Quality Assurance Lead

**How will I help?
As a Test Automation Lead, you will be responsible for all test automation deliverables. Your role will encompass comprehensive automation planning, scoping, designing, executing and ensuring the quality delivery of the platform within the company.

The Test Automation Lead is part of the BT Panorama with in Westpac Group. The core responsibilities of the role will include (but not limited to):

- Be responsible for all test automation deliverables includes progression, regression and upliftment for the program.
- Leading and mentoring a team of test automation engineers (vendors and perms), providing guidance, training, and support to ensure the highest level of performance and productivity.
- Establishing and maintaining communication with all stakeholders internal and external.
- Set up and maintain the test automation reporting and dashboards that can be used for reporting and to analyse to identify patterns, design metrics, execution metrics, failure metrics, productivity and opportunities for continuous improvements.
- Conducting continuous reviews and assessments of automation artifacts and scripts to ensure relevance, quality, reliability, and maintainability.Be responsible to continuously make the improvements on the test automation.

**What do I need?
To be successful in this role, we are looking for a highly motivated and driven individual with:

- Minimum of 10 years of experience within the Quality Assurance, with at least 5 years of experience as Test automation lead.
- Extensive experience and high proficiency in test automation using JavaScript and TypeScript languages with proven successful delivery of test automation frameworks, scripts and tools.
- In-depth experience delivering, developing and executing test automation solutions in Web based testing and API testing using tools like Playwright, Protractor, Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber (BDD), REST API, Postman.
- In-depth experience delivering, developing and executing test automation solutions in REST API testing using tools like Playwright, Cypress, Rest Assured, Postman.
- Hands-on experience in Playwright using TypeScript is highly desirable.
- Experience in designing, developing and executing the SQL, PL/SQL scripts.
- In-depth experience in build package tools like Node JS and source control management tools like Bitbucket, GitHub.
- In-depth experience in continuous integration tools like Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing test automation frameworks for large-scale software projects.
- Experience in working with defect and test management tools such as JIRA, XRAY, etc.
- Experience writing automation strategies, test plans, test scenarios and test cases.
- Proven experience in leading the test automation team with proven deliverables in the projects.
- Experience in setting up the dashboards, and reporting the test automation status with stakeholders.
- Strong leadership qualities with the ability to motivate and guide the test automation team.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment.
- Proven experience in building successful relationships across teams to effectively manage critical path dependencies and escalations.
- Accountable for outcomes and showing a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Collaborative working with test teams, development teams and engineering communities.
- Delivery of high quality outcomes.Experience working with a distributed team model.

**What is it like to work there?
We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.

We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

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