Test Engineer
ASX Limited2 months ago
Sydney, AustraliaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and improve automated tests, reusable components, utilities, and execution assets.
- Support automated test execution through Git, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent delivery pipelines.
- Create and execute API, integration, regression, end-to-end, and release verification tests for ASX Trade and related market platforms.
- Apply programming, scripting, and automation design practices to create maintainable and documented test assets.
- Review requirements, acceptance criteria, and technical designs for testability, coverage, automation opportunities, and quality risks.
- Validate order flow, market data, interface behavior, and integration outcomes across FIX, ITCH, OUCH, APIs, messages, and data feeds.
- Prepare test data, validate environment dependencies, and support execution readiness across Linux/Unix and integrated test environments.
- Investigate automation failures, defects, environment issues, and data discrepancies using logs, pipeline output, database queries, messages, and technical evidence.
- Document test results, prepare release evidence, and support production-readiness sign-off activities.
- Log, investigate, and report defects with evidence, impact, severity, reproducibility details, and technical analysis.
- Contribute to testing standards, automation patterns, reusable components, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Use employer-approved AI tools responsibly to improve productivity, technical analysis, and test engineering outcomes.
Requirements
- 3–6 years of experience in test automation, quality engineering, or technical testing within medium to large technology environments.
- Hands-on Java automation experience developing and maintaining automated tests, reusable components, and framework assets.
- Working knowledge of Python and the ability to support or extend Python-based automation assets.
- Understanding of object-oriented programming, clean coding practices, and maintainable automation design.
- Hands-on API, integration, and backend testing experience using Postman, SoapUI, REST libraries, or equivalent frameworks.
- Experience with Cucumber, Gherkin, or behavior-driven test automation approaches.
- Experience using CI/CD pipelines and investigating failed automated test executions with Git, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent tooling.
- Good SQL capability for backend validation, reconciliation, and analysis of test results or datasets.
- Good Linux/Unix command-line capability and technical troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence for test management, defect management, traceability, and technical documentation.
- Ability to analyze business and technical requirements and identify test conditions, automation candidates, data needs, and quality risks.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical issues to engineering and business stakeholders.
- Experience in financial markets, exchanges, electronic trading, or market infrastructure is desirable.
- Knowledge of FIX, ITCH, OUCH, or related market protocols is desirable.
- Experience with Selenium, Playwright, containers, Kubernetes, cloud-native test execution, JMeter, Gatling, observability tools, service virtualization, API mocking, or test-data automation is desirable.
- Experience using AI responsibly in test engineering or automation productivity 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, accessibility, volunteering, and cultural and religious events.
- Successful candidates undergo background checks, including reference and police checks, during onboarding.
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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.