Senior Test Automation Engineer- Cloud & Data Platforms

INNOVATE IT AUSTRALIA; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services company in Sydney seeks a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer. The role focuses on designing and maintaining automation frameworks to ensure the functionality and performance of AWS data services. Candidates should possess strong skills in Python scripting, automated testing, and collaboration within a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in building robust automated testing frameworks.
• Proficient in Python scripting with extensive experience in Pytest.
• Ability to interpret complex test specifications and maintain test documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks for AWS services.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure quality outcomes.
• Conduct code reviews and provide detailed reports on test results.

Skills

Python scripting

Automation frameworks

Stakeholder management

SQL

Tools

Visual Code

Jira

Confluence

IntelliJ

GitLab

GitHub

NEXUS

Maven

Grafana

JMeter

Job description

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Mandatory Skills; Python scripting using Pytest; Automation frameworks to verify functionality and performance of AWS data services

Key purpose of the role

This role is responsible for in-depth and traceable automated test design, build automation framework, creation of automated test scripts, test execution, analysing test results and maintaining a defect register. As part of a cross-functional software delivery team, this role works closely with Testing team, Software Engineers, Business Analysts and Project Managers to achieve quality outcomes and ultimately contribute to ASX’s vision and strategy.

Your responsibilities

• You are a practitioner/team member of the Quality Engineering and Testing Capability Community of Practice (CoP).

• Responsible for test design, using own in-depth technical analysis of functional and non-functional specifications, requirements and solution architecture.

• Design, code, verify, amend and refactor test automation code and scripts.

• Ensure traceability records exist from tests back to requirements.

• Assist the Program Test Manager/Test Lead in test planning and specifying requirements for test environments, test data and tools.

• Contribute to the selection of the test automation approach for projects.

• Build and maintain the test automation framework.

• Apply agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.

• Participate in code reviews of own work and lead reviews of colleagues’ work.

• Responsible for interpreting and executing complex test scripts, analysing results and maintaining a defect register.

• Provide reports on progress, anomalies and risks & issues associated with the overall project or release. You’ll also report on system quality and collect metrics on tests and results.

• Support and implement the ASX Software Testing Policy and Guidelines within the context of the assigned work and tools used and create and maintain documentation relevant to this.

• Being an active member of, the QE&T Community of Practice (CoP).

Must have

• Proficiency in building test strategies, planning, test approaches, and methods, with the capability to develop robust automated testing frameworks

• Test design, using own in-depth technical analysis of functional and non-functional specifications, requirements and solution architecture

• Design, develop and maintain complex automation frameworks to verify functionality and performance of AWS services such as AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, Iceberg Tables, AWS Data Migration Service (DMS), Amazon S3, Redshift, and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)

• Worked in an environment with a structured test process, performing automated system and non-functional testing.

• Proficiency in Python scripting using pytest, pandas, boto3 etc. libraries

• Created and maintained automated test code and scripts, run automated tests and interpreted & reviewed results from automated test runs.

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.

• Provide reports on progress, anomalies and risks & issues associated with the overall project or release. You’ll also report on system quality and collect metrics on tests and results.

• Experience in using technologies such as Visual Code, Jira, Confluence, IntelliJ, GitLab, GitHub, NEXUS, Maven, Grafana, Putty, JMeter/Gatling for test automation purpose.

• Proficient with querying and analysing data including advanced SQL query authoring as well as data quality and data reconciliation processes.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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