QA Engineer: Release-Ready Testing with Full-Stack Growth

Compass Education; Hawthorn (PA); Hybrid; USD 64,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

PD budget

EAP access

Parental leave

Team events

Referral program

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Compass Education in Melbourne seeks a QA Engineer to own testing across the environment, giving engineers confidence to merge and sign off releases.

The role blends testing with feature delivery and offers a pathway into full stack development for the right person, with opportunities to grow engineering skills while ensuring release readiness.

You'll work with Playwright, Cypress, Postman, GraphQL, and CI/CD tools in a hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in manual testing with test management/automation tooling.
• Experience writing automated tests or willingness to learn quickly.
• Practical use of AI tools (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) to speed up testing.
• Ability to run end-to-end release testing with minimal guidance.
• Strong communication and ability to give clear feedback to engineers.
• Genuine interest in growing into full stack engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own manual testing for tickets in the test environment.
• Run final pre-release regression and sign-off testing across the platform.
• Write automated tests (UI, API) to reduce manual testing load over time.
• Use AI tools to accelerate test case design, data generation, and scripting.
• Flag risk areas and work closely with engineers early in the process.
• Tackle feature and bug tickets across the stack with engineers on delivery.

Skills

Manual testing

Test automation

AI-assisted testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Release testing

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Postman

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Gitlab CI

Job description

Compass Education in Melbourne seeks a QA Engineer to own testing across the environment, giving engineers confidence to merge and sign off releases.

The role blends testing with feature delivery and offers a pathway into full stack development for the right person, with opportunities to grow engineering skills while ensuring release readiness.

You'll work with Playwright, Cypress, Postman, GraphQL, and CI/CD tools in a hybrid setup.