Mobile Quality Assurance Engineer

Contract Full Time
Location: Various
Categories: IT/TechnologyAbout The ABCThe ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture, and stories. With over 4,000 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 50 locations around Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.About the RoleEnsure high quality software is delivered for the ABC's main web application platform, in line with ABC strategy and Product & Content Technology's objectives.Key Accountabilities

• Under broad direction of the Engineering Manager, develop and maintain complex native mobile automation frameworks for mobile applications.
• Develop a highly advanced understanding of systems requirements in order to inform the development and implementation of an automation strategy with appropriate script dependencies, assumptions and constraints.
• Contribute significantly to the product team's strategy and approach to automation testing, and actively promote and educate product teams on automation techniques.
• Analyse complex software systems and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to improve design, including governance measurement to ensure applications perform to specification.
• Collaborate with API developers to define and implement API schema validation and contract tests at a highly advanced level.
• Actively promote the ABC values and apply all relevant workplace policies and guidelines.
• Cooperate with any reasonable instruction, procedure or policy relating to safety and take reasonable care for your own safety and that of other people who may be affected by your conduct while at work. Additional WHS responsibilities apply to Managers and Supervisors, Team Directors, and other Officers.

About You

• Significant development experience in test automation, including developing very complex automation testing frameworks and testing tools is essential. Highly advanced knowledge of mobile testing frameworks such as Appium, XCTest and Expresso.
• Demonstrated experience developing automation tests for native mobile apps and restful APIs, as well as experience with automation test services, such as Browser Stack, Sauce Labs, or AWS Device Farm.
• Significant experience working with mobile apps and experience working with CI/CD tools in AWS.
• Demonstrated significant experience in testing responsive websites across multiple devices and platforms.
• Demonstrated development experience in multiple languages such as Pytest and JavaScript.
• Experience in tools such as Git and Jira.
• Experience to coach quality principles and strategies to the team to build quality in every phase of product development.
• Highly advanced problem solving and analytical skills with the ability analyse, diagnose, and help solve very complex technical problems.
• Highly advanced communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to convey very complex technical information to a range of stakeholders.

What's In It For You?Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department that values innovation at the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABC's digital future, where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australia's most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital, collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations, we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives.As a group of product and platform teams, we develop and maintain the ABC's audience facing digital products across mobile, connected TV, desktop, and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news, bringing some great TV on iview, streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website, or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app - the ABC's Digital Product offerings are some of Australia's most loved and most used platforms.Rich data underpins all of our audience facing products. This role will give you the opportunity to create and enhance our vision to adapt cutting edge Data Mesh concepts to get the most out of the data that ABC collects and manages.We are committed to career development and invest in our people to grow and become leaders in their fields. Everyone in the Digital Product department has a designated budget for training and development. We believe in flexible approaches to working and building self-organising and collaborative teams that offer friendly and supportive environments in which all team members can strive and grow. You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog:For further information on this position please contact Jamie Nedved, Digital Talent Acquisition Lead via emailIn line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.For more information on inclusive employee networks within the ABC please refer to on ABC LinkedIn.For more information on working at the ABC visitAdvertised: 13 Jun 2024 12:00 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 12 Jul 2024 5:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time