Senior QA Engineer

Job no: 504629
Work type: Contract Full Time
Location: Various
Categories: IT/Technology

About the ABC

The ABC is the nations most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations culture and stories. With over 4000 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 50 locations around Australia and overseas we are proud to create curate and deliver highquality content that informs educates and entertains Australian communities.

About the Role

Ensure high quality software is delivered for the ABCs Content Management system and APIs in line with ABC strategy and Product & Content Technologys objectives.

Key accountabilities

• Under broad direction collaborate with the Quality Assurance and Development Teams to ensure successful of the teams test strategy and test plans.
• Develop and maintain complex automation frameworks to verify the functionality & performance of UI backend and monitoring integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Create test plans for complex systems execute test cases and correctly report test results across all functional areas of the platform.
• Develop an outstanding understanding of the systems requirements and lead the development and implementation of an automation strategy with appropriate dependencies assumptions and constraints.
• Drive and guide the platform teams strategy and approach to automation testing and actively promote and educate the platform teams on automation techniques.
• Analyse particularly complex software systems and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to improve the design including governance measurement to ensure applications perform to specification.

About You

• Demonstrated experience in development or testing highly data driven applications.
• Hands on experience with tools for testing & automation such as Playwright Cypress WebDriver IO Postman & Cucumber.
• Outstanding programming skills in at least one language (ideally JavaScript TypeScript or Go)
• Extensive experience in developing automation frameworks and tests for front end apps and restful APIs. GraphQL experience would be well regarded.
• Extensive experience working with DevOps and CI/CD tools such as GitLab and Bamboo
• Experienced writing & maintaining performance tests using tools like K6
• Experience with AWS Lambda EC2 ECS SNS Dynamo DB RDS CloudWatch etc
• Foster a coaching mindset and collaborate with crossfunctional teams to identify and implement shiftleft testing opportunities.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with the ability convey complex technical information to various stakeholders.
• Experience with the following tools & technologies is desirable to have: Atlassian Jira and Confluence; Content Management System (e.g. Core Media Adobe CQ5; Log parsing and analysis using regular expressions Splunk/Datadog Elastic Search & Solr

Whats In It For You

Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department in the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABCs digital future where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australias most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives.

As a group of product and platform teams we develop and maintain the ABCs audience facing digital products across mobile connected TV desktop and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news bringing some great TV on ABC iview streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app the ABCs Digital Product offerings are some of Australias most loved and most used platforms.

Your work will be appreciated by millions of audiences across Australia. We are an open and cohesive team where your voice will not get lost. You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog: are committed to career development and invest in our people to grow and become leaders in their fields. Everyone in the Digital Product department has a designated budget for training and development. We believe in flexible approaches to working and building selforganising and collaborative teams that offer friendly and supportive environments in which all team members can strive and grow.

For further information on this position please contact Brett Whyte Digital Talent Acquisition Specialist via email

We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.

In line with our focus ondiversity applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds people with disability and LGBTIQA individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a genderbalanced workforce.

For more information on inclusive employee networks within the ABC please refer to Life Pageon ABC LinkedIn.

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Advertised: 18 Mar 2025 3:40 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 15 Apr 2025 5:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time