Principal Quality Engineer
Principal Quality Engineer
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15-03-2025
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Be Part of Our Next Chapter
For over almost 60 years our solutions have enabled impactful connections between some of the worlds leading brands and their customers. And while weve already done a lot of work were proud of were just getting started!
Coates Group has the values of a familyowned business and the innovative spirit of a startup both which fuel our purpose Creating Connections. Empowering Partnerships. Always Evolving. Through hard work dedication and creativity weve become industry leaders who have won awards and set records while remaining focused on continual growth and evolution. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.
We are curious charismatic authentic and we value and leverage the diversity of our crew. We are imaginers kindness enthusiasts experts creators thinkers challengers collaborators and overachievers. And together as a Crew we are revolutionizing the way the worlds leading brands leverage technology to drive the best customer experiences.
As a Principal Quality Engineer you will be at the forefront of transforming our testing culture processes and tooling. You will define implement and lead the adoption of test automation quality frameworks and best practices across our engineering teams. This is an opportunity to build and scale quality engineering from the ground up ensuring that our software meets the highest standards of reliability performance and security.
Role Responsibilities
- Own and drive the overall quality strategy Define the roadmap for test automation tooling and best practices across our engineering teams ensuring alignment with business goals and scalability.
- Champion a shiftleft approach to quality Integrate automated testing early in the development lifecycle ensuring that defects are caught before they reach production.
- Define and implement test strategies Establish comprehensive testing strategies aligned with the testing pyramid emphasizing unit tests as a foundation followed by integration tests and limited endtoend (E2E) tests. Ensure thorough coverage across regression performance security and exploratory testing to improve software reliability while maintaining efficiency.
- Mentor and upskill engineers Provide technical leadership and training on test automation frameworks best practices and modern testing methodologies to developers and QA engineers.
- Evaluate select and introduce new test automation tools Research and implement the most effective test automation frameworks for our React and TypeScript frontend API layer and infrastructure on AWS/Linux.
- Develop and maintain automated test suites Create robust UI API and performance tests using tools like Cypress Playwright Jest and Postman ensuring high test coverage while establishing best practices to ensure longterm maintainability of the test suite.
- Embed test automation into CI/CD pipelines Work closely with DevOps and Platform teams to integrate test automation into GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD or AWSbased pipelines enabling faster more reliable releases.
- Optimize test and scalability Ensure tests run efficiently in parallel reducing build times and improving developer feedback loops.
- Define and track key quality metrics Implement dashboards and reporting to measure test coverage defect trends flakiness rates and deployment stability using tools like Datadog Grafana or custom reporting frameworks.
- Contribute to root cause analysis and drive quality improvements Work with engineers to identify trends patterns and systemic issues helping to prevent recurring defects and improve system resilience.
- Collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams Partner with software engineers product managers SREs and DevOps to instill a culture of quality across the organization.
Role Requirements
- 10 years of experience in software testing and quality engineering with a strong focus on test automation.
- 5 years of handson experience with test automation frameworks for web APIs and cloudbased systems (Cypress Playwright Jest Postman etc..
- 3 years of experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments (AWS GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD or similar).
- Proven experience leading quality initiatives setting best practices automation frameworks and test strategies at an organizationwide level.
- Strong knowledge of modern software development methodologies (Agile DevOps ShiftLeft Testing).
- Experience working in Linuxbased environments (Ubuntu preferred) and testing software deployed on AWS.
- Experience working in fastpaced startups or scaleups is highly desirable.
- Strong handson experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and test automation for Reactbased web applications along with experience testing applications that interact with both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB DynamoDB) databases.
- Deep expertise in API testing (Postman RestAssured Pact for contract testing).
- Strong experience in performance load and security testing (e.g. JMeter k6 OWASP ZAP).
- Experience setting up test reporting monitoring and alerting (e.g. Datadog Grafana or custom dashboards).
- Familiarity with infrastructureascode (IaC) testing and cloudnative test strategies for AWS.
- Knowledge of IoT device testing would be a plus.
About Coates
We are industry leaders who have won awards and set records. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and we successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.
We are industry leaders who have won awards and set records. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and we successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.
We are led by a forwardthinking CEO who has demonstrated a true passion for people and making Coates a place where people genuinely enjoy working. Our growth plans enable a focus on providing rapid career advancement opportunities for our talent.
Together we are creators allowing us to make our purpose a reality to create immersive brand experiences for everyone.
Join a Crew that Cares
Be part of a global team of talented ambitious creative people that value integrity individuality and inclusivity. (Ask us about our Equality Empowerment Initiatives).
The benefits include an annual market competitive bonus program and our Thrive Program which includes a suite of flexible work options because were strong believers that you should never miss an important life or work moment. Thrive also provides dedicated time to prioritize our health and wellbeing (think virtual Yoga or meditation sessions) a Global Wellness paid day off to recharge as well as a Give Back Day to allow our Crew an opportunity to make an impact in the community.
Be inspired To Be More
We skip the red tape and aim to always stay nimble. Were proud of where weve been and are energized by where were going. We encourage ideas and perspectives because we know the more we have the better we are. We work hard but have fun along the way. We push the boundaries but keep it real and authentic. We believe in the values that got us here are the ones that will continue to lead us forward. We are excited by what weve accomplished but know the best is yet to come.
Coates Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color creed national or ethnic origin gender religion disability age political affiliation or belief disabled veteran veteran of the Vietnam Era or citizenship status (except in those special circumstances permitted or mandated by law).
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