Practice Lead

**We Dream. We Design. We Deliver.**

**humm**group (ASX-HUM) is one of Australasia’s most successful and enduring fintech organisations with a proud legacy of rewriting the playbook for digital spending. We help people buy everything, everywhere, every day. Our product ecosystem of buy now pay later, credit cards, and business financing products has been designed around the core needs of today's shoppers, retailers, and small and medium enterprises.

**What’s so exciting about this role?**

This newly created role will have you leading the Quality Assurance (QA) Engineers at the hummgroup. This role will allow you to steer on the 'how' and on the standards a member uses in their job including general skill development.

**Requirements for this role (you may not have them all)**:

- Define the Test Practice and Test Automation Strategy that align with our humm scrum agile practices
- Develop and instill a continuous improvement culture via a focus on process improvements & innovation
- Determine test strategies that mitigate the risks and a plan that works within the constraints
- Work with architects, other leads (e.g. Tech Leads and Agile Practice Lead), QA engineers and other stakeholders to select suitable tools to implement test automation
- Introduce new tools and approaches to test automation through experimentation and prototyping to enhance the CI/CD pipeline as well as the potential use of BDD and TDD
- Train and develop both QA team members and squad team members to align to a common testing practice, to improve skills and performance to achieve outcomes and grow our capability
- Perform resource planning, effort estimation, cost estimation, task allocation and schedule management for testing assignments
- Work with Release team to ensure a successful product delivery through SIT/UAT/PROD
- Provide guidance to QAs for the both functional and non-functional testing execution
- Prepare training, knowledge sharing, and mentoring session to grow other testers.
- Be comfortable to conduct a presentation to wider audience in the origination to introduce the testing strategy, test process and test findings
- Help to grow the engineering team by establishing the right practices across all test teams while collaborating with Architects and Tech Leads while leaving space for autonomy within squads.

**Who will thrive in this role?**

You are someone who believes in the strength of good relationships. You are flexible, driven and passionate about customers.

**We also require someone with**:

- Experience within a fast paced/enterprise environment in various technologies, platforms and SDLCs
- Strong understanding of testing principles, methodologies, & tools
- Experience of working an agile environment, particularly the Scrum framework
- Experience in Test Automation highly desirable, and the use of automation tools, such as TestComplete, Selenium, Appium, Karate, SoapUI and Postman etc.
- Excellent grasp of test analysis and planning, release processes and test environment principles
- A strong work ethic and team skills, including mentoring
- A strong leadership skill and communication skills and the ability to work with various stakeholders from the business
- Experience in cloud based services such as Azure or AWS
- Experience in non-functional testing, such as load/stress/performance tools (e.g. JMeter) or security testing (such as WSTG)
- Experience working in a CI/CD delivery environment using Jenkins, Maven, BitBucket, Git etc. would be advantageous
- Experience in mentoring and coaching junior team member

**Working at hummgroup**

**humm** is in growth mode, and with that comes the unique opportunity to truly own and build your career journey with us. This remarkable role will allow you the freedom to further develop, be creative and to champion best practices.

**humm** embraces flexible working arrangements, ensuring a genuine work-life balance and fun, vibrant culture - a team of highly engaged and high performing people, all intent on revolutionising the way people pay.