Job Specifications
Job Description
Sage is a global leader in accounting, payroll, and financial management solutions. We empower businesses with innovative cloud-based software, simplifying and automating financial processes so they can thrive in a digital world.
We’re looking for a QA Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team within Cloud Services Engineering & Operations. In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and resilience of our cloud-based accounting products, helping us deliver seamless, high-quality solutions to customers worldwide.
This is a hybrid role – three days per week in our Newcastle office.
Key Responsibilities What You’ll Do
Conduct performance, load, and stress testing to optimize system scalability and stability.
Collaborate with SREs, DevOps, and engineers to integrate QA best practices into CI/CD pipelines.
Develop, execute, and maintain automated test cases to ensure cloud software reliability.
Build and enhance test automation frameworks for cloud infrastructure and application reliability.
Support incident response efforts by diagnosing, documenting, and resolving production issues.
Drive resilience testing strategies, including chaos engineering, to strengthen system robustness.
Participate in Agile ceremonies, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure smooth product releases.
Mentor junior QA engineers in automation, cloud QA, and SRE methodologies.
What We’re Looking For:
Must-Have Skills:
Proficiency in UI test automation (e.g., Selenium).
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and test automation integration.
Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
Understanding of SRE principles, including reliability testing and fault tolerance.
Experience across the full testing lifecycle, from test planning to User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Nice-to-Have Skills:
Experience in performance and load testing for cloud-based applications.
Understanding of AWS cloud services and cloud infrastructure testing.
Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and scripting languages (Python, Java, JavaScript).
Experience with containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes).
Exposure to resilience testing tools (e.g., Chaos Monkey, Gremlin).
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
About the Company
At Sage, we knock down barriers with information, insights, and tools to help your business flow.
We provide businesses with software and services that are simple and easy to use, as we work with you to give you that feeling of confidence. Customers trust our Payroll, HR, and Finance software to make business flow with ease. From our local network of experts to our ever-growing partnerships, we are on hand to give you all the insights you need to thrive.
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