Senior Automation Testing Leader

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Detail information about job Senior Automation Testing Leader. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Leadership role in one of our fastest growing practices.
• Great salary packages and performance based bonus structure.
• Fantastic new inner city offices.

Revolution IT is seeking a Senior Automation Testing Leader.  We're looking for someone who has a wealth of experience as a specialist in their field and able to utilise their experience in providing strategic advice to senior business stakeholders. You will act as an advocate for the change, improvement and implementation of test automation assessing strategy, frameworks and toolsets.

You also have the desire to take on a hands-on role when necessary and have a real interest in team development and training as you will ascertain and deliver a vision of the strategy and direction of the Automation practice.

The successful candidate will have proven experience with a variety of licensed and open source tools, frameworks and scripting languages in the Automation discipline (e.g. UFT, Selenium, Cucumber, Tosca, Eggplant, Spec Flow, C#, Ruby and Java).

Required Skills & Experience.

• Professional and versatile approach, demonstrating a consulting mentality to work with a variety of teams and stakeholders in challenging project environments.
• 10+ years consulting and technology delivery experience across agile projects with a focus on TDD/BDD.
• Presales support - attending client meetings, recommending technical solutions to deliver the right client outcomes.
• Defining a vision and strategy to evolve current automation policies, methods, practices, and supporting tools.
• Practice leadership and growth. Including responsibility for hiring high quality technical resources and then managing their technical and professional development.
• Experience/success in building/automating/testing highly integrated enterprise production environments.
• Desire to share and grow the companies’ automation knowledge through the transfer of skills and knowledge to team members.
• Technical team  leadership experience on large, complex automation projects.
• Understanding of standard reporting mechanisms, particularly in Scrum/Kanban and how they are used to track progress, e.g. cumulative flow, burn down/burn up charts, velocity and cycle time.
• Experience with open source and licensed automation tools, frameworks and scripting languages such as HP UFT (Unified Functional Tester), Tosca, Selenium, FitNesse, Cucumber and Watir.
• Significant experience of leading Open Source Test Automation frameworks such as Selenium / RestAssured / Postman.
• Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOAP and REST).
• Bachelor’s Degree with a technology emphasis, or equivalent qualification.

Advantageous Skills and Experience.

• Strong delivery/architecture experience with containers Kubernettes(clusters), Docker, etc.
• Extensive experience working with or delivering applications with CI/CD toolstacks i.e.: Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Git, etc.
• Strong experience with cloud-based architecture (Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Incinga, SiteScope, Splunk, Elastic, etc.
• Experienced delivering webscale, multiOS and microservice based applications.

What we offer:

We're offering a supporting environment with competitive remuneration packages. We are heavily focused on training and development opportunities and personalise training plans to your specific career aspirations while being mindful of impending changes in the marketplace. We provide a supportive environment where you are free to demonstrate your expertise and push the boundaries to produce exceptional outcomes for our customers. We are a collaborative organisation and like to employ testing experts, then let them do what they do best. Organisational culture is important to us so we regularly hold functions, events etc to share knowledge and recognise and reward our staff for their efforts.      

Apply now and join a leading testing consultancy where you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most high-profile projects in Australia.

Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in Revolution IT.

Please note: Revolution IT does not engage with external agencies or recruiters.