Test Automation Engineers

Peoplebank are currently recruiting for several Test Automation Engineers to work for our client in the Adelaide CBD (hybrid work set up).

For all these roles, Australian citizenship is mandatory, due the nature of the work involved, and you must be willing to obtain a Baseline security clearance.

We are looking for mid-level AND Senior Test Automation Engineers to join a large, long term program of work.

Duties

• Implement automation frameworks, ensuring usability, effectiveness, efficiency and maintainability are met. Frameworks must support backend and UI components, with a particular emphasis on Accessibility.
• Set standards for writing test code and automation coding principles to be used across the team.
• Drive in-Sprint delivery of automated tests meeting acceptance criteria and enabling the Definition of Done.
• Write tests and supporting automation code.
• Create manual scenarios.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of automation testing practices.

Additionally for the Senior role

• Evaluate and recommend Test Automation technology selection and strategy (including framework selection and coding language).
• Design and implement automation frameworks, ensuring usability, effectiveness, efficiency and maintainability are met. Frameworks must support backend and UI components, with a particular emphasis on Accessibility.
• Set standards for writing test code and automation coding principles to be used across the team.
• Oversee the continual improvement of automation testing practices.
• Manage risks and issues related to the provision of automated tests.
• Support the Test Manager to grow the team of automation testers and breadth of coverage.

Essential Criteria

• 5+ years' experience in a Test automation role.
• Experience building and executing automated test regimes as part of a DevOps team using CI/CD
• Expert "hands-on" technical proficiency with UI functional automation using tools such as Playwright, Selenium WebDriver and BDD frameworks like Cucumber and experience using continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, and building automation test pipelines.
• Solid skills on testing REST API using Postman and writing automation scripts for REST API tests.

Additionally for the Senior role

• 2 to 5+ years in a Senior Automation Test role.
• Expert "hands-on" technical proficiency in the principles and practical application of automationtesting, test frameworks, CI/CD, across a variety of tools.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience on testing Salesforce and MuleSoft based solutions.
• Passion for driving quality through testing and automation.
• Comfortable with new ways of thinking about accessibility and enthusiastic about accessible design and development will be highly regarded.

These are LONG TERM job opportunities where you can work on large, challenging projects that have a real beneficial impact on our society - so don't delay and APPLY NOW!