Automation Test Analyst

Company Description

Welcome to This Australian Life.

From the millions of Australians we protect, to those that make it happen every day at TAL, people really are what we’re all about. We want to grow with you. Achieve with you. And support you to do your best work. That's why we're focused on developing leadership, promoting diversity, rewarding excellence and retaining great talent.

We're always looking for people who want to go further with us. People who do what’s right, aim high, and work smart. Why not see where we can go?

**Job Description**:

- Build, write, execute and maintain the automation framework
- Design tests with an exploratory focus.
- Work collaboratively with the developers/business analysts to improve test coverage
- Create and maintain relevant test documentation and artefacts
- Defect management using TAL agreed Quality Assurance (QA) processes
- Create and review acceptance criteria with focus on behaviour-based development methodologies
- Perform risk analysis and ensure reliability and security of software and data under test
- Always raise quality concerns/constraints and come up with ways of addressing them
- Identify areas appropriate for automation and look for ways to optimise test scenarios
- Proactive communication and collaboration with interdependent scrum teams
- Manage and maintain the QA Environment
- Contribute to product release, maintaining release notes and perform Production Verification Testing where necessary
- Participate in activities to improve QA: tools, process, knowledge sharing, reporting, etc.
- Investigate and present new ideas to team
- Suggest and implement improvements to the automation testing aspects of our CI/CD pipeline

**Qualifications**:
Excellent personal skills: Excellent communication skills; excellent analysis and problem solving ability; creative testing mindset with ability to think outside the box; proactive; responsible and holds oneself accountable to commitments made; goal oriented; analytically rigorous with a high attention to detail; collaborative and can also work independently; team player; ability to influence peers across both IT and business; introspective; accustomed to context switching between projects; flexible and adaptive in a fast changing environment.

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

- IT or a related field qualification
- 8+ years in Quality Testing & 3+ years in Test Automation technologies (Selenium, Ruby, etc.)
- Experience in implementing test frameworks
- Experience in digital (web and mobile device) test automation
- API and web services testing experience using tools such as SOAP UI, Postman, Swagger
- Experience with Test Driven Development
- Agile environment experience
- Experience with automating testing from CI/CD pipeline tools such as TeamCity, Octopus and Azure DevOps

Desirable Qualification/Experience: Tertiary qualifications; Financial Services/Insurance/Life Insurance industry background; experience writing.NET code; proficient with Jira & Confluence; understands behaviour driven development; browser/device simulation tool experience.

Additional Information

Work is a big part of this Australian life, and we work hard to make it one of the best parts. We don’t just say it; we do it. We offer a workplace that’s inclusive and flexible, supporting our people with options that let them make the most of their careers.

We know the value of having different people from all walks of life, with varied points of view and attributes regardless of their age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status or any disabilities they might be living with. We strive for a diverse and inclusive workplace where a sense of belonging encourages people to bring their full selves to work.

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.