Quality Assurance Automation Engineer (Remote)

Working hours: Australian working hours (people in PH are expected to start working at 6 am)

Project Description:

My role of Test Engineer is accountable to plan, design and develop manual and automation test tools, methodologies, script & execute end to end automation and manual test cases, track results, and log defects.

Responsibilities:

• Creating test strategies, test plans, and test scripts for both automated and manual testing.

• Developing scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks.

• Contributing to implement repeatable automated tests during sprints to ensure quality, reduce test execution time, & incorporate automated tests into CI/CD processes.

• Planning the budget and labour needs of each sprint and product releases.

• Working in a dedicated squad team and helping to drive product quality.

• Ensuring all assigned testing deliverables timelines are met within the sprint and product release.

• Creating and communicating test reports for stakeholders such as the principal engineer, product owner, scrum master, & release management.

• Liaising with business users, business analysts and engineers to ensure that any assigned defects are resolved.

• Maintaining awareness of external environments and trends in testing, in order to contribute to the improvement of processes and assets.

• Promoting productivity through test automation tools, methodologies and best practices.

• Coaching and training other team members on manual and automated testing.

• Adapting new way of working, finding ways to continually improve, and actively participating in squad events.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Degree in Computer Science, Business, Economics or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years of software testing experience

• At least 3 years of automation testing experience.

• Experience in both manual and automated testing including planning, test case design, test reporting, defect tracking, estimating and test coverage.

• Experience working with external parties & vendors

• Demonstrated capability to learn and understand a business and its processes and systems in depth

• Experience with automated testing tool Playwright as well as other tools (e.g. Selenium, Java, Maven, & Postman)

• Demonstrated skills with REST and SOAP webservices, & API testing

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps Pipelines and parallel test execution

• Experience testing web, mobile and windows applications

• Ability to work across multiple products / platforms / squads

• Agile methodologies

• Regular use of a defect and test management system such as JIRA, Confluence & SharePoint

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Prior experience in outsourced employee benefits and administration service domain

Languages:

• English: C1 Advanced