Staff Software Engineer

• You are an expert in Software Engineering, designing & building test automation strategies

• We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

• Together, we will build tomorrow's bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters

CommBank is recognised as leading technology and engineering innovation across Australia, from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our Software team are the brains behind Australia's number one banking app, Netbank, Cardless Cash, Comm Sec Pocket and Spend Tracker.

We go beyond a passion for web and mobile development, creating reliable APIs at a unique scale in Australia. We've transitioned into full cycle engineering and are focussed further embedding the shift left approach for quality engineering.

See yourself in our team

This is your chance to join our Crew, who are a team of passionate, creative and forward-thinking engineers and some of the best in Australia.

As a senior technical leader, you'll drive our Software Engineering strategy, embedding the shift left approach across different squads, designing and coding test automation frameworks from scratch, incorporating security, reliability and observability into the design and build of our software. You will be involved in training our software engineers in specific testing skills, and ensuring they have the right tools, data and environments for efficient automation testing during the build.

With your broad range of architecture, software and platform engineering knowledge you'll also implement strategies to address more complex efficiency across the Crew.

We're interested in hearing from people who

• Are highly experienced and passionate about Software Engineering

• Who enjoy using their expertise to drive new ways of working, influencing and educating squads on Shift Left, DevSecOps and building streamline end to end automation frameworks

• Offer expertise across a variety of automation testing solutions including performance, NFT, API, automation, cloud, end-to-end testing processes and defect management

• Have a thorough understanding of available DevSecOps tooling, such as software or tooling for the CI/CD pipeline

• Proactively collaborate with others to resolve service issues and reduce operational activities by automating repetitive tasks

• Proven ability to catch defects early in the lifecycle and reduced dependency on expensive UI or e2e tests

• Have a 'you build it and you run it' mindset and continue focusing on delivering top quality services to end-users.

Tech skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don't expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these will set you up for success in this team:

• Test Automation, testing frameworks and optimising test processes in a software environment is essential

• Mocking, service virtualisation and\or contract testing

• Expertise with CI/CD pipeline tooling-, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium, Blazemeter

• TDD/BDD or model-based testing experience

• Automated environment and test data provisioning

• Demonstrated experience in shifting testing left

• Automated evidence generation and reporting

• Proficient with modern languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar is a plus

• Familiarity with Containerisation and public cloud engineering - AWS preferred

• Code reviews, policy configurations

• Networking concepts such as zones, load balancing, whitelisting, and proxies
  • Infra as code

Working with us

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you. We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in the office.

We also have many other flexible working options available, including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations.

We're looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment, and we'll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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