Automation Test Lead

**Be at the heart of our brave new digital world**

We thrive on cross-functional team collaboration, we embrace experimenting, and we work with progressive methods and tools. This includes leveraging agile ways of working and keeping human-centered design thinking the focus of everything we do.

This means you'll be at the heart of finding better ways to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. Working in such a customer-focused and rewarding area brings a huge variety of opportunities for professional and personal growth.

Our global mission is to help our customers live healthier and happier lives. Just imagine the impact you could make

**What's your role?**

We are seeking an experienced automation test lead with a strong background in mobile testing. In this role, you will play a key part in establishing best practices for mobile automation testing, API testing and driving quality across our mobile platforms.

**This is a Permanent role and you can be based in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane**.

**What will I be doing?**
- Develop and maintain the overall automation test strategy for projects and programs, ensuring the most effective and efficient testing practices are implemented
- Evaluate technical and business requirements to produce comprehensive test plans and estimates, aligned with the automation framework
- Lead all automation testing activities, including API testing, and facilitate communication with project stakeholders to ensure testing is completed within schedule and budget
- Participate in and promote test process improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency and quality
- Define and manage test environment requirements, ensuring environments are up-to-date and in sync with the current codebase
- Manage the design, creation, execution, and reporting of automated tests using a wide range of tools across diverse technology stacks
- Plan and coordinate test execution across various environments, aligning with release management to ensure quality outcomes
- Maintain and track testing KPIs and metrics, using data to drive continuous improvement in quality assurance and testing effectiveness
- Provide guidance to automation test analysts, leading CI/CD pipeline initiatives and promoting best practices
- Continuously monitor and control test activities to ensure alignment with project and release goals

**What will I bring?**
- Strong experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders, including testing services, enterprise project services, and delivery units
- Proven ability to produce high-quality test automation code, conduct code reviews, and provide constructive feedback to other developers
- Skilled in developing test automation frameworks using tools like Selenium, Appium, Playwright, Browserstack and Microsoft Visual Studio
- Proficient in using Azure DevOps for test planning, execution, automation, pipeline orchestration, and reporting
- Strong background in SQL, UML, and working within SCRUM/Agile environments
- Hands-on experience with API testing, including tools like Postman, REST Assured, or similar, and the ability to validate RESTful services and microservices
- Expertise in defining and implementing best-practice unit, contract, integration, API, and UI automation testing strategies in CI/CD environments
- Skilled in implementing and maintaining automated test suites and scripts
- Well-versed in test methodologies and testing tools

**What's in it for you**

We reward our people and celebrate their success. From providing initiatives that develop careers to looking after our people's health, wellbeing and futures. Through the Viva Healthier and Happier program, we're providing health benefits for everyone who works at Bupa, no matter their role. We want to support our people to be the healthiest and happiest versions of themselves.