Staff Quality Engineer

• You are a determined team leader that loves to build quality code while leading test automation capabilities across the Group.
• We are one of the largest and most advanced payments technology teams in the country.
• Together we can build state-of-the-art API solutions that power seamless experiences for millions of customers.

Do work that matters

Our vision for Quality Engineering and Testing is "Confidence engineered into every product". To achieve this, we're transforming to a continuous testing model and uplifting the full product lifecycle, supporting capabilities, people, and technology.

As a Staff Quality Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in this transformation. You'll set the path and lead a major uplift in the technical, process, and people capabilities that allow teams to take quality to the next level.

You will bring your expertise in quality assurance, test automation, risk management, solving business problems, optimise systems, and contribute to strategic test automation initiatives to evolve testing automation practices and tools. You will create and maintain front and back-end automation frameworks to ensure quality and reliability of our systems. You will be embedded in a cross functional team that is self-managing with end-to-end responsibility for designing, delivering, and optimising a broad range of customer-focused outcome.

See yourself in our team

This role will be part of the Groups Payments Quality Engineering and Testing Chapter, which is part of CBA's wider Real Time Payments Practice.

The Payments Engineering team resides in the Payments Service Utility and its purpose is to restore the trust of our customers by transforming the payments services experiences provided by the Bank to 99.999% availability, greater agility and reliability.

We're interested in hearing from people who:

• Have strong coaching and influencing skills and can use these to help large-scale teams make big shifts in quality.
• Have led the design and implementation of holistic quality strategies for complex software systems.
• Designed and maintained test automation frameworks and its integration with various test management, and defect management tools.
• Can identify and drive product design and engineering decisions that innately support quality.
• Can build robust test doubles to minimise dependencies.
• Understand and can demonstrate how and when to apply various software, DevOps and Quality Engineering methods.
• Have experience engineering and validating solutions with substantial requirements around performance, resilience, security and so on.
• Deeply understand testing types and strategies, and their application.
• Can find ways to build quality into the delivery process in challenging scenarios such as COTS software.
• Make use of feedback loops such as logs, dashboards, build stats etc to observe for quality and take actions to improve outcomes.

Tech skills

• DevOps best practices, CI/CD tooling - Github, Teamcity, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Monitoring and logging tools - Splunk, AppDynamics, Cloud Watch Canary.
• Kotlin will be a plus but not mandatory!
• Strong full stack, software coding in Java, TypeScript, APIs.
• Cloud platforms and their native capabilities.
• Experience with a wide range of system architectures (eg microservices, web applications, APIs, event driven, mobile applications, integration platforms and so on).
• Experience developing and rolling out developer-friendly harnesses, frameworks, test doubles, dashboards, tools, and infrastructure to enable teams to build quality into their products.
• Experience working across Mockoon for Rest API Mock services highly regarded.
• Understanding on cloud -scale load testing e.g Artillery for NFT highly regarded but not essential.
• Maintain, curate and monitor non-production environments.
• Directly influence product design, implementation, and enhancement to support testability and quality.
• Experience integrating tests and other quality measures into CI/CD pipelines.
• Create patterns for well-engineered, scalable and reliable tests.
• Experience engineering capabilities to source and manage test data in a safe and secure way.

Are you someone who deeply understands how quality software is conceived and evolved? Or passionate about making jobs simpler and more rewarding? You love to mentor, advocate, and enable teams to produce their best work. If this sounds like you, we think you'd be a great fit here.

If this sounds like you, please apply today and start your career at Australia's leading financial institutions.

Working with us:

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we're driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. One where we're driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

Here, you'll thrive. You'll be supported when faced with challenges, and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

We're determined to make a real difference for Australia's first peoples. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.