Senior Consultant - Automation QA

Are you a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Quality Analyst (QA) / SDET professional with a passion for ensuring top-notch product quality? Do you have a proven track record of driving excellence in testing processes and methodologies? If so, we have a captivating opportunity that awaits you!

Established over eighteen years ago, we are a growing Melbourne headquartered Software Consultancy with a core focus of delivering business-critical digital products to our clients. Our teams work alongside our customers to dissect their complex problems and convert them into value-driven solutions, combining innovative principles in development, design, analysis and quality automation. We utilise Design Thinking and Agile practices to rapidly create customer and business first software, testing and embracing new technologies and trends along the way.

Your Key Responsibilities As a Senior Consultant-QA At Fabric

The Senior Quality Analyst is responsible for working alongside teams and collaborating with different stakeholders to deliver projects with high quality and confidence. This includes building automation test frameworks, collaborating with BA and Product Owners in Analysis and coaching team members about quality, overall baking quality into the product.

Specific Duties Include

• Develop and implement automation test framework for web, API, and mobile applications that seamlessly integrates with CI pipelines.
• Conduct various types of testing including manual testing, API testing, database testing, and performance testing.
• Manage the entire defect lifecycle, from identification and tracking to resolution. Also, handle test data management to ensure accurate and effective testing.
• Take the lead in overseeing the QA process for the project, collaborating with other team members to ensure quality standards are met.
• Create reports on different QA metrics, providing insights and analysis on testing activities to stakeholders.
• Act as an ambassador for Fabric, promoting our values and best practices for building high-quality software.
• Participate in recruitment efforts and engage in community activities to contribute to the growth and development of Fabric.
• Generate thought leadership content relevant to your role to support our marketing department in social media activities and meetups
  
  

The Senior QA will apply their proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to both develop systems and resolve issues within them. They will ensure that the quality of the application and code is maintained and delivered within the estimated timeframe for our clients.

The skills you would need to be a Senior Quality Analyst:

• Experience in Object-oriented Programming and at least 1 programming language
• 7 to 8 years’ experience writing Automated Tests and building frameworks around it
• Should be able to create and build test plans and strategy, etc
• Experience with latest open-sourced automation and performance testing tools like Playwright, cypress, webdriver, Appium, Gatling
• Experience in automated API testing
• Experience in test data management, test environment management
• Good understanding of quality assurance processes
• Experience with integrating and executing tests with CI pipelines.
• Experience with cloud technologies: AWS or Azure or GCP
• Experience in testing web-services in an automated fashion
• Experience in XML, JSON messages, Postman
• Basic understanding of Dev-ops practices – Docker, K8s, terraform
• Experience in writing SQL queries
• Good collaboration, communication, collaboration, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in working in an Agile development environment
• Experience in coaching and mentoring team members
  
  

Your key benefits of being a part of the Fabric team:

• A variety of business domains to dive into including retail, finance, construction and logistics
• Creating innovative custom products to solve complex problems that existing solutions just can’t
• Collaborating with a team of top notch professionals who are obsessed with value, latest tech and the right way to build a digital product
• Ability to switch projects every 6-12 months to keep you challenged, excited and growing
• Strong support network from the delivery community of practice, leadership and our tech teams to help you address any client challenges you may face
• Very diverse and inclusive environment where people value feedback, connections and collaboration in a workspace
  
  

We bring together great talent and the best technology to unleash the full potential of our staff, customers and partners. Founded over eighteen years ago, Fabric has become the only software consultancy that focuses on value. We're a diverse and inclusive company that encourages passion, courage and innovation in all that we do.