API Automation Consultant

Open for Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane What you'll do:

• Design and manage automation test frameworks and architecture, develop repeatable testing and application performance automation
• Work with business analysts, application team members, and Quality Analysts to integrate test scripts (sanity, system, regression, integration)
• Agile test automation and development environment, to create and maintain the test automation framework
• Requirements and design review, risk-based analysis, test plan creation, test data creation and management, test package creation, and creation and maintenance of process documentation
• Review requirements, create test plans/scripts, executing both automated and manual test scripts as required and providing status reports
• Analyse formal test results
• Collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, sanity, integration, regression, and acceptance testing methods
• Plan test schedules or strategies
• Perform manual testing as required About you:
• In-depth knowledge of testing concepts and functionality as well as a thorough understanding of automation framework design and scripts creation
• Minimum 8 years of software automation testing, test design and test development experience
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in defining and implementing several test automation solutions leveraging one or more of the following: Restful APIs, Selenium, SoapUI, Postman
• 5+ years of Object-oriented programming and strong hands-on automation/development skills in Selenium
• 5+ years of Automated web service / API testing
• Good working experience in using Jenkins, Bitbucket / Git, Jira, Java, Cucumber BDD, Web services/ Jenkins/ Gradle/CICD Integration
• Experience working with T-SQL databases
• Experience with Behaviour-driven development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
• Knowledge in developing test automation frameworks using open-source tools such as Selenium using BDD Cucumber tool
• Knowledge of Git, for Source Control, with knowledge of Jira, Confluence, and test management tools
• Prepare and review reusable functions, improve robustness, re-usability, and maintainability of test scripts