Software Tester

We want you to do the best work of your life and everyone in our team is empowered to do this. We also believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key for building the best product for our end users. Everyone's voice matters. It's how we pioneer and dare to push a little bit further. Our diversity of perspective is what differentiates us and what we care about is that you are able to produce excellent work and collaborate well.

We’re looking for a motivated mid-level tester to lead our testing and ensure the quality of all products released on our iOS, Android and web apps. You will work within our agile Engineering and Product team as a permanent team member.

Benefits

Perks of working for Perx

• Remote-friendly, parent-friendly & support for flexible working arrangements.
• Work from home anywhere in Australia or from our co-working space in Sydney CBD if Sydney-based
• As an early member of our Product and Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to take the lead on testing and help optimize current processes.
• Perx is a small company, so you will work closely with our founders and other important stakeholders like our Sales and Customer Service teams
• We work remotely but stay connected on Slack, and have regular Google Meet catch ups including eDrinks and/or eCoffee every 2nd Friday
• A small engineering and product team means everyone works closely together and learns from each other
• Awesome company-wide retreats every year
• Your own professional development budget for education courses, attending conferences and or buying books

But, the real benefit is that at Perx Health, you'll get to do challenging, impactful work with smart and dedicated teammates.

Tasks & responsibilities

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Attending the Engineering and Product team agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives
• Performing manual testing on iOS, Android and web apps within the 2-week sprint cycles and regression testing where needed
• Raising bug tickets in JIRA and retesting before release.
• Working closely with the Perx Product Manager to learn more about upcoming new products and test as they are developed.
• Writing new test scripts to add to future regression cycles and update existing test scripts as required.
• Updating test scripts in test automation tools
• Ensuring our mobile and web apps are constantly improving and that our users get the best possible experience.

Within 1 month, you will:

• Understand the products and services available on our iOS and Android apps
• Be familiar with our web apps
• Meet the entire company and learn the nuts and bolts of our business, and where we’re going.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Feel confident running regression testing cycles on our iOS and Android apps
• Understand the different features on our web apps
• Be familiar enough with our full product suite to update existing test cases and ensure we have proper coverage of key features
• Understand the Perx product development process from backlog prioritisation to sprint planning and sprint delivery

Within 6 months, you will:

• Be confidently working with engineers to troubleshoot issues and fix them as you identify them
• Be giving feedback to Perx Product team on product pain points and usability issues you’ve come across during testing
• Be making recommendations on how to improve testing and quality assurance processes and methodologies at Perx

Qualifications & experience

About you

Experience required:

• At least 2 year testing experience with iOS and Android apps
• Experience with JIRA for creating and tracking bugs as well as tickets in active sprints
• Experience with Zephyr for writing, updating and executing test scripts / test cases (or similar)

Desirable:

• Have worked in an agile software development environment
• Experience with Reflect for automated web testing (or similar)
• Experience with (or an interest in learning) test automation so we can look at how to become more efficient with a small team as our business grows and our product suite expands

Ideally, you:

• Believe you have the confidence and aptitude to be the test lead and own the testing and quality assurance processes at Perx with the support of Product and Engineering teams with opportunities to learn and grow in the role
• Are happy to be a test team of one (for now)
• Are a natural born troubleshooter when it comes to technology and software
• Will advocate for our users and champion the cause for great quality products and services
• Are happy to be part of a team working remotely - most of our team is in Sydney but we also have team members working across different countries and time-zones!
• Thrive in a start-up environment where products are constantly evolving and growing at a very fast pace