Quality Assistance Engineer - International

Location: Team Engineering

Team: Country Beijing / China

About the Role

Join Canva's Engineering team as a Quality Assistance Engineer - International, based in Beijing/China with flexible onsite work options across any Tier 1 or 2 city in mainland China. Canva is the world's leading visual communication platform, empowering 220+ million monthly active users across 190+ countries to design without barriers through intuitive tools, vast templates, rich assets, and cutting-edge AI features. As a top-10 global unicorn, we're obsessed with product-driven growth in a vibrant, inclusive engineering culture that democratizes design for everyone, everywhere. In this role, you'll champion quality for our international growth experiments, ensuring user acquisition, engagement, and retention features deliver pixel-perfect reliability in our fast-paced, data-driven environment. You'll be the quality guardian for growth initiatives, crafting test strategies that shift QA left into development, analyzing results with data teams, and collaborating closely with developers, product managers, and analysts to squash bugs before they impact users. As the team's testing and product knowledge expert, you'll drive process innovations, advocate for smarter tooling, and foster knowledge sharing across Canva's global engineering squads. Your work directly powers our bold internationalization strategy, making Canva's magical design experience flawless for creators worldwide. At Canva, we thrive on creativity, collaboration, and crazy-big ambitions. You'll enjoy equity in our success, inclusive parental leave, wellbeing allowances, flexible options, and a culture that celebrates your unique contributions. If you're passionate about quality in innovative design products, ready to influence global growth, and excited to work in English with a world-class team, apply now to help empower the world to design!

Key Responsibilities

• Drive quality improvements across the growth team by collaborating with stakeholders on process, tooling, and testing enhancements
• Create comprehensive test strategies for team projects, emphasizing shift-left QA activities
• Monitor and analyze test results to identify issues early in the development cycle
• Collaborate with developers and product managers to debug and resolve quality issues swiftly
• Partner with data analysts to verify experiment results and ensure accurate data tracking
• Perform root cause analysis for experiment discrepancies and quality failures
• Serve as the subject matter expert for team testing methodologies and product knowledge
• Drive knowledge sharing, documentation, and training for software engineers and QA across teams
• Advocate for quality standards in growth-focused experiments and features
• Support Canva's internationalization strategy through high-quality user acquisition initiatives

Required Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in quality assurance or software testing
• Experience testing web applications, mobile apps (iOS and Android), and/or backend services
• Solid understanding of rich/complex UIs and working closely with engineering teams
• Experience defining QA processes for product teams and advocating for quality improvements
• Ability to coordinate tasks and self-prioritize based on business needs
• Proficiency in English reading and writing, with fluent speaking skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or software engineering
• Experience with Agile or Scrum methodologies
• Background in Software Engineering in Testing (SDET)
• Project management experience
• Located in Beijing or Wuhan

Required Skills

• Quality assurance and software testing expertise
• Web and mobile application testing (iOS/Android)
• Backend services testing
• Test strategy development and shift-left QA
• Test result analysis and debugging
• Data experiment verification and root cause analysis
• Stakeholder collaboration with developers and PMs
• Process definition and advocacy for quality improvements
• Self-prioritization and task coordination
• Fluent English communication (reading, writing, speaking)
• Understanding of complex UI/UX in design-focused products
• Knowledge sharing and documentation
• Agile/Scrum familiarity
• Data-driven decision making
• Fast-paced environment adaptability

Benefits

• Equity packages to share in Canva's success
• Inclusive parental leave policy for all parents and carers
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, and office setup
• Flexible leave options to recharge and support personal needs
• Flexible work locations in any Tier 1 or 2 city in mainland China
• Collaboration in a product-driven, engineer-centric culture
• Opportunities to work on global growth initiatives impacting 190+ countries
• Virtual interview process with focus on skills, passion, and cultural fit

Canva is an equal opportunity employer.