Senior Automation Engineer
Job Summary
ASX: Powering Australias financial markets
Why join the ASX
When you join ASX youre joining a company with a strong purpose to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.
In your new role youll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.
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are more than a securities exchange!
The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.
We run critical market infrastructure with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations program delivery financial products investor engagement risk and compliance.
Were proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ inclusion promote gender equality accessibility and wellbeing inspire giving and volunteering and celebrate cultural and religious events creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality were committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
The role is responsible to design build and support automation frameworks for ASX Market Announcement Platform and Reference data Management system built of the Golden source vendor product
Team is responsible for ASXs reference data system and Markets announcement platform a vendor platform with capabilities including build test release and maintain of systems and its customisation within the Markets Line of Business.
- Responsiblefor design usingown in-depthtechnical analysisof functional and non-functional specificationsrequirementsand solution architecture of automation suite.
- Design code verify amend and refactor automation code and scripts.
- Ensuretraceabilityrecordsexistfromautomationbacktorequirements.
- Contribute totheautomationapproachforprojects
- -engineeredoutcomes.
- Responsibleforinterpretingandexecutingcomplexscriptsanalysingresultsandmaintainingadefectregister
- Responsibleforsystemqualityandcollect metricsontestsandresults.
- Responsiblefor creationof test casestestcycles maintaining application testingsuite and following ASX Qualityengineering framework.
- SupportandimplementtheASXSoftwarePolicyandGuidelineswithinthecontextoftheassignedworkandtoolsusedandcreate and maintain documentation relevant to this.
Must have
- 5 years of experience in building automation framework/scripts and tools.
- Worked in an environment with a structured development process performing automated System and System Integration testing. Proven experience in automation design based on in-depth technical and requirements analysis.
- Created and maintained automated test code and scripts run automated tests and interpreted & reviewed results from automated test runs.
- Had exposure to automation at the UI and the API level. Worked as part of an agile cross-functional team.
- Had exposure to SOL query writing and have basic database skills. Had exposure to XML. AVRO or other message parsing
- Experience with DevOps and Continuous Integration tools (GITLAB Nexus SonarQube) Experience with Cucumber. Selenium Playwright. Mockito or RestAssured.
- Exposure to non-functional testing such as performance and load testing.
- Strong programming and scripting skills with JAVA PowerShell. Bash Perl or Python.
Nice to have
- Experience with testing micro-services and/or container-based architectures.
- Knowledge of messaging protocols. such as SWIFT or FIX.
- Created or contributed to automated test frameworks.
- Capital Markets industry experience such as understanding of Stocks and shares. derivatives markets. and the business processes related to clearing of member trades.
- Lateral thinker - bring forward ideas that will automate repeatable tasks to reduce work effort and ensure quality deliverables.
We make hiring decisions based on your skills capabilities and experience and how youll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you dont meet all the criteria of this role.
If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self please let us know at
At ASX Group our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.
We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.
To be considered for this position candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.
Required Experience:
Senior IC