Automation Test Engineer
ASX Limited3 months ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based automated test frameworks and reusable automation components.
- Improve existing automation frameworks, execution processes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Build and maintain automated testing pipelines using Git, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent tooling.
- Review requirements with business analysts, developers, and product owners to improve clarity, testability, and automation readiness.
- Plan, develop, and execute automated and manual tests for ASX Trade and related market-platform changes.
- Validate market data, order flow, and interface behavior across FIX, ITCH, and OUCH protocols.
- Support system, system integration, regression, end-to-end, parallel, operational-readiness, and production-verification testing.
- Prepare test data, manage environment dependencies, and troubleshoot execution issues across Linux/Unix and integrated environments.
- Document test results, produce release evidence, and support release sign-off.
- Log, investigate, and report defects with clear impact, severity, evidence, and reproducibility details.
- Communicate test status, risks, and issues across technical and business teams.
- Contribute to automation standards, engineering practices, and continuous-improvement initiatives within the QE&T Community of Practice.
Requirements
- 7–9 years of automation testing experience, including API and integration testing across different protocols.
- Strong Java automation experience building reusable libraries, utilities, and maintainable frameworks.
- Working knowledge of Python and the ability to extend or support Python-based frameworks.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, clean coding practices, and framework design patterns.
- Experience with Cucumber, Gherkin, and behavior-driven test automation.
- Experience with system, system integration, regression, end-to-end, parallel, and release-verification testing.
- Hands-on experience with CI tools, CI/CD pipelines, setup, maintenance, and execution monitoring.
- Experience using Git, GitLab, or equivalent source-control and branching tools.
- Strong Linux/Unix command-line and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience coordinating test environments, preparing test data, and managing execution dependencies.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence for test management, defect management, and project documentation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain technical issues clearly.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and adapt within medium to large project teams.
- Financial-markets, exchange, electronic-trading, market-infrastructure, FIX, ITCH, OUCH, trading-platform, or broker-trading experience is desirable.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native test execution, performance or resilience testing, JMeter, Gatling, observability, service virtualization, API mocking, or test-data automation is desirable.
Benefits
- Flexible working and hybrid working options are available.
- Part-time and other flexible working arrangements may be considered even where roles are advertised as full-time.
- The employer supports diversity, inclusion, employee-led networks, wellbeing, giving, and volunteering initiatives.
- Successful candidates undergo background checks, including reference and police checks, during onboarding.
About ASX Limited
ASX Limited operates Australia’s primary securities exchange, providing listing, trading, clearing, settlement, market data, and connectivity across equities, derivatives, ETFs, and fixed income. It earns fees from listings, transactions, post‑trade services, and data/technology services for brokers, issuers, and investors. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Sydney, ASX runs central counterparty clearing and depository infrastructure and is widely ranked among the world’s larger exchanges by market capitalization.