Test Engineer

VirtusaPolaris - Virtusa Corporation; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology solutions provider in Australia is seeking a skilled professional with proficiency in scripting and experience in data preparation. The ideal candidate will excel in building automated performance test pipelines and have hands-on experience with multiple technologies. Strong communication skills and stakeholder engagement are essential. This role offers opportunities to implement AI-assisted automation for enhanced productivity.

Qualifications

• Proficient in scripting and capable of creating reusable code.
• Experience in handling data preparation across integrated systems.
• Skilled in building performance test pipelines and driving shift-left testing.
• Intermediate to advanced Git user.
• Hands-on experience with multiple technologies and integration points.

Skills

Scripting across multiple protocols

Data preparation and automation

Automated performance testing

Git usage

Building performance dashboards

SQL query writing

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Splunk

Chaos engineering tools

CI/CD platforms

Job description

Qualifications & Experience

• Proficient in scripting across multiple protocols; capable of creating reusable code and minimizing the maintenance of test scripts.
• Experienced in handling medium to complex data preparation across integrated systems, including data refresh, masking, and automation.
• Experience building and maintaining automated performance test pipelines across multiple CI/CD platforms and driving shift‑left testing.
• Intermediate to advanced Git user; familiar with branching, merging, and versioning strategies.
• Developed medium to complex stubs with custom logic mocking the integration, upstream, and downstream systems.
• Skilled in building performance dashboards, developing moderately complex Splunk queries, and utilizing distributed tracing for end‑to‑end visibility. Provides performance tuning and optimization recommendations, including capacity planning based on test results and system metrics, and collaborates closely with architects, technical leads, and infrastructure teams to define right‑sizing and scaling strategies.
• Hands‑on experience with applications involving multiple technologies and integration points.
• Exposure to listed platforms or similar; familiarity with deploying and testing on containerized and cloud‑native environments.
• Proficient in writing medium to complex SQL queries; ability to create stored procedures is a plus.
• Exposure to chaos engineering tools (e.g., Gremlin, Litmus, Chaos Mesh) to evaluate system reliability under failure conditions.
• Awareness of SRE principles including SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, and proactive performance monitoring; experience collaborating with SRE teams is a plus.
• Experience performing manual and automated deployments.
• Actively implements AI‑assisted automation to improve productivity and testing efficiency.
• Continuously learns and applies emerging technologies and methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills; experienced in creating detailed Test Summary Reports (TSRs) and conducting TSR review sessions with stakeholders to present insights and recommendations.