Lead 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 succeed 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.

**What’s the role**

We are looking for a talented Lead Quality Engineer to join our Platform Technology team, based in Wellington, Auckland or Melbourne. The Enterprise Tech group works across the business to support people and methods, and improve our technology and strategic capability. The team you will be joining specifically works with the
**Salesforce** platform, with a particular focus on sales cloud and analytics.

You’ll work in collaboration with other Xeros to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster. You’ll model the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, supporting your team to grow their technical capability and improve development practices. You will also contribute to the technical direction of the product group, helping grow our cross functional environment by identifying technical gaps, promoting capability growth, and championing & demonstrating modern principles and practices. You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to simplify.

**What you'll do**:

- Contribute to multiple types of testing (including functional, integration & UX) testing over multiple layers of the system
- Help build up and maintain our regression suite to ensure we can release quickly and safely
- Coach other members of the team as they continue to upskill in automation
- Be involved in all stages of the delivery process from refinement to post implementation verification
- Positively grow, build and nurture strong positive relationships with the team and stakeholders.
- Create and contribute to a fun, positive working environment, living Xero’s values daily, with a focus on customer service and delivery both within the immediate and wider Enterprise Technology Team.

**What you'll bring**:

- Test automation experience particularly using C#, Selenium and Git
- Be a quality champion - share your knowledge, lead and coach others in analysis, testing and quality practices so your team is effective at building quality in early
- Be an active contributor, working alongside the wider QA team, developers, product owners and stakeholders to deliver tested and reliable software
- You’ll be a self motivated, quick starter - able to grasp projects and existing functionalities quickly and identify work independently
- Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities with a keen attention to detail.
- Excellent oral, written, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
- You’ll have a pragmatic approach, as well as strong analysis and quality facilitation skills

**Nice to haves**:

- Salesforce CRM and analytics experience
- Additional technical testing experience with following tools: Playwright, Dockers, Kubernetes, TeamCity and Postman

**Remote working**

Xero is continuing to grow and so are the opportunities to join us
- You can choose to perform this role:

- In one of our #beautiful offices (Auckland, Wellington or Melbourne)
- Flexibly, through a hybrid of in office and remote working styles
- Permanently Remote

**Why you should become a Xero**

It’s a diverse and inclusive environment, with people who will respect, challenge, support and mentor you to do the best work of your life. We’re a place where innovation and change are not only encouraged but also celebrated. We value our people and want them to enjoy and take pride in their work.

We’re very supportive of flexible working arrangements and offer a competitive remuneration package including shares and life insurance, in addition to your base salary. We have a culture we’re proud of. Whether you're after a workplace with a social vibe, or a workplace which understands your family is priority - Xero is all of that and more.
- Xero is a Rainbow Tick certified employer._
- Xero strongly encourages employees and contractors to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to work from a Xero office, or engage in any face-to-face Xero business._