Organization: At CommBank, we're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.
Job Title: Staff Quality Engineer
Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid)
Business & Team:
The CBA technology unit delivers the best digital banking services to Commonwealth Bank customers and to do so is responsible for digital delivery, group data and analytics, technology and technology infrastructure, cyber, fraud, physical security and business resilience for all divisions across CBA. It is also dedicated to delivering the best workplace technology experience for our over 53.000 people across CBA and focused on providing the latest tools, technology, and resources to enhance the way we work together and empower our people to achieve more for our customers.
CommSec is Australia's largest online retail stockbroker. It is one of the most highly visible and visited online assets in Australian financial services. CommSec’s systems utilise a variety of technologies and support a broad range of investors. Software engineers within CommSec are offered regular opportunities to work on some of the finest IT systems in Australia, as well as having opportunity to develop careers across different functions and teams within the wider Bank.
Impact & contribution:
You will be guiding an entire squad around Quality Engineering best practices and effectively strategize, plan and estimate test deliverables to ensure system enhancements/fixes are stable, reliable and available for customers by delivering on time and to budget. You will be accountable for the ongoing development of test automation assets by adopting best engineering practice and innovative approach in experimenting with emerging tools and technologies.
You will continuously seek and create opportunities to further enhance the test engineering capability which will advance our Continuous Delivery capability.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Quality Management in Project Delivery.
- Provide guidance and technical direction on the test strategy, approach and planning towards the design, implementation and maintenance of test assets in support of the delivery of Digital solutions
- Facilitate and support scrum teams to analyses & understand solution designs, capture requirements and system dependencies in an Agile environment that contribute directly or indirectly to the development & coding, testing, debugging, maintenance and documentation of application programs to ensure applications are built and perform to specification correctly and user needs are met.
- Collaborate closely with scrum teams within portfolio to promote best QA engineering practices in support of testing activities and project delivery.
- Focal point of communication on the quality assurance of project delivery with internal & external stakeholders
- Identify, mitigate or prevent, if possible, risks and issues associated with customer impacts, technical delivery and quality assurance as part of project work
- Provide insight to solution design and architecture from quality assurance perspective including both functional and non-functional attributes
- Deliver and drive Test Automation strategy and ensure adoption within scrum teams. Use your knowledge of automation tools and best practices to facilitate progression automation
- Ensure that key automation deliverables are reported on and communicated with business stakeholders
- Collaboratively research, consult, analyse and evaluate QA technical delivery needs, and seek or create opportunities for improvements by identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods.
- Proactively cultivate innovation through experimentation of tools, techniques and technology to enhance QA engineering capability and influence desired behaviour & cultural changes.
- Promote and advocate the adoption of best QA practices in Agile contributing to product development.
- Identify areas of risk and implement ideas and innovation to overcome challenges and blockers.
- Review the tools and processes used for Automation and ensure that improvements and identified and implemented across all teams.
Essential Skills:
- 12+ years of proven & demonstrable experience in the development of Agile test strategy adopting best QA engineering practice, risk-based prioritisation approach and strong focus on test automation in support of Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Detailed technical understanding of software development & testing practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)and life cycles and demonstrable experience to simplify & streamline testing processes in an Agile environment.
- Proven & demonstrable ability to elaborate and articulate complex technical problems to non-technical stakeholders, and to challenge the norm regardless of disciplines when required
- Proven & demonstrable experience and kills in QA governance & management for Digital project delivery through effective use of data trending analytics and metrics
- Strong understanding of delivery methodology such as Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps
- Strong understanding of continuous integration technologies
- Strong understanding of virtualisation & containerisation tools
- Strong understanding of large-scale enterprise application architecture and technologies
- Detailed & current technical understanding of functional test automation framework including both mainstream commercial and open-source tools
- Proven experience & ability to learn and apply industry best patterns and practices from QA engineering standpoint for mobile & web application stacks
- Proven & demonstrable experience & ability to supervise and inspire teams to solve complex technical problems
- Proven & demonstrable experience in leading a team of engineers to support software development tasks such as to design, develop, modify, document, test, implement, install and support software applications and systems.
Education Qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree/Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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What We Do
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services.
We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances.
