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Senior QA Automation Engineer

New South Wales, Australia (On-site)

Senior QA Automation Engineer

1 Week ago • 8-10 Years • Quality Assurance

About the job

Summary

This Senior QA Automation Engineer role supports a major Australian financial institution modernizing its trading and clearing platforms. The project involves building new digital experiences and core trading capabilities using AWS, Java Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and Kafka. Responsibilities include creating and modifying automation suites/frameworks for backend API/Kafka services, acting as the single point of contact for the automation team, managing requirements, coordinating team work, and serving as the automation SME. The role requires hands-on experience with automation, API testing, Java applications, microservices, and data streaming. Experience with CI/CD, test environment setup, and test management tools is essential.

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java

confluence

jira

back-end

kubernetes

postman

spring-boot

aws

swift

design-patterns

selenium

communication

functional-testing

load-testing

api-testing

Must have:

8-10 years automation experience
Selenium, Rest Assured, Postman
Java, Spring Boot, Kafka
API testing, Microservices testing
CI/CD, JIRA, Confluence
BDD, Cucumber
Banking/Financial services experience
Excellent communication & stakeholder management

Good to have:

Financial market knowledge
Regulated environment experience
Non-functional testing (performance, load)
Messaging protocols (FpML, SWIFT, FIX)
ISTQB Certification

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Project description

Support an iconic Australian brand as they seek to replace and modernise core trading and clearing platforms.
You will be working on the latest technologies (AWS, Java Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka) in a greenfield project building out new digital experiences and core trading capability for this major financial institution.

Responsibilities

This role is a hands on QA automation engineer role who will create/modify automation suite/framework's for back-end API/Kafka services integrating with the existing Clearing platform.

You will be acting as the single point of contact for that team, managing requirements and coordinating the worker of the automation team.

You will also act as the automation SME for the team ensuring the best possible outcome for the underlying projects.

Skills

Must have

Have experience in banking / financial services industry

Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management skills

Have at least 8-10 years of automation experience in Selenium Framework, and API testing tools like Rest Assure and Postman

Experience testing Java applications, micro services (eg. Java Spring Boot / Node Js), data streaming (Kafka) capabilities.

Basic DevOps Integration and Kafka knowledge

In-depth knowledge of popular Java frameworks like JSF Spring Boot & Spring MVC

Experience in testing RESTful APIs

Experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD)

Sound level understanding of object oriented programming.

In-depth testing and automation experience in a structured environment.

Experience in system, system integration, regression, end-to-end, & parallel testing.

Experience with common CICD tools

working with as well as setting up pipelines.

Experience in test environment and test data setup.

Worked as part of medium to large sized project teams.

Experience with test management tools such as JIRA and confluence.

Ability to multi-task and be comfortable with frequently changing priorities.

Experienced in BDD and implementation of Cucumber based automation frameworks.

Nice to have

Knowledge of Financial markets including products and transaction lifecycles

Worked in a regulated environment. Conversant with Test processes

Exposure to non-functional testing, such as performance and load testing

Knowledge of messaging protocols, such as FpML, SWIFT or FIX

Continuous improvement mindset

ISTQB Testing Certification

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior

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About The Company

Luxoft

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Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company (NYSE: DXC), is a digital strategy and software engineering firm providing bespoke technology solutions that drive business change for customers the world over. Acquired by U.S. company DXC Technology in 2019, Luxoft is a global operation in 44 cities and 21 countries with an international, agile workforce of nearly 18,000 people. It combines a unique blend of engineering excellence and deep industry expertise, helping over 425 global clients innovate in the areas of automotive, financial services, travel and hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, media and telecommunications.

DXC Technology is a leading Fortune 500 IT services company which helps global companies run their mission critical systems. Together, DXC and Luxoft offer a differentiated customer-value proposition for digital transformation by combining Luxoft’s front-end digital capabilities with DXC’s expertise in IT modernization and integration. Follow our profile for regular updates and insights into technology and business needs.