About

• Whip Around was born in 2016, originally to help freight companies in New Zealand tackle their paper-based compliance burden. It was whilst working for some of the globe’s largest freight companies, that we saw first-hand how much time paper was costing fleet managers every day. Within a year, the US market was calling loudly as Whip Around met a clear pain point for businesses with fleets. Whip Around now services customers from coast to coast in the US and around the world.
• Team culture is at the heart of our success, with personal improvement being just as important as company outcomes. We now boast a senior leadership team with experience from numerous successful global businesses and continue to double down on our vision to bring simplicity and efficiency to fleet management and compliance.
• Our Values
• Each of us at Whip Around are committed to living and breathing our Values in everything we do. At Whip Around you will become part of a culture that’s committed to helping you become the best version of yourself. Whip Around is dedicated to our people!
• Be the Best You
• Be the Driver
• Always Bring Value
• Manaakitanga
• Why this role is important to us
• As an Intermediate QA Engineer at Whip Around your focus will be to create world-class solutions for our customers! Whip Around is quickly becoming the software platform of choice for business owners, fleet managers and drivers with dedication to workplace safety. Through a mixture of new features and improvements you will work with a team to deliver key solutions to our customers.
• What success will look like
• Liaise with product teams and the engineers to understand and communicate the scope of testing required to meet the needs of the project or desired business capabilities.
• Understand the system architecture, release and environment management, and contribute towards quality initiatives and overall process improvements.
• Test and write automation scripts using Cypress and Postman for our integrations as well as product features.
• Understand general concepts and fix issues that are applicable to our test automation framework.
• Collaborate with QA Lead and other engineers in the team.
• Build mastery in core technical tools.
• Understanding the concept of technical debt and its impacts to the system and why its important to pay down.
• Familiarity with common design patterns and their uses
• A familiarity with code metrics and static code analysis
• Accurately recording and managing defects and enhancements (JIRA).
• Peer review and testing of test cases, automated scripts and other work produced by other Test Engineers.
• Build strong relationships with our Engineers and cultivating a culture built around shared ownership of quality.
• Critical Competencies
• Excellent communication skills with a strong testing mindset.
• A strong communicator - we don’t expect you to know everything but listening to others and voicing your thoughts and ideas is key!
• Energy, drive and enthusiasm for excellent results.
• A genuine desire to be engaged and motivated by what Whip Around is all about!
• Strong time management and organisational skills.
• Attention to detail
• A positive, can-do attitude with a willingness to learn.
• Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find solutions and out-of-the-box ideas
• Experience
• 2-4 years but not relevant for the right candidate with the right attitude.
• Advanced testing or Agile certifications eg. BBST, ISTQB, CSM, CAST
• Knowledge of distributed source control systems such as Github and the ability to understand at a high level what changes have been made in MR.
• Database SQL experience.
• Knowledge of cloud based software products and how they use APIs, browsers and mobile apps.
• Good practical experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Strong testing experience with Postman is a must.
• Experience in building and maintaining automation testing frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Jest, Jasmine, NUnit, xUnit, and JUnit. Cypress is preferred.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Previous Saas experience would be an advantage.
• Hybrid working & core hours with flexibility outside of core hours - we understand you have a life and family outside of work and we support that!
• Free parking
• Birthday leave - goes without saying, no one wants to work on their birthday!
• Monthly team lunches
• Twelve weeks additional paid parental leave
• Regular Team events and activities