Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A QA engineering role responsible for building quality practices, automated testing frameworks, and end-to-end validation processes. The position involves collaborating throughout the development lifecycle and ensuring reliable software releases.
Highlights
Opportunity to establish a quality engineering function from the ground up, owning testing strategy, automation, and release quality in an innovative technology environment.
Description
QA Engineer — Founding AU Quality Seat
Sydney, Hybrid
$120-130k + Super + ESOP
Talent Forge is recruiting on behalf of our client, a venture-backed Online Commerce start-up - for their first dedicated QA hire in Australia.
This is a rare opportunity to build the quality function from the ground up — not join an existing playbook, but create your own vision and practise.
The role:
Our client's platform combines a wide integration surface with a non-deterministic core — agentic workflows operating across Shopify, Gorgias, Zendesk, WMS providers, carriers, and ERPs.
You'll own quality end-to-end: sit in on design, plan the testing, build the automation, run manual and exploratory work, and make the release call.
What you'll do:
Take features from spec to sign-off, owning the quality bar throughoutBuild and maintain automated tests (API, integration, E2E UI) using Playwright or CypressLead hands-on manual and exploratory testing — especially around agent behaviour, where "right" isn't a simple assertionValidate integrations against sandboxes and contracts across a large connector ecosystemTest event-sourced and async flows (Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Temporal)Partner with the Senior AI Software Engineer to build eval harnesses for LLM-driven, non-deterministic behaviourChampion quality gates and flakiness standards in CI
What you bring:
Strong hands-on automation skills — TypeScript and/or Python, Playwright or Cypress, REST/API testingSharp manual and exploratory testing instinctsA track record of true ownership — you can take a feature and drive it to doneComfort operating in a fast, ambiguous, early-stage environmentBonus: experience testing LLM/agentic systems or building eval frameworks, e-commerce/Shopify exposure, or experience with distributed/event-sourced systems
Details:
Location: Sydney — hybrid (Mon/Tue/Fri in the Surry Hills office, Wed/Thu WFH)Start: ASAPReports to: CTO & Co-Founder
This is a founding seat with real influence — you'll shape how the engineering team evaluates non-deterministic systems and set the quality bar as the company scales.
Interested? Apply now or reach out to Talent Forge for a confidential discussion.
