Senior Quality Engineer - Test Automation Specialist

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Who We Are

Telstra is Australias leading telecommunications and technology company spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20 countries. In India were building a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. Weve grown quickly since our inception in 2019 now with offices in Bangalore and Pune.

Focus of the Role

As a Senior Quality Engineer Test Automation Specialist you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the endtoend software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.

What Youll Do

• Product & Technology Software Engineering & IT develops and maintains Telstras software and IT systems working on some really cuttingedge technologies.
• Lead the shiftleft movementbake quality into development from day one. Youll take the lead in embedding quality from the very first line of code!
• Teach & inspire teams to write testable highquality code and implement automation smartly (TDD BDD unit testing space you name it!.
• Be the quality evangelist in Telstramentor teams drive best practices and set the standard for test automation. Coach and mentor developers teaching them how to test better and earlier.
• Architect rocksolid test automation frameworks that scale across microservices APIs and cloudbased platforms.
• Collaborate innovate and challenge the normquality is a team sport here and youll help level up the entire engineering squad in Telstra.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines with intelligent automation that reduces manual intervention. Be the goto expert on qualityfrom test strategies to DevSecOps pipelines youll set the gold standard.
• Dive deep into performance security and reliability testing to ensure our systems can handle anything.
• Improve test efficiency by eliminating flaky tests and ensuring reliable automation across platforms.
• Stay on top of emerging tech introducing innovative testing approaches to make quality engineering smarter.

About You

• A problemsolver who thrives in complex largescale projects and challenges the status quo and shaking things up for the better.
• A Continuous learner eager to grow and make an impact
• 8 to 14 years of strong working experience in Software Automation Testing.
• A handson expert in test automation (Java Selenium Playwright Cucumber RestAssured API/Microservice testing) you make quality seamless through code.
• Strong knowledge of TDD BDD and CI/CD pipelinesbecause testing is part of development not an afterthought.
• Youve designed and built scalable automation frameworks that keep up with fastmoving distributed systems.
• Passion for mentoring and coaching teams Youll help developers level up their testfirst mindset and write rocksolid qualityoriented code.
• Strong database testing skills performance testing expertise and understanding of infrastructure testing.
• Ability to collaborate with leadership developers and product teams to drive quality as a culture.
• Deep experience in DevOps cloud platforms (Azure preferably) and microservices contract testing you know how modern apps should be tested.

Whatll Give You Bonus Points

• Youve helped build a qualityfirst culture in previous roles.
• Experience in implementing any AIdriven test automation to enhance productivity.
• Youve worked in telecom (OSS/BSS).
• You have a solid grasp of security testing and validating AI resultsand youre not afraid to dive in and get handson when needed.
• Youve dabbled in AIdriven test automation (or are super keen to learn it).
• Experience in performance and load testing of applications and apis at super crazy volumes.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.

What We Offer

• Performancerelated pay
• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can levelup
• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
• Up to 26 weeks maternity leave provided to the birth mother with benefits for all child births
• Up to 16 weeks paid paternity leave provided to the nonbirthing partners
• Employees are entitled to 21 paid annual leaves per calendar year
• Eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of paid sick / casual leave per calendar year
• Relocation support options across India from junior to senior positions within the company
• Receive insurance benefits such as medical accidental and life insurances

If you are looking to take the next step in your career we want to hear from you!

When you join our team you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds ethnicities genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive.

As part of the hiring process all identified candidates will undergo a background check and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.