Job Description
Talent Forge is recruiting on behalf of our client, a venture-backed Online Commerce start-up - for their first dedicated QA hire in Australia.
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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.
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The role:
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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.
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What you'll do:
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Take features from spec to sign-off, owning the quality bar throughout
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Build and maintain automated tests (API, integration, E2E UI) using Playwright or Cypress
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Lead hands-on manual and exploratory testing — especially around agent behaviour, where "right" isn't a easy assertion
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Validate integrations against sandboxes and contracts across a large connector ecosystem
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Test event-sourced and async flows (Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Temporal)
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Partner with the Senior AI Software Engineer to build eval harnesses for LLM-driven, non-deterministic behaviour
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Champion quality gates and flakiness standards in CI
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What you bring:
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Strong hands-on automation skills — TypeScript and/or Python, Playwright or Cypress, REST/API testing
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Sharp manual and exploratory testing instinctsA track record of true ownership — you can take a feature and drive it to done
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Comfort operating in a fast, ambiguous, early-stage environment
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Bonus: experience testing LLM/agentic systems or building eval frameworks, e-commerce/Shopify exposure, or experience with distributed/event-sourced systems
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Details:
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Location: Sydney — hybrid (Mon/Tue/Fri in the Surry Hills office, Wed/Thu WFH)
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Start: ASAP
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Reports to: CTO & Co-Founder
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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.

📌 Quality Assurance Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Talent Forge Group
📍 New South Wales