As a Automation Test Engineer, you will be responsible for: 

• Design, develop, execute and maintain automation scripts enabling and advocating an automation first approach 

• Provide support and demonstrate flexibility to perform any type of testing as needed, including both automation and manual testing. 

• Provide senior level guidance and lead the execution of test and quality assurance on enterprise projects for various missions 

• Analyse requirements and follow testing standards and guidelines to define dynamic test plans (specifying scope, assumptions, tools and acceptance criteria) and test cases/scenarios (in line with standard Telstra technology delivery process), with support from more experienced team members as required.    

• Research, investigate, socialise and implement emerging technologies via internal innovation of our automation, quality engineering, performance and Devops communities 

• Mentor junior team members, providing support & reviewing code promoting a CI/CD culture 

• Stay Updated with the Testing Trends 

• Achieve a well-defined, functioning, and repeatable set of key business, program management and technology processes to ensure consistent quality is maintained 

• Testing on various browsers and mobile devices to ensure their configuration, operation, and capabilities work efficiently. 

• Develop automated test scripts and frameworks respective technology  

• Partner with Chapter Leads on monitoring performance of engineers in the team to identify opportunities for mentoring and skill development. 

• Provide expertise across testing and related tooling, libraries and frameworks across multiple development languages. 

• Model proactive problem solving, particularly to complex and/or novel issues and coach and support others in the team to do the same. 

• Be a role model for curiosity and continuous personal capability development for your team and broader engineering group, supporting others development through coaching and mentoring. 

• Have the right self-starter attitude and growth mindset to work as one team. 

• Managing production support and maintenance for applications in the production and pre-production environments keeping in a DevOps model 

• Review and integrate all application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements 

• Technology assessments and estimation of new features 

• Provide deep technical input into formal project management processes 

• Well versed with agile scrum process and agile ways of working in a software delivery team 

Key Skills 

Essential  

• 8+ Years of experience & well versed with Agile Ways of working (Scrum, SAFe)  

• 5+ Years of exposure to hands-on test automation using open-source tools such as Playwright, Typescript, Java, Java Script, Json, Selenium, RestAssured, Serenity, Cypress, Gauge, Cucumber  

• Problem solving attitude, with good troubleshooting and software debugging skills 

• Web and API Automation skills 

• Knowledge of DevOps, with exposure to Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) software practices 

• Strong programming or scripting skillset 

• Good communication and stakeholder management skills 

• Experience of testing digital applications 

• Growth/Learning mindset 

• Virtualization/Cloud 

• Good debugging & troubleshooting skill set.  

Desirable  

• Knowledgeable in OSS/BSS in Telecom domain 

• Accessibility testing, Security testing and SVT skills are added advantage 

• Mobile automation skills using Appium 

• Experience with design patterns, architecture, secure coding  

• Need to have a programmer mindset. Good knowledge of framework development & Reporting  

• Experience in automation (Selenium, Rest Assured, Javmaven, git, Jenkins/bamboo, Cucumber, TestNG, Karate), web & webservices automation.  

• Good debugging & troubleshooting skill set.  

• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous deployment.  

• Good to have exposure to AWS/Azure cloud services.  

• Good to have exposure to Infrastructure as code practice.