Test Automation Manager

**About the Role**
An opportunity for a Test Automation Manager to join the Group Tech division at Bank of Queensland. In this role you will be responsible for governing, managing, coordinating testing automation, strategy, and operations across the Enterprise.

You will also:

- Provide governance for automated testing activities across the enterprise.
- Define, Build and Deliver the QA Test Automation Strategy and roadmap in alignment with the group QA strategy.
- Manage automation team in day-to-day project tasks.
- Coach Test Leads and Automation Engineers in quality practices and tools.
- Provide team leadership, performance reviews, and development plans of Automation Engineers.
- Monitor automation team test progress and report.
- Provide guidance and information to develop and maintain Automation frameworks that are fit for purpose.
- Implement continuous improvements to QA processes and activities based on defect root cause and learnings from past/similar projects.
- Identify risks & mitigation plans impacting automation delivery.
- Ensure Automation code follows development best practice for version control, structure, and maintainability.

**About you**
We are looking for an individual that has an understanding and experience in Testing automation methodologies. You will have an ability to develop, comprehend, interpret, and align with company policies and procedures. The following attributes will also help you to succeed in this role:

- Ability to create and maintain constructive, positive work relationships with all staff at varying levels.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with an ability to prioritise, negotiate, and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to influence stakeholders across divisions, collaborating for enterprise outcomes.
- Ability to work on own and as part of a team.

**About Us**
BOQ is one of Australia’s leading regional banks and provides a genuine alternative for Australian financial services customers and employees. Our purpose is to create prosperity for our customers, shareholders and people through empathy, integrity and by making a difference. Our ambition is to be known as the bold challenger bank; with multi-brands that are digitally enabled with a personal touch.

BOQ is passionate about providing opportunities for you to develop your career as we continuously adapt and deliver in a transformational and collaborative environment with a strong focus on community.

BOQ’s Inclusion vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

Since 2021 BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

**Our Benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Paid volunteer days
- Purchase annual leave
- Discounted private health insurance plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 5 employee diversity network groups focusing on: First Nations Reconciliation Council, Proudly ME (LGBTIQA+), Multicultural, Gender and Early Career
- BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index

**How to Apply**

The Bank of Queensland is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

If you are successful for a role with the Bank of Queensland, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.

Job Reference: BOQ02631