Senior Analyst, Engineer (Tester/Quality Engineer

Work type: Permanent Full time
Location: VIC- Melbourne CBD, VIC- Melbourne inner

We’re changing at NAB. Our goal is to build a world-class platform to fight financial crime to keep our community and customers safe from the bad guys. Our engineering teams are at the centre of this fight and we need the best minds to combat the ever-growing threat of organised crime.

• Lead, inspire and make a difference
• Collaborative & challenging fast paced culture
• We are 100% committed to working flexibly

Your new role awaits:
The Senior Analyst, Quality Engineer will be part of a specialist team/community working across all disciplines (Testing Framework Adoption and Enablement, Test Automation, Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Performance Engineering, Service Virtualisation & Monitoring and Quality Analytics), to enable and transform Quality practises within one or more of the Banks Technology Service Teams. This will require innovation by setting and owning the framework with new and existing tools, processes, practices and industrialising them into a regular delivery cycle supporting the team way of working.

The successful candidate will be required to have growth mindset and apply relevant specialist knowledge and experience to understand, influence and advise internal and/or external clients.

Your core responsibilities will include

• Driving continuous improvement in software quality including automated testing coverage operational and security controls (towards 100%)
• Setting quality standards, guidelines and expectations of all code outputs delivered by the service team(s)(from any engineer)
• Ensuring quality improvements and requirements needs are included in feature / story acceptance criteria
• Monitoring code quality automation supporting CI/CD pipeline in real-time
• Managing transition from outsourced manual and/or assisted testing to automated/real-time/continuous hands-off testing
• Be accountable for the delivery of quality solutions to both internal and external customers
• Managing dedicated testing work done by third parties (the amount of work, timing, output quality expectations etc) within broader vendor contracts and service expectations
• Effort estimates and actuals to deliver stories/features
• Design and enable the execution of an automation test framework e.g Cucumber for the service, ensuring traceability back to user stories
• Review all phases of unit, Business and other QA to ensure testing coverage with requirement traceability in collaboration with Service Team(s)

Your background & experience

Experience in sanctions screening and payments technologies is highly desirable
Demonstrated experience in a senior/autonomous role as a Tester/Quality Engineer
Experience in API testing
Experience in the use of Tools such as Selenium, Postman, Performance centre, Jmeter, gradle, Jenkins, github.
Must have Java experience
Familiar with Docker, MQ and Kafka
Cloud certification preferred
Experienced with automated testing as part of CI/CD, service availability and security posture integrity alignment with Continuous Delivery
In depth knowledge of Quality Engineering within Software Engineering for CI/CD code deployment into the Cloud (AWS or GCP required)
Experience in all forms of testing including system, functional, regression, progress, integration, performance and post implementation testing
Progression automation and adoptability to the framework uplifting the Service Teams delivery quality capability
Experience of testing end to end solutions/services in integrated and/complex environments
Ability to develop or enhance modify the Quality framework to support Service Teams delivery
Strong verbal communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills
Time bound testing skills and ability to meet specified deadlines
Drive for continuous improvement, new ways of working and collaborative culture

Make a difference through your work

At NAB, we work together to deliver exceptional outcomes that exceed our customers’ expectations. We’re an ASX listed organisation that has been serving Australian communities for more than 160 years. We’re investing in positive change and our work changes the future of banking. Our colleagues have an impact far beyond work, and you’ll be part of a team that is helping to solve some of society’s biggest challenges.

A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone.

At NAB, we’re intent on building a culture we can all be proud of. One based on trust and respect. An uplifting environment where every single one of us feels appreciated and empowered to be our true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

Join NAB

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know.

To be eligible to apply, you must have Australian or New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency status. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert.

Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.

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