Melbourne-Engineer Level 1-Automation Engineering

Planit are world leaders in application testing and quality engineering. We provide solutions that support organisations to deliver high quality systems, applications, and IT architecture.

Planit is now a proud NRI company and part of a global movement to deliver a sustainable and secure future through better Information Technology exchanges. Our team offer expert consultancy, bespoke services, tailored training and unique solutions to complex projects. Specialising in digital quality, Planit have a geographic footprint across many continents, with 1800+ permanent employees and have been recognised in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services.

Our values and ethos are focused on an intrinsic connection to our people, the awareness of our environment and our pursuit to be better than yesterday. We continue to lead the industry with unrivalled ideas, ability, and a quest to discern paradigms.

About the Role

This is an Automation Engineer role, where you will be part of our 900+ strong team of testing experts across the country. You will be given the tools you need to advance your skills and experience, while adding true value to your career and our top tier client base. You will bring your coding expertise, business skills and understanding of modern cloud infrastructure along with a desire to continuously improve.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute and maintain automation scripts enabling and advocating an automation first approach
• Design automation test frameworks
• Be part of team that creates tests strategies which provide ROI to clients
• Research, investigate, socialise and aid in the implementation of appropriate new and emerging technologies and approaches via internal innovation of our automation, quality engineering, performance and DevOps communities

Essential Skills and Experience

• Demonstrate effective application of various agile project activities and techniques such as stand-ups, iteration planning and execution, Kanban card walls and retrospectives.
• Great utilisation of test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright Cypress.io, Webdriver.io, Appium or similar.
• Strong working experience using programming languages such as Java, C#, Javascript, Python. You are proud of the code you write and can understand object oriented programming and design patterns.
• You may have good understanding of automated API testing using tools such as Rest Assured, Jmeter, Karate, SuperTest or similar.
• You may have good understanding of BDD concepts and experience with tools such as Cucumber, SpecFlow and JBehave.
• A passion for testing experience, particularly web front-end and back-end testing experience.
• Draft, distribute and socialise formal documents such as project reports, artefacts and knowledge base.
• You have good understanding of GIT and versioning
• Excellent communication

Desirable skills and experience

• Effective relationship management skills and proven ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships.
• You have a growth mindset and are passionate about continuous learning.
• Knowledge and/or experience in cloud computing platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP is highly desirable.
• Experience in the application and setup of Continuous Integration/Deployment process and tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Team City or CircleCI.