Melbourne-Engineer Level 1-Automation Engineering

NRI Holdings; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Planit, now a proud NRI company, is seeking an Automation Engineer to join our 900+ testing experts nationwide. You will design, develop and maintain automation scripts, advancing your skills while delivering real value to top-tier clients.

You will bring hands-on experience with modern web testing frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress) and API testing, plus a passion for quality and continuous improvement within DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Experience applying agile project practices to testing activities.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern test automation frameworks.
• Experience with API testing tools and BDD concepts.
• Ability to draft and socialise project artefacts and reports.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute and maintain automation scripts with an automation-first approach.
• Contribute to test strategies delivering ROI to clients.
• Research and adopt new technologies within automation, quality engineering and DevOps.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Web testing

Documentation

Collaboration

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress.io

Webdriver.io

Appium

Rest Assured

JMeter

Cucumber

SpecFlow

Job description

Planit are world leaders in application testing and quality engineering. We provide solutions that support organisations to deliver high quality systems, applications, and IT architecture.

Planit is now a proud NRI company and part of a global movement to deliver a sustainable and secure future through better Information Technology exchanges. Our team offer expert consultancy, bespoke services, tailored training and unique solutions to complex projects. Specialising in digital quality, Planit have a geographic footprint across many continents, with 1800+ permanent employees and have been recognised in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services.

Our values and ethos are focused on an intrinsic connection to our people, the awareness of our environment and our pursuit to be better than yesterday. We continue to lead the industry with unrivalled ideas, ability, and a quest to discern paradigms.

About the Role

This is an Automation Engineer role, where you will be part of our 900+ strong team of testing experts across the country. You will be given the tools you need to advance your skills and experience, while adding true value to your career and our top tier client base. You will bring your coding expertise, business skills and understanding of modern cloud infrastructure along with a desire to continuously improve.

Planit are world leaders in application testing and quality engineering. We provide solutions that support organisations to deliver high quality systems, applications, and IT architecture.

Planit is now a proud NRI company and part of a global movement to deliver a sustainable and secure future through better Information Technology exchanges. Our team offer expert consultancy, bespoke services, tailored training and unique solutions to complex projects. Specialising in digital quality, Planit have a geographic footprint across many continents, with 1800+ permanent employees and have been recognised in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services.

Our values and ethos are focused on an intrinsic connection to our people, the awareness of our environment and our pursuit to be better than yesterday. We continue to lead the industry with unrivalled ideas, ability, and a quest to discern paradigms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute and maintain automation scripts enabling and advocating an automation first approach
• Be part of team that creates tests strategies which provide ROI to clients
• Research, investigate, socialise and aid in the implementation of appropriate new and emerging technologies and approaches via internal innovation of our automation, quality engineering, performance and DevOps communities

Essential Skills and Experience

• Demonstrate effective application of various agile project activities and techniques such as stand-ups, iteration planning and execution, Kanban card walls and retrospectives.
• Great utilisation of test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright Cypress.io, Webdriver.io, Appium or similar.
• You may have good understanding of automated API testing using tools such as Rest Assured, Jmeter, Karate, SuperTest or similar.
• You may have good understanding of BDD concepts and experience with tools such as Cucumber, SpecFlow and JBehave.
• A passion for testing experience, particularly web front-end and back-end testing experience.
• Draft, distribute and socialise formal documents such as project reports, artefacts and knowledge base.
• You have good understanding of GIT and versioning

Desirable skills and experience

• Effective relationship management skills and proven ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships.
• You have a growth mindset and are passionate about continuous learning.
• Knowledge and/or experience in cloud computing platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP is highly desirable.
• Experience in the application and setup of Continuous Integration/Deployment process and tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Team City or CircleCI.