Automation QA Engineer

• Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia
• Learn and develop with the latest techs
• Develop understanding of the wonderful world of online payments and modern orchestration techniques
• Surry Hills/Norwest based with hybrid working arrangement

We are Woolworths Group

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose – 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.' It's that Purpose that fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. 

If you're excited to turn today's blue sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive and empowering workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

What you'll do

• Work collaboratively in cross-functional teams to develop a strong understanding of the systems and testing objectives
• Gain a thorough understanding of the intricacies of the complex online payments world and apply this knowledge to create manual and automated tests
• Contribute to our DevOps processes around CI/CD practices and tools.
• Participate in improving our Agile processes and QA best practices.
• Support our internal and external customers advising on implementation and integration challenges
• Working with API services, related microservices and No-Sql databases
• Participate in all agile ceremonies.
• Ability to write clear bug reports quickly and concisely and collaborate with developers to get them fixed
• Carry out exploratory testing within an Agile environment

What you'll bring

• 5+ years' industry Web testing experience within backend API and event driven systems
• Comprehensive Test Automation: Execution of both API Automation for backend services and UI Automation
• Strong experience in modern QA practices and disciplines
• Strong experience testing applications following microservice architectures
• Resiliency on changing requirements and features and being able to shift focus
• Experience in API automation using frameworks written in Rest Assured, Cypress or C#
• Expertise in testing and mocking of RESTful APIs.
• Experience navigating technical systems to extract data, logs and troubleshooting issues independently. We use NoSQL databases, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Dynatrace etc.
• Experience in testing Event based systems, service bus or message queues (Azure Event Hubs/Service Bus)
• Good understanding of microservice architectures along with Agile & Lean delivery principles

What you'll Experience

• Team Discounts - Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• Wellness - Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team's diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems.