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Form of workAbout the ABC
The 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 Role
Ensure high quality software is delivered for the ABC’s main web application platform, in line with ABC strategy and the Product & Content team’s Technology objectives.
Key accountabilities
- Under broad direction of the Senior QA Engineer and Engineering Manager, develop and maintain very complex automation frameworks for web-based and content management systems.
- 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 very complex software systems and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to improve design, including governance measurement to ensure applications perform to specification.
- Keep up to date with relevant industry developments and develop a highly advanced understanding of system functionality, system requirements and overlying business strategy.
About You
- Demonstrated substantial experience testing APIs, web applications and/or content management systems, particularly in a large-scale Java-based environment.
- Experience in test frameworks such as Playwright, Robot framework and Jest is desirable.
- Substantial development experience in test automation, including developing very complex automation testing frameworks and testing tools is essential.
- Demonstrated substantial development experience in at least one language such as JavaScript and Python.
- Substantial experience working with web apps, mobile apps and Restful and GraphQL APIs as well as experience working with CI/CD tools in AWS.
- Demonstrated substantial experience in testing responsive websites across multiple devices and platforms.
- 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.
For further information on this position please contact Jamie Nedved, Digital Talent Acquisition Lead via email ************@abc.net.au
We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.
In 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 Life Page on ABC LinkedIn.
For more information on working at the ABC visit abc.net.au/careers
