Senior Automation Tester

**READY FOR ANYTHING**

At IAG, we live and work by our purpose to make your world a safer place. We are motivated by a unique culture that celebrates honesty, creativity, empathy, equality and collaboration. We call it the IAG way, and it means we all share a ‘ready for anything’ mindset that sets the tone for positive actions and positive outcomes. We put heart into everything we do which guides us to create amazing things for our customers, our people and our communities.
As the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand, we own some of the region’s most trusted brands, including AMI, State, NZI, Lantern, Swann and NAC. We are ready for anything.

**The Role**

You are part of a technology products and services division, that creates market differentiation through deployment of resilient, innovative technology and contemporary methods, at scale. The purpose and unique contribution of your role is to analyse proposed solutions, implement solutions, solve complex problems and to provide test leadership to assure the quality of the solutions being built. To perform this role, you will work closely with Project Managers, Iteration Managers, Analysts and Developers, as well as other members of the platform and project teams, such as Architects, Environment Management, Release Management and key business stakeholders.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Enable teams to activate end to end digital experiences for customers, colleagues and partners, that are more secure, robust and scalable than ever before, and deliver them with lightning speed
- Bring thought leadership in your field of expertise to support the planning and execution of Technology’s strategic priorities, contemporary operating model and business plan
- Operationalise testing strategies to deliver the desired test outcomes for the team, and document them to the appropriate level of detail.
- Responsible for developing ways of working and test engagement practices in collaboration with members of your own team as well as with various stakeholder groups, and document these.
- Provide direction and supervision for larger pieces of work (projects) or multiple pieces of work in terms of testing.
- Participate in inception and estimation sessions to - develop cost and effort estimates on the proposed solution and testing effort including implementation and costs of operation, or support team estimate processes.

**Skills & Experience**:

- Experience in planning, coordinating and reporting on test efforts for projects.
- Expertise in the use of a BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) framework based on Cucumber
- Experience in using automation tools such as Selenium and Capybara for UI interfaces, Mongoid for data handling, contract testing, etc
- Programming expertise in Ruby and Java
- Experience in use of databases - RDBMS as well as NoSQL databases such as Mongo
- You should have experience with Manual testing - feature testing, integration and end to end testing with 3rd party backend environment.
- You need to have experience with Automation testing that includes testcafe with Javascript for UI automation (Any other automation experience is fine like Selenium with c# or Java)
- Experience with Postman: API testing is required
- You need to have knowledge with Jenkins for automation pipeline.
- Knowledge of Bamboo for deployments or any other equivalent tool for deployment is required.
- Knowledge of Jira for day to day sprint activities is required.

**Qualifications**
- Relevant tertiary qualification is preferred

Ready for anything? Let’s talk.

If you have any questions, please contact Talent Acquisition.