Automation Test Analyst

We have an exciting opportunity for an Automation Test Analyst to join a global organisation based out in Macquarie Park on a for an initial 12 month Fixed Term Contract. You will be joining a team of 5 Test Analysts and will be doing a mixture of Automation and Manuel Testing.
You will be working closely with the IT Development and Operations Team as well as internal stakeholders on a daily basis.
The role will involve a mixture of working from home and in the office 2-3 days a week (as it stands currently).

Current Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the Quality Assurance and testing of new and existing applications across assigned BAU and other projects as follows

• Assist with creation and maintenance of effective automated testing scripts.

• Responsible for test completion end to end

• Involvement in creating and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts based on business Requirements, - Use cases and Functional Specifications in consultation.

• Contribute to various stages of testing – System Test, SIT, UAT, Regression, Performance, Post Verification Testing to provide quality assurance and testing of new and existing solutions

• Manage defect lifecycle – defect triage, retest and defect reporting using JIRA

• Review test plans for change requests made by IT and make recommendations to improve testing where necessary.

• Own and create traceability matrix and test cases using JIRA/Zephyr/Confluence

• Co-ordinate releases into the test environments with the development teams

• Actively seek to understand industry developments in testing products and approaches.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience with test automation using Selenium Webdriver, Java, Jenkins

• End to end life cycle experience – SIT, UAT, Regression, Post Verification Testing

• Solid experience with writing Test Plans, Test Cases, and Reporting

• Basic knowledge of Winium and Appium (desirable)

• Experience maintaining testing frameworks

• Experience with Performance, Load, Scalability and Stress testing of applications using JMeter.

• A basic understanding of Object-oriented Programming

• Experience in API testing (Hands on experience with JIRA, Confluence, Relevant experience in testing third party applications) 

• Good communication skills

• Graduate qualification or demonstrated equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science, Programming or related qualification.

• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations from across the business functions

Desirable Skills include:

• Prior experience or knowledge in testing Microsoft Office application add-ins for Word, PowerPoint

• Prior experience of Datawarehouse testing.

This is for an immediate start - please apply for more information.

For further information on this role or to confidentially apply, please contact Peter Thomson on 02 8227 9200 or apply directly via the Apply for this job button. Only WORD FORMAT resumes will be accepted.