This is a hands-on senior contract with real ownership. You’ll own automation from unit and contract tests through CI/CD pipelines to production, and lead the performance, mocking and observability practices that squads across the wider Technology division build on.
The role
- Design, build and maintain automated test suites for REST APIs, microservices and integrations
- Validate API contracts and schemas (Swagger/OpenAPI, JSON/XML) and test API security
- Automate testing and deployment through CI/CD pipelines all the way to production
- Own performance testing and mocking/service virtualisation, and analyse results through to root cause
- Coach squads on instrumentation and observability, and contribute to the testing Guild
- Strong API test automation in Java 11+ and JUnit 5 (Rest Assured), with JavaScript/Node.js a strong advantage
- REST APIs, microservices architecture and API security, plus Postman, Bruno or SoapUI
- CI/CD with Bamboo or Jenkins, Docker, Gradle/Maven and Git/Bitbucket
- Performance testing (Gatling/JMeter) and mocking (Hoverfly, WireMock, MockServer)
- Observability tooling such as Splunk or New Relic, and experience with distributed tracing
Culture
- Agile/SAFe squads with a strong pairing culture, where you’ll pair with developers and step into other roles when needed
- An active testing Community of Practice/Guild you’ll contribute to
- Room to drive continuous improvement beyond your own team
- A customer focus that extends to colleague and partner experience
- $800 - $900 per day
- 6-month contract with view to extend]
- A senior role with influence across three squads and the wider Technology division
- Hybrid working from Sydney
