Australian Payments Plus
Senior Quality Engineer
The AP+ team strives to deliver world leading innovation, excellence in delivery, and customer experiences that delight and inspire us to build a better, stronger and more prosperous Australia.
Software engineering
Contract
Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.
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Why Australian Payments Plus
At AP+ we're changing the game! We're doing big things, and we can't do it alone. We're part of a big ecosystem, and we know teamwork and passion for our purpose is what will make us successful. We value the unique talents, perspectives, of all our employees. This includes people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, First Nations Peoples, people of all abilities and diverse backgrounds, as well as their families.
AP+ brings together Australia’s three domestic payment providers, BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia, into one integrated entity. Bringing these businesses together enables AP+ to create a more competitive and coordinated Australian payments organisation that is strategically placed to respond to the impacts of regulatory and technological change today, and into the future.
About the role
Description
**The Game Changers: ** Australian Payments Plus (AP+) is here to shape the future of payments for Australia. We aim to deliver more innovation to Australia’s payments ecosystem, for the collective benefit of Australian businesses, government and consumers. Our solutions include Australia’s domestic debit network, real-time, data rich payments infrastructure, secure bill payments, digital identity verification, QR payments and experiences and open wallet solutions. It’s a new chapter with more possibilities.
**Life @ AP+: ** We are one connected team in pursuit of one inspiring purpose – to unite people and technology to power better experiences. Each of us has a part to play in making that happen. You’ll be encouraged to bring your big ideas forward and make a difference through your work. Taking steps forward in your career whilst still having room for fun, friendships, and flexibility in your daily life. We’re driven by our core values: lead with heart, learn for tomorrow and live our legacy. A purpose like ours takes the inspired impact of an incredible team. Ready to change the game? We’re ready to help you do it.
The Role: We’re adding a Senior Quality Engineer to our already thriving team. As a Senior Quality Engineer at AP+, you’ll be playing a key role in the continual advancement of our mastery and practices and remain highly aware of industry trends. You’ll contribute to a team and be ‘on-tools’ to take responsibility for ensuring our delivery process runs smoothly across AP+, focusing on continuous improvement of our quality engineering practices, to ensure quality in all our applications
This is a 12 months Max Term position Primary Accountabilities, Duties and Responsibilities:
- **Testing execution: **Identify testable events and develop the test cases/test scripts for test case management. Perform manual test execution with a focus to automate as early as possible. Manage test environments, monitor test results, provide test reporting and streamline release management.
- **Testing types and levels: **Perform the design, development, execution, and analysis of testing types across testing levels, to ensure quality, speed and accuracy over our applications. Be able to provide input and review of business requirements and functional specifications to help with test case design and preparation.
- **Perform test automation: **Develop test automation scripts for CI/CD pipelines to run for your squad/business unit to drive efficiency, improve processes, save time and resources and provide quality assurance in our products.
- **Continuous delivery: **Work with engineering teams to integrate functional and non-functional testing into continuous delivery practices.
- **Continuous improvement: **Facilitate retrospectives and quality reviews to identify areas for process improvement, promoting a culture of innovation and excellence. Help improve ways of working within your squad, be that “Quality Voice.”
- **Cross-Functional collaboration: **Collaborate closely with development, product management, and operations teams to integrate functional and non-functional quality assurance practices into the development lifecycle.
- **Tool management: **Help to evaluate, select, and implement testing tools and frameworks to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of functional and non-functional testing processes.
We'd love to hear from you if have:
- Experience in payments/financial technology a plus but not a requirement.
- We need you to be a great communicator. You’ll need to represent Quality Engineering to the rest of AP+ and to external customers and vendors.
- Prior experience as a Quality Engineer (or equivalent) (approx. 5+ years).
- At least 3+ years hands-on experience in Web, Mobile, and API testing.
- At least 3+ years’ experience or exposure to non-functional testing.
- Experience in building and using different testing frameworks and automation scripts (e.g. Cypress, Playwright, Jest, Appium, Selenium).
What you'll be responsible for
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Stakeholder Engagement
Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights
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Scripting and Automation
Develop scripts and automated workflows to improve the efficiency and accuracy of repeated tasks
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Test Automation
Create and implement code tests and software test automation
Skills you'll need
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Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
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Numerical problem solving
Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems
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Attention to detail
Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables