Automation Test Lead

  • Australia
  • Brisbane
  • Permanent
  • AU$150000 - AU$165000 per annum

Talent International is searching for an experienced Automation Test lead to join our client, a large financial institution. This is a permanent position based in Brisbane.

  • Automation Test Lead
  • Large Financial Institution
  • Fantastic Work Culture & Opportunities for Growth

About the Role:
As the Automation Test Lead you will responsible for defining and implementing an automation testing strategy to increase automation across Core Product & Workflow Platforms delivery teams. You will have a strong and diverse technical skill set with a passion for implementing innovative technical solutions that drive efficiency.

Responsibilities / Key Deliverables:
Technical Leadership

  • Develop and lead the rollout of technical improvements across delivery teams to promote the use of industry best patterns and practices
  • Actively contribute to build stronger technical communities of practise across the Core Product & Workflow Platform
  • Research, investigate, socialise and implement emerging technologies via internal innovation of our automation, quality engineering, and performance functions
  • Showcase improvement initiatives to the wider team to demonstrate value and gain by in from technical teams
  • Act as a subject matter expert and take a keen interest in staying across current and future trends to be able to provide guidance to the business and technology leadership team

Test Automation

  • Develop and implement a roadmap of technical improvement initiatives across testing frameworks
  • Collaborate with delivery teams to maintain and expand test automation frameworks across User Interface, API and Performance
  • Lead the peer review process within the testing team and mentor team members on development best practise
  • Collaborate with delivery teams to implement User Interface test automation across web and mobile apps
  • Design, develop and maintain API test automation scripts
  • Design, develop and maintain service virtualisation assets
  • Design, develop and maintain performance testing scripts

Continuous Integration Pipelines

  • Develop and maintain strategies, standards, guidelines, governance for Continuous Integration
  • Design and implement a roadmap of technical improvement initiatives to improve Continuous Integration across mobile and web application delivery processes
  • Collaborate with Development and DevOps teams to enhance mobile app build pipelines
  • Collaborate with delivery teams to help build end to end quality
  • Troubleshoot issues reported from pipeline execution
  • Mentor technical team members, providing support & reviewing code promoting a CI/CD culture

Skills & Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a complex software delivery environment implementing high levels of automation
  • Prior experience in the application and setup of CI/CD process and tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo or Team City
  • Strong experience in Selenium Webdriver with exposure to Java and JavaScript
  • Experience in API test automation and service virtualisation methodologies using tool like Parasoft
  • Experience designing and executing Performance testing for user interface and API using tools like JMeter
  • Strong knowledge of revision control systems, branching and merging, and general git knowledge
  • Knowledge of shell scripting including Powershell and Bash is highly regarded

How to Apply:
To find out more, please “Apply for this job” or contact Jackson Bruce on (07) 3031 3333 or jackson.bruce@talentinternational.com

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