About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Find out more about us at www.accenture.com.

What you’ll do 

The DevOps Test Engineer will be instrumental in ensuring the quality and reliability of software products throughout the continuous integration and delivery pipelines. This role involves designing, implementing, and executing automated test suites, integrating them seamlessly into CI/CD processes, and collaborating closely with development and operations teams to identify and address quality issues early in the software development lifecycle.

Due to the secure nature of this role, Australian citizens with a security clearance will be preferred for this role.

Key responsibilities

• Integrated Plan Creation: Develop an integrated plan for the project, including a detailed test plan.
• End-to-End Testing: Conduct comprehensive end-to-end tests to demonstrate the core functionalities of the Automation Tooling and Integrations.
• User Acceptance Testing: Participate in User Acceptance Testing, ensuring the solutions meet user requirements and expectations.

Here’s what you need

• Proficiency in test automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, JUnit, or Cypress to develop and maintain automated test scripts for functional, regression, and integration testing, ensuring thorough test coverage and early detection of defects
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code, to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and promote a culture of quality throughout the software development process
• Experience in building and maintaining test environments and infrastructure using configuration management tools like Ansible t, ensuring consistency and repeatability across testing environments and deployments
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, or Bash to automate testing tasks, manipulate test data, and perform environment setup and teardown as part of automated test execution

• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, DevOps engineers, and QA analysts to define testing requirements, develop test strategies, and prioritize testing efforts based on business priorities and risk factors
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot complex issues, triage defects, and work proactively to prevent recurrence through process improvements and automation enhancements

Bonus points if with

• Familiarity with performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling to conduct load testing, stress testing, and scalability testing of software applications, identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing system performance
• Understanding of security testing principles and tools, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, and penetration testing, to assess the security posture of applications and infrastructure and mitigate vulnerabilities effectively

Benefits of working at Accenture:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities.
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

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All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

To ensure our workplace is inclusive and diverse we are setting bold goals and taking comprehensive action. To achieve these goals, we collect information that allows us to track the effectiveness of our Inclusion and Diversity programs. Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com 

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, we recognize that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

To ensure our workplace is inclusive and diverse we are setting bold goals and taking comprehensive action. To achieve these goals, we collect information that allows us to track the effectiveness of our Inclusion and Diversity programs. Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement.