Quality Engineer (Automation & Testing)

About Safe Ag Systems:Safe Ag Systems is a global-facing AgTech Software as a Service company. Having recently passed our ten-year anniversary, we deliver a web and mobile platform that makes agricultural workplaces safer. Our engineering and product teams are distributed across multiple countries and work as one team.
About The Role:We are hiring someone that has experience in test automation, saw what good looks and now ready to lead the next stage of our quality maturity. You will own the testing platform, write automated testing, and make sure our customers gets the quality they deserve.
You are joining at a deliberate turning point. Testing already happens here - we have an established manual and test-management practice, and an emerging code-based end-to-end automation suite. What we do not yet have is one person who owns the direction, brings those threads together, and makes automation scale with our engineering output. That is this role, and it comes with real decision-making authority over what we automate, in what order, and how we measure it.
You will work closely with Product, Development and business stakeholders to improve release confidence, strengthen testing practice, and introduce automation that delivers measurable value rather than activity.
What You'll Do:Automation strategy and deliveryOwn the automation strategy end to end: assess the approaches we have today, recommend a single sustainable direction, and take it through to deliveryIdentify and prioritise the user workflows where automation removes the most risk, and automate those firstBuild and maintain automated regression suites across both modern single-page applications and long-lived legacy web applicationsDeliver in increments that pay off as they land, rather than a big-bang framework rebuildImprove coverage and - just as importantly - reliability. A flaky suite is worse than no suiteWork with developers to make the product itself more testable, and to integrate automated testing into how software is deliveredTest environments and continuous integrationPartner with Platform Engineering to establish reliable, repeatable environments and test data for automated runsIntegrate automated tests into pull request and release pipelines, so results reach developers while they can still act on themTreat environment and test-data problems as first-class quality work, not somebody else's blockerHands-on quality assuranceTest across web and mobile applications ahead of releaseDesign and execute test plans, test cases and exploratory testingValidate new features, enhancements and bug fixesInvestigate, reproduce and document customer-reported issues, and support root cause analysis on production incidentsAssess release readiness and communicate risk clearly - including when the answer is "not yet"Quality intelligenceDefine coverage and quality metrics that a non-technical stakeholder can act onReport progress against company-level quality objectives, which are visible to our executive teamBecome the person Product and Engineering ask before they ship
About You:You have experience in software testing and quality assuranceYou have successfully implemented or significantly expanded automated testing in a commercial software environmentYou are comfortable in an imperfect codebase - legacy alongside modern - and you improve testability rather than waiting for someone else toYou understand that automation is a tool for improving quality and scalability, not an objective in itselfYou take ownership of outcomes and focus on measurable resultsYou communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholdersYou enjoy investigating complex problems and finding the real causeYou balance pragmatism with quality and risk managementYou work well in a distributed, remote-first team
Required Experience:3+ years in a software testing, quality assurance or quality engineering roleDemonstrated experience implementing automated testing in a commercial software environmentExperience building and maintaining automated regression suites over time - maintenance is the hard partExperience testing complex web applications, including applications you cannot easily change or that were never built with test hooksAbility to write automation in a mainstream language (TypeScript / JavaScript, C#, Python or similar) and read application code well enough to diagnose a failureHands-on experience testing mobile applicationsExperience working closely with software development teamsStrong defect investigation and troubleshooting skillsAbility to drive quality initiatives independently, from concept through to deliveryExcellent written and verbal English - our engineering team is distributed and works in English
Highly Regarded:Playwright (our current end-to-end suite is Playwright and TypeScript), Cypress, Selenium or similar frameworksTypeScriptCI/CD pipeline work, particularly Azure DevOpsTesting legacy Microsoft web stacks (ASP.NET WebForms or MVC) alongside modern JavaScript single-page applicationsVue.jsMobile automation such as Appium - our mobile automation is still at planning stage, so this is an opportunity rather than a prerequisite.NET MAUI or Xamarin applicationsSQL, data validation and test data managementQuality metrics, reporting and governance frameworksTest management tooling (Zephyr, Xray or similar)SaaS products and cloud-hosted platforms, particularly Microsoft AzurePerformance, load or security testingJira
Interested in applying? Head to our Seek ad to learn more and apply!