Senior Engineer - QA (12-month fixed-term)
Australian Payments Plus, Australia
Job Description
The Game Changers:
At AP+ we're changing the game! We're doing big things, and we can't do it alone. We're part of a big ecosystem, and we know teamwork and passion for our purpose is what will make us successful. We value the unique talents, perspectives, of all our employees. This includes people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, First Nations Peoples, people of all abilities and diverse backgrounds, as well as their families.AP+ brings together Australia’s three domestic payment providers, BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia, into one integrated entity. Bringing these businesses together enables AP+ to create a more competitive and coordinated Australian payments organisation that is strategically placed to respond to the impacts of regulatory and technological change today, and into the future.
We’re Cowry, the digital experiences team within Australian Payments Plus. While you haven't heard of ‘Cowry’ you probably have heard of a little digital wallet with over 1.5M customers called Beem which is just one of the products powered by us.
The Purpose
We’re adding a Senior Engineer - QA to our already thriving team. As an Engineer, QA you’ll make meaningful contributions to the function and the team by driving the planning, design, building, and maintenance of test systems that are needed to ensure that we deliver the highest quality products for our B2B2C applications (from Platform, API’s, Android, iOS, and Web).
We want to adopt a continuous testing model and transform our CI/CD pipelines to include automated testing. Testing is a crucial part of our development process and we need someone who will be a part of this transformation to ensure that we meet the highest standards of quality.
As a member of the Quality Engineering chapter, you will be reporting to a Chapter Lead and will be part of a highly technical team of Quality Engineers supporting various product development teams. This structure will allow you to become a part of a cross functional and high performing team which provides plenty of opportunities for upskilling, flexibility, and growth in your career.
As the Senior Engineer - QA you will be responsible for:
- Build effective automation test scripts which will be executed as part of the CI/CD pipeline
- Perform different types of testing e.g system, end-to-end, regression, performance, security and penetration testing
- Identify testable events and develop the test cases/test scripts
- Execute some manual test cases on our backend platforms or using actual devices and/or emulators and create automation scripts if deemed fit
- Help improve Ways of Working of the product development team and be a driving force to ensure QA has a voice in all existing or new rituals
- Manage test environments, monitor test results and streamline release management to QA Environments
- Guide the team in end to end and system integration testing especially with third party integrations
- A focus on resiliency for some non-functional testing, in particular performance testing, load etc.
The skills amp; knowledge you need to have:
- At least 5 years’ experience in a Test Automation Engineer/Analyst role or equivalent.
- At least 2 years hands-on experience in Web and Mobile testing.
- At least 2 years’ experience or exposure to non-functional testing.
- Experience in building and using different testing frameworks and automation scripts (e.g. Cypress, Playwright, Jest, Appium, Selenium)
- Understanding of test design patterns (Page Object Model) and concepts such as Object-Oriented Programming
- Experience in using different cross-browser and cross-device testing tools (e.g. Browserstack, LambdaTest)
- Have previously used tools for version control, and continuous integration (e.g GIT, Bitrise)
What’s Next:
We know applying for a role can be a nerve-wracking experience, so we endeavor to review applications and plan to schedule screening interviews within the next two weeks. If you are among selected candidates, we’ll be in touch to schedule a phone interview. In any case, we will keep you posted on the status of your application.
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