Senior Quality Engineer
Melbourne, AU / Sydney, AU
Technology – Engineering /
Hybrid
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
You’ll help maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Xero and support your team members in building products together. You’ll champion best practices and lead by example for other team members in quality practices. You’ll contribute to our cross functional environment by working towards the same objectives, using modern principles and practices. You’ll be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions to view, review, and improve the way Xero builds and maintains software.
What you'll do
- Create software – Guide technical design to ensure implementation of quality principles and good engineering practice. Identify the technical blockers and waste that slow down the team, or hinder quality. Work with engineering leadership and delivery teams to identify gaps in quality and testing strategies. Get involved in all areas of the team’s software development lifecycle, providing expert guidance during the various stages.
- Regression Suite Development & Maintenance: Lead the development and maintenance of a robust regression test suite. Your focus is on ensuring the reliability and safety of fast-paced, continuous releases.
- Automation & CI/CD Advocacy: Promote and drive the automation of delivery processes. Continuously assess and enhance deployment pipelines to ensure they are effective, efficient, and aligned with business needs.
- Coaching & Support: Mentor engineers across the team to build confidence and capability in quality practices.
- End-to-End Involvement: Engage in all stages of the delivery process—from initial story refinement to post-implementation verification and make sure that quality is considered throughout.
- Relationship Building: Foster a collaborative, positive culture by building strong relationships with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Your influence promotes shared ownership of quality and encourages a culture of continuous improvement.
- Champion Xero’s Quality Strategy: Actively contribute to and advocate for Xero’s quality standards and long-term vision and with quality embedded into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
What you'll bring
- Extensive knowledge of test automation technologies with a proven ability to lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust, scalable regression test suites.
- Expertise in building automated test frameworks from the ground up, following industry best practices and leveraging modern tools and methodologies.
- Strong experience in performance testing using industry-standard tools such as Apache JMeter, Locust, and other modern frameworks to assess application scalability, stability, and responsiveness under load.
- Thorough understanding of performance testing types including load, stress, spike, and endurance testing, with practical experience in simulating real-world traffic patterns to evaluate system behavior under various conditions.
- Experience in implementing API contract testing using tools to validate request/response formats, ensuring compatibility across services and preventing integration issues.
- Ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g GitHub Actions) to streamline code integration, automated testing, and deployment workflows.
- Expertise in configuring and using code analysis tools such as Sonar Qube for continuous inspection of code quality and enforcement of code quality standards.
- Skilled in creating and managing technical metrics and logging to monitor performance, track tests, and aid debugging.
- Able to set up mocks and stubs accurately to simulate dependencies and external systems tailored to project needs, thereby enabling isolated and reliable automated testing.
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family. Health insurance, life insurance, and income protection.
We offer wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value.
You’ll do the best work of your life at Xero!
