Automation Tester - Melbourne, Australia - Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Verified Company

Melbourne, Australia

5 days ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

beBee Recruiter

Description

Executive Level 1, Ongoing
- $103,085 - $116,115 per annum, plus an additional 15.4% Superannuation

Melbourne

Would you like to work for a national organisation that has more than a billion unique page views on its website every year?

Can you join the team responsible for dramatically driving improvement to our web and mobile offerings and be our champion for best practise automation and testing?

Can you uplift our testing capabilities and define and drive adoption of patterns and practices to guide others?

If so, then work with the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia's national weather, climate and water information agency.

The Bureau provides a wide range of products and services to support informed decision-making by governments, emergency services, industry and the community.

Our products and services include a dynamic range of observations, forecasts, warnings, analysis and advice covering Australia's atmosphere, water, oceans and space environments.

We are seeking an experienced Automation Tester to join our Digital team.

You will have previously worked within successful Agile/DevOps teams with the focus on setting up automation testing frameworks from scratch.

You will have strong hands-on experience in projects across both manual and automation testing environments, having delivered within a collaborative Agile/Lean development environment.

You will need to be skilled in setting up automation frameworks with both open source and licensed tools in an enterprise environment.

To be successful in this role you will be up to date with best practices and enthusiastic about Lean/Agile culture.

You will have extensive knowledge of industry standard functional and non-functional testing tools.

Good communication skills, ability to work well as part of a team and excellent attention to detail are all important for this role.

In order to be considered for this role you will need:

Experience with open source and commercial automation tools, frameworks and scripting languages such as (but not limited to) Selenium, Detox, Apium, FitNesse, Cucumber and Watir, Gatling
Excellent understanding of modern web software development languages, e.g., JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl and NodeJS
Significant test automation experience including writing scripts
Proficient in providing Test documentation like TSR, Test Plan etc
Proficient in white box testing, black box testing, performance testing, load testing, unit testing, contract testing and integration testing
Proficient in Mac/ Windows / Linux / Unix environments
Promote and demonstrate core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility
Technical experience on large, complex automation projects
Ability to work effectively within a cross functional team including designers and developers and product owners
Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Agile/DevOps software development principles

- (Optional) Geospatial knowledge a bonus

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