AddressAre you committed to bringing your best to life every day?
At MLC Life Insurance, we’re proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We’re Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world’s leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group.
We’re driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most – and that’s a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.
We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We’re a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.
The Role
Reporting into the Test Manager, the Senior Test Analyst role is a 6-month fixed term contract opportunity.
You will be responsible for supporting the end-to-end testing in the integrated environment and support any delivery of product backlog items across our backend systems within an agile delivery team.
Your specific role within your squad can vary to complement skills and capabilities of fellow team members as we collaborate and self-organise to deliver change and support. You will be responsible for test planning, preparation, and test execution, and managing testing activities to closure. You will also play a role in shaping the testing strategies, improving processes, leveraging the use of tools and contributing to the uplift of other members of the team.
As a Senior within the team, you will also be responsible for managing the priorities of the squad and coaching less experienced or any offshore team members.
About you
An experienced Tester with a minimum of 7+ years of experience, you possess knowledge and prior experience in automation testing.
You still play a hands-on role in your day-to-day role and possess strong knowledge of latest trends in testing, test automation, DevOps and continuously integrated environments. Your extensive experience enables you to have a holistic approach towards testing with knowledge in a range of testing techniques (e.g. exploratory, session-based, risk-based, equivalence portioning, etc.).
Preference would be given to candidates having experience in Cross Browser testing tools and knowledge on AWS eco system with a focus on:
• Networking
• AWS API Gateway
• Lambda
• Step Functions
• NoSQL including DynamoDB
Lastly, prior exposure in the financial services sector and/or insurance sector will be highly beneficial.
Other technical requirements include:
· Experience across a range of automation techniques (Web Application, UI, api, etc)
· An appreciation of how testing can add value to agile projects, and how we can adapt in the DevOps landscape
· Experience in emerging trends in testing, test automation frameworks, DevOps and continuously integrated environments
· Experience in creating test automation in a Cloud-enabled CI/CD environment and able to provide suites that can provide quick and consistent feedback , with a preference for AWS based tools like AWS CodeBuild and CodeDeploy.
· Expertise in automated testing tools; you understand the differences between test and checks and are aware of the advantages and disadvantages of automated tools.
· Good knowledge of programming languages ( ReactJS & Java) along with web based test frameworks (Selenium is preferred, Cypress is optional) and should have sound knowledge of building automation frameworks with BDD approach
· Successfully aided project delivery by the intelligent and innovative use of Automation techniques
· Good knowledge of the life insurance industry and associated technologies would be a bonus.
· Experience in assisting in investigations of incidents
· Experience working with Postman for API testing
· Experience working with Mulesoft
Bringing our best to life - why join us?
· We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.
· We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.
· We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.
· We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.
· We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.
· We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.
Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.
