Test Automation Engineer

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses thrive through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference the world is a more beautiful place.

Our Purpose, and values

Xero recently acquired an amazing business in Sweden; Tickstar. We saw a #beautiful connection to help businesses thrive through better tools, information and connection. Together, we're reducing administrative burden and making it easier for businesses around the world to transact and exchange documents across borders.

At Tickstar, we’re on a journey to help businesses connect and interact more seamlessly through electronic transfer of business documents. We started on this journey 14 years ago and are pioneers in the field of eDelivery, and now service large scale corporations throughout Europe, Asia and Oceana.

Tickstar offers a suite of cloud based solutions, enabling customers to send and receive documents through the Peppol network - a secure eDelivery network that has been adopted by a number of leading economies around the world. Tickstar is now one of the most trusted providers globally, operating one in five access points on the Peppol network.

Find out more about Tickstar at http://www.tickstar.com

Our values are: #Human #Ownership #Team #Challenge and #Beautiful. They create our special culture and the ‘Xero way’ that we want to foster and maintain as we scale and grow at speed. They're integral to our brand and resonate outside Xero through our ecosystem and ultimately our customers.

How you’ll make an impact

As our team grows, we’re looking for a talented and experienced SDET/Quality Engineer that will be the lead for championing quality at Tickstar whilst also being our hands on automation, and test expert.

You’ll join a team of experienced backend- and frontend engineers and will help guide the quality engineering practices in the team, identifying and resolving challenges ensuring that processes and tools are optimised for their context, and the engineers have the required knowledge and skills.

What you’ll do

You are highly technical and can drive the quality vision of the team and participate at all levels of the test pyramid, writing tests at all levels. Define test strategies, setting up test frameworks and choosing tools that compliment the skill set of the team and the languages of the product they are building.

You’ll focus on helping to create sustainable, quality development processes, contribute towards automation, development whilst continually learning and sharing your knowledge with the team.

You’ll help drive the bug triage process and work closely with both the product and customer experience teams.

What you’ll bring with you

Experience working as a SDET/quality engineer, managing testing across the development team with highly structured testing processes and alignment to testing standards.

Significant practical expertise in test automation for all aspects of a modern tech stack; incl. web apps, APIs, etc.

Proven expertise in working with CI/CD technologies to automate the execution of tests in the path to production.

As our backends are built with Java we’ll need you to have experience from Java based test frameworks such as TestNG/RestAssured/JMeter or JUnit and we think it is a bonus if you know how to test React.js frontends (but not essential).