Senior QA Automation Engineer
Fuel50, New Zealand

Fuel50 is having great success with our AI-powered talent mobility and experience platform, landing major brands all over the globe! We have two inspirational female founders whose vision has resonated with investors across NZ, Australia, the UK and Silicon Valley.

We believe in truly practicing what we preach. Our vision and values are transparent and built on quarterly business objectives which drives our growth, encourages goal-setting, and celebrates milestones every step of the way. Our vision has been consistent since day one to make sure every employee, no matter where they are in the world, loves their job. This is a core value of ours, and we pride ourselves on how this is evident in the teams we have built at Fuel50 as well as the work we do with clients.

We’re proud to work with some of the world’s most recognizable brands Aon, Vanguard, Indeed, AIB, Ericsson (check out our FuelX conference speakers) on creating great experiences for their teams. Our product empowers forward-thinking companies to deploy career growth initiatives to attract and retain talent while boosting engagement and productivity.

We’re also a socially responsible company we work with charities who help women and minority groups land on their feet through career coaching and support.

Our Values

Fast, Fun, Fabulous and ‘Fuellie’ (The definition of ‘Fuellie’ includes friendliness among its qualities to find out more apply for this job!)

The Role

We're looking for a super-smart, super-passionate and super-on-to-it QA Automation Engineer to help us get the test automation platform of our multi-award-winning SaaS apps to the next level. As we use Continuous Integration practices to improve the speed new code reaches the hands of our customers, we also need a good suite of automated tests to help us catch eventual problems before a release.

You'll have a strong Quality Assurance background, having worked on numerous web-app projects. You'll have an extensive experience in test automation development and will be itching to develop and steward an in-house automation practice, in co-ordination with our development teams.

Meanwhile, you'll be extending yourself up the testing pipeline, working together with our Platforms and Product teams to help expand and maintain the infrastructure needed to validate and make sure we always deploy functioning, magical code. In a typical day, you might do some of the following:

• Kick off the morning with coffee and a catch-up with a diverse range of team members
• Get into the zone with some test automation development for a new feature we are launching

Requirements

You're going to love this job if you:

• Have a strong QA background
• Are proficient with developing test strategies for programming languages such as Java and .Net
• Have extensive experience in automated testing tools such as Selenium
• Will support manual testing and the QA team as and when needed
• Can work closely with developers in a collaborative way to ensure test coverage remains high and that tests are meaningful
• Are proficient with Git and able to work inside an existing codebase
• Can set up metrics for tracking overall test coverage and quality
• Have worked in Agile software development environments.
• Have worked with product design teams before, in particular for SaaS products.
• Are highly organized with great attention to detail.
• Have excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Like to work in a fast-paced environment where you must create a minimum viable product that will still be loved by people and be useful to them.
• Want to make a difference to the world by helping make people happier where they spend the majority of their time (at work!).

Benefits

As well as our day to day responsibilities, all Fuellies have an integral part in growing our culture with us and contributing to ensure that Fuel50 remains an inspirational and amazing place to work. Some additional benefits are:

• Birthday holiday, FuelVersary (your yearly work start date anniversary) holiday
• Flexible working times and remote working we’re very supportive of school drop-offs, pick-ups, or traveling in off-peak hours, etc. Regular work from home options - once you have got to know your team
• Lovely office in Takapuna (go for a walk to the beach at lunch!)

We know that having the right people with the right attitude and behaviour is a big part of what makes us successful. Living our values is an important part of being successful in this role.

We have culture around continuous (but friendly) feedback and recognition. We have super-hero awards at very quarterly sprint and every weekly meeting includes sp

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