APS6 Automation Tester

Our Client
This government agency is a service provider, responsible for providing and funding a range of support services to thousands of individuals across Australia. With multiple locations across Melbourne, and nationwide, the organisation seeks only the most skilled and professional individuals to assist them in developing programs, policies and initiatives that will improve the quality of life for vulnerable Australians.

The Role
Our client is seeking to engage a APS6 level Automation Tester to join the team on a initial 12 month contract with a 12 month optional extension.
Position can be based from either Richmond or Geelong.

Responsibilities:

• Implement automation frameworks, ensuring usability, effectiveness, efficiency and maintainability are met. Frameworks must support backend and UI components, with a particular emphasis on Accessibility.
• Set standards for writing test code and automation coding principles to be used across the team.
• Drive in-Sprint delivery of automated tests meeting acceptance criteria and enabling the Definition of Done
• Write tests and supporting automation code.
• Create manual scenarios.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of automation testing practices.
• Support the Test Manager to grow the team of automation testers and breadth of coverage.

Skills and Experience

• Experience building and executing automated test regimes as part of a DevOps team using CI/CD methodologies.
• Expert “hands-on” technical proficiency with UI functional automation using tools such as Playwright, Selenium WebDriver and BDD frameworks like Cucumber and experience using continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, and building automation test pipelines.
• Solid skills on testing REST API using Postman and writing automation scripts for REST API tests.
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Engineering, Computing Science or Mathematics or another relevant technical field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a test automation role.
• Experience on testing Salesforce and MuleSoft based solutions.
• Passion for driving quality through testing and automation.
• Ability to communicate clearly.
• Analytical approach, attention to detail, and ability to work with a high degree of role autonomy and “can do” attitude.
• Comfortable with new ways of thinking about accessibility and enthusiastic about accessible design & development will be highly regarded.

It is a requirement of this position that the successful candidate must be an Australian Citizen, and either hold or be eligible to obtain a Baseline security clearance.

Applications
To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY.’ For further information, please contact Sam Beckett at Samuel.beckett@talentinternational.com