About The Position
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Editing and Productivity’s mission is to build and scale a powerful, seamless editor that brings the Visual Suite together, enabling anyone—from students and teachers to creators and teams around the world—to create, collaborate, bring their ideas to life, and ship value with confidence and speed. As a part of the Design Experience supergroup, Productivity is the largest group with ~260 engineers (BE, FE, ML, Data, and QA) working with the Editing Experience, Editing Foundations, and Visual Suite teams.
Requirements
- Experience leading or mentoring QA engineers and guiding other team members with testing best practices
- Experience identifying opportunities for injecting quality, and advocating for process changes to improve product quality
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, you can drive a QA roadmap forward and proactively rally a team around it while driving alignment with stakeholders.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones, define clear outcomes and measures of success, and deliver on them through others.
- Experience with defining QA metrics, setting ambitious targets and driving actions to reach them
- Experience testing complex web and mobile apps (iOS and Android).
- Meticulous in your work and passionate about testing.
- Capable of leading by example - promoting Canva’s values, no-blame mentality, and engineering values
Nice To Haves
- Consider every possible scenario during exploratory testing and can spot bugs that others might not notice.
Responsibilities
- Coach, mentor, and strengthen a team of 7 QA engineers while developing your coaching capability to scale the team and meet the needs of the Editing and Productivity groups
- Work closely with the Product and Tech Leads to understand the product roadmap
- Drive the adoption of AI-powered approaches to evolve quality engineering practices, improving defect prevention, test intelligence, and overall product quality outcomes.
- Plan QA Support for all group projects
- Identify opportunities to improve quality in the groups, and set goals and drive actions for the Editing and Productivity groups QA team
- Guide and inspire QA Engineers to increase their impact by setting growth goals around automation, FE performance, AI, and visual testing skills
- Work closely with other QA leads to set and drive QA goals across the Design Experience supergroup and the QA Subspecialty
- Perform structured performance reviews, conduct regular 1:1s, and participate in the hiring process of new QA engineers
Benefits
- Equity packages — so you share in Canva's success
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
- Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and support you personally
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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