Software Qa Lead

Are you passionate about creating products of quality that positively impact end-users?

Desygner is looking for a talented Software Quality Assurance Team Lead with strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills, attention to detail, patience, and a real passion for product usability to help achieve product excellence in our Consumer and Enterprise solutions.

The role

Working closely with the DevOps, QA Automation, and Manual Testing teams you will assure product quality by leveraging existing testing resources and continuously improving testing processes. You will be responsible for:

Key responsibilities:

Promoting Quality through all the stages of the development life cycle
Defining QA strategy and its execution for current development projects
Coordinating Manual and Automated QA teams for all-time synergy
Leading and training manual testers
Writing or organizing and signing off on test case creation by the QA team
Mixing hands-on, such as performing test runs, and hands-off approaches to achieve the tasks at hand
Helping achieve Continuous Delivery
Managing onshore and offshore teams
Tracking defects and providing reports to stakeholders

Required skills:

1-3+ years’ experience in a QA role as a lead
Experience working with iOS, Android and Web on multiple browsers
Native or fluent (level C1+ or equivalent) in English
Experience with different software development methodologies (Scrum/Scrumban/Kanban) and tools (Confluence/YouTrack/Jira)
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Understanding of all phases of the software development lifecycle
High attention to detail
Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Bonus skills:

Knowledge of Risk Identification, Risk Management and Risk Based Testing techniques
Experience leading QA end-to-end for large scale software projects
Developer/software engineer background
Experience with products running on AWS infrastructure
Experience with creating automated test cases for Web & APIs with various automation tools
SQL usage experience


Benefits & Perks:

We nurture a creative, focused & fun environment where people look forward to coming to the office. Our team is diverse in both culture and talent which makes for a superbly unique work environment without politics and hierarchy.
Work in the Gold Coast with views over the beaches and canals from your desk
Multicultural small, yet dynamic team with direction and leadership clear
Work on solutions used by millions of people every day
Central office location in Gold Coast near best restaurants, beaches, and public transport.
Opportunity to live a holiday lifestyle overlooking the sun and sea every morning
Competitive compensation + equity option plans by seniority


Awesome Possibility:

Candidate could potentially be sponsored to move to Australia by us if he/she is a right fit.