Senior Automation Tester

Talent International is seeking an experienced Automation Test Analyst (QA Engineer) to join a global leader in manufacturing and supply of construction and mining equipment. This role is based in the Brisbane CBD on a 6-month contract, with likely extensions and possibility to go permanent.

• Act as quality assurance subject matter expert within Consite Mine Plus PoV team.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, data engineers and scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to define and maintain quality standards.
• Design and implement test strategies, test plans, and test cases for new and existing features.
• Conduct appropriate quality assurance tests to ensure quality of features delivered to end-users meet expectations.
• Drive automation initiatives to support continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Participate in sprint planning, design reviews, and code reviews to ensure quality is considered throughout development lifecycle.
• Conduct root cause analysis of defects and work closely with engineering teams to resolve issues.
• Promote quality-first mindset and lead adoption of QA best practices across team.
• Monitor, track, and report on software quality metrics.

• Comprehensive test plans and test cases covering functional, integration, regression, and performance scenarios, and their execution.
• Automated test scripts and frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Defect reports and quality dashboards with clear, actionable insights.
• Documented quality standards and testing guidelines for Consite Mine Plus platform.
• Sign-off reports for releases indicating readiness and QA validation status for CAB approval purposes.
• Continuous improvements to QA processes and tooling based on retrospectives and feedback.
• Risk assessments and mitigation plans related to product quality.

• Hands-on experience in quality assurance for data platforms, analytics applications, or enterprise software across both functional as well as non-functional scenarios.
• Strong understanding of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes across SDLC.
• Experience designing and executing test strategies for both frontend and backend components of analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with testing analytics dashboards and visualizations ensuring data accuracy and usability.
• Exposure to end-to-end testing application components hosted in cloud environments, particularly AWS.
• Competence in writing clear, reusable test cases and documenting test results in tools like Azure DevOps, Atlassian JIRA, etc.
• Understanding of automated testing principles and experience contributing to automation frameworks or pipelines.
• Experience in carrying out load and performance tests to validate platform performance.
• Ability to identify data quality issues and collaborate with developers and data engineers to resolve them.
• Experience working in Agile teams with active participation in sprint and QA planning and reviews.
• Prior experience in working with Grafana ecosystem of tools e.g. Grafana, K6 testing tool, and Snowflake is a plus.
• Working knowledge of data validation techniques as well as experience in validating data consistency, transformation logic, and end-to-end data workflows would also be a plus.

• Opportunity to work with a global leader in the construction and mining equipment industry.
• Professional growth and development opportunities in a fast-paced Agile environment.
• Chance to work with cutting-edge technology and contribute to the development of innovative solutions.

• Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science, or equivalent qualification.

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