KPMG
Senior QA Engineer
To turn knowledge and understanding of information, industries and business trends into value for our firms' clients, our people and the capital markets
Software Engineering
Full-time
Office | Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Mid Level · A role for someone with some well-developed knowledge and skills they can bring to the role and team. Typically within 2-5 years of experience.
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Why KPMG
Welcome to KPMG. We are a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services across a wide range of industries, government and not for profit sectors. KPMG provides a full range of services tailored to meet the unique needs of mid-sized, fast growing and family owned businesses.
In Australia, KPMG has a long tradition of professionalism and integrity, combined with our dynamic approach to helping clients in a digital-driven world. We have approximately 6,700 people, including over 400 partners, with 13 offices around the country.
About the role
Job Description KPMG Origins is a SaaS startup (a KPMG venture) that streamlines interactions between organisations, industries, and borders to enable supply chain ecosystems to thrive via trustworthy data. Our mission is to address the global pressing problems of today, such as cost of living, food insecurity, sustainability, human rights, consumer transparency and environmental protection. Please check out what we have done in more detail: https://kpmgorigins.com/ KPMG Origins is one of several ventures within KPMG Futures. With an exciting mandate to do things differently, we're investing in and evolving this specialist team to focus on the future - including future sectors, future technologies, future services, future business models and more. KPMG Futures will pursue opportunities in areas such as quantum computing, and next-gen AI. One of our main objectives is to build a portfolio of game-changing businesses. Core to this objective is our venture partnering capability which aims to create strategic collaborations between our firm and ground-breaking start-ups to solve our clients most pressing problems. Our culture is characterised by a start-up mentality combined with professional entrepreneurship. Our team is made up of passionate people who want to deliver value to clients in a new context, in which we connect in-depth specialist knowledge with the latest technological possibilities. We are looking for people who want to take on this challenge with us and are ready to contribute to the growth of the firm. We're on the lookout for a **Senior QA Engineer **to join our dynamic team for a fix-term contract up to 12 months. Your Opportunity You'll be working as part of a highly talented and agile team, and be responsible for multiple aspects of QA across the KPMG Origins platform. You'll be maintaining and innovating QA processes to drive technological advancements and business outcomes. Key responsibilities:
- Work in a highly agile team
- Collaborate closely with engineers, UX designers, BAs and other stakeholders
- Manage test scenarios and bugs
- Follow and improve QA processes with the team
- Perform automated and manual testing - regression, functional and exploratory
- Evolve automation of the platform to reduce manual tasks
- Do peer code review of the automation tests
How are you extraordinary?
- Have a passion for QA, curious and courageous
- Eager to learn and proactively seek knowledge about new technologies and frameworks to find better solutions to technical problems
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to approach problems in a logical and structured way
- Continuous improvement mindset (if you think something can be improved, you will speak your mind and provide a real way forward to achieve this)
- Kind, positive, keen to share knowledge and help others
- Good communication skills
Qualifications
- Proven experience with software quality assurance for web applications
- Confidence with JavaScript or TypeScript
- Production experience implementing end-to-end tests for a web application (preferably using Cypress or Playwright)
- At least 3+ years of professional experience as a Test Analyst
- Strong communication skills
- Attention to details
- Experience managing test scenarios and bugs
- Manual Testing Experience - Regression, Functional and Exploratory
- Experience with test automation
- Experience in backend testing (POSTMAN API, Swagger or another API clients)
- Bonus: experience managing test cases in TestRail
What you'll be responsible for
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Stakeholder Engagement
Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights
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Scripting and Automation
Develop scripts and automated workflows to improve the efficiency and accuracy of repeated tasks
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Test Engineering
Create and implement code tests and software test automation
Skills you'll need
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Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
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Numerical problem solving
Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems
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Attention to detail
Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables