Test Automation Engineer
ASX Limited3 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business analysts, developers, support analysts, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and technical scope.
- Investigate defect causes, verify fixes, identify and log bugs, and maintain defect registers.
- Create and maintain automated test code, scripts, frameworks, and testing tools.
- Plan tests and specify test environments, test data, and tool requirements.
- Execute automated, system, system integration, UI, API, and non-functional tests and interpret their results.
- Maintain test traceability, testing records, assumptions, results, and production release signoffs.
- Support and implement ASX software testing policies and guidelines.
- Improve testing efficiency, speed, and coverage through automation.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building automation frameworks, scripts, and tools.
- Experience performing automated system and system integration testing within a structured development process.
- Proven automation design experience based on technical and requirements analysis.
- Experience with UI- and API-level automation and contribution to automated test frameworks.
- Experience working in an Agile, cross-functional team and with Continuous Integration tools.
- Basic database skills and experience writing SQL queries.
- Exposure to XML, AVRO, or other message parsing formats.
- Experience with GitLab, Nexus, SonarQube, Cucumber, Selenium, Playwright, Mockito, or RestAssured.
- Strong programming and scripting skills with Java, PowerShell, or Python.
- Experience with testing microservices or container-based architectures.
- Knowledge of messaging protocols such as SWIFT, JSON, XML, or FIX.
- Exposure to performance and load testing.
- Capital markets experience, including stocks and shares, derivatives markets, or clearing processes, is valued.
- Candidates must be legally authorised to work permanently in Australia without restrictions.
Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid working options are available, including consideration of part-time or other flexible arrangements.
- Background checks, including reference and police checks, are completed during onboarding.
- Workplace diversity, inclusion, employee-led networks, wellbeing initiatives, giving, and volunteering programs are supported.
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.