirable
• Development opportunities via stretch projects, secondments and learning courses
• 100% Remote role
• Top-tier benefits and HMO
• Paw-rental leave and wellbeing leave

We reckon our mission to help the world Pet Better is an important and rewarding one. Becoming a Pet Circler means you’re committed to helping shape an entire industry. Here’s what we stand for:

• We\'re better together
• We operate with humble hearts and hungry minds
• Pets matter so pets and pet parents always have a seat at our table
• We\'re instinctively curious. Always.

We value diversity in all forms and welcome applicants from all backgrounds to bring their full selves to work.