QA Engineer

Moodle with us!

We're the world's most popular learning platform and we’re on a mission to empower educators to improve our world.

We're excited to invite a QA Engineer to join us in making a meaningful contribution to Moodle's future growth! As part of the Architecture & Engineering team, you'll collaborate closely with the technical architects and other developers across product teams, to tackle a variety of tasks.

As a key QA Engineer, you will be responsible for enhancing the quality of Moodle product releases. This involves improving manual and automated test suites, reviewing and refining testing processes, and optimising the test infrastructure. You will work closely with product teams to improve automated tests, automate manual tests, and contribute to the development of tests for new features. You will also stay informed about best practices in software testing to continuously enhance Moodle’s test processes.

What your new job can look like…

At Moodle, no two days will ever be the same, but most days in this role usually involve a mix of:

• Maintaining and improving CI pipelines and infrastructure, including extending support to additional Moodle products.
• Monitoring and analysing CI builds, identifying failures, and collaborating with teams to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Automating repetitive manual QA tasks and improving existing automation workflows.
• Developing and maintaining performance testing frameworks for Moodle at scale.
• Improving the quality, coverage, and performance of automated tests (including Behat and PHPUnit).
• Reviewing test-related code changes and contributing to peer code reviews.
• Identifying QA improvement opportunities and documenting them in Jira, including automation candidates within major release cycles.
• Assisting with manual QA testing when needed, particularly for complex or high-risk scenarios.
• Engaging with the Moodle and developer communities to promote quality best practices.
• Applying agile practices and building strong working relationships with teammates and stakeholders.

Requirements

We’d love to hear from you, especially if you can talk to us about your:

• Experience working within a large-scale test driven development environment with a complex CI workflow including test automation runs.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux environments, including command-line usage, process management, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with and knowledge of Behaviour Driven Development Testing (BDD) and Gherkin.
• Knowledge of Shell Script, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript & Ajax
• Experience working with Git, including creating pull requests and collaborating via code review.
• Experience with Selenium, Chromedriver, and/or Geckodriver
• Experience with CI systems like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI or Travis.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if you have/are:

• (Any) previous experience working with Moodle LMS or similar large PHP-based platforms.
• Understanding of performance testing concepts and tools.
• Understanding of container technologies (e.g. Docker) and familiarity with Kubernetes or cloud-native CI environments.
• Experience writing and maintaining automation tooling and shell scripts, with hands-on experience using Behat as a BDD testing tool.
• Experience using AI Tools to accelerate automation and pipeline development/maintenance

Benefits

What life at Moodle is like…

Moodle has a globally diverse team with over 280 team members in more than 25 countries around the world. We’ve built a passionate team of hard-working, driven and diverse people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education (yes, these are our company values!)

What else, you say?

• Our team promotes a flexible working environment that promotes true work life balance
• We believe in motivating performance rather than micromanaging it, allowing you to feel empowered to do what you do best
• Gaining new skills by learning from highly skilled peers, along with your own learning and development allowance each year to support your growth
• Work with a global team on a worldwide platform and make a real difference
• As a certified B Corp, we are proud to be part of a global community of mission-driven companies dedicated to using business as a force for good
• Other excellent benefits, like access to our Employee Share Purchase plan, casual and earned leaves to recharge yourself, also volunteer and enjoy a day off for your birthday!, or choose your own optional holiday and many more!

Learn more about your new workplace...

Moodle is the world’s most trusted online learning solution, with a growing ecosystem of products and services, including Moodle Workplace, Moodle App, MoodleCloud, and more. The engine of our ecosystem is Moodle LMS, the secure and customisable open source learning management platform used by well over 300 million learners worldwide. 

Find out more about us on our website.

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At Moodle we are an equal opportunity employer that actively supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to fair recruitment and selection practices, ensuring we are drawing from a diverse range of sources to attract and select the very best person for the job. Learn more in our Diversity & Inclusion Charter.