Senior Test Automation Engineer - Max Term until 30th June 2026

ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you're joining a company with a strong purpose - to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you'll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We're proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we're committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Your Team

This position is within the Securities & Payments (S&P) Technology testing team, and will have the primary responsibility for conducting functional and non-functional tests on applications within the S&P Line of Business (LOB) applications. The S&P testing team comprises 15 members who specialize in supporting deliverables across various services like Debt & Collateral, Payments, Issuer Services, and Equity Post Trade. You will focus on the Debt& Collateral applications, working closely with a team of 3 testers and collaborating with technology teams & delivery teams on all initiatives within the Program of work and across LOB.

You are a practitioner/team member of the Quality Engineering and Testing Capability Community of Practice (CoP).

Your responsibilities

• Responsible for test design, using own in-depth technical analysis of functional and non-functional specifications, requirements and solution architecture.
• Design, code, verify, amend and refactor test automation code and scripts.
• Design, build and maintain a test automation suite using inhouse built automation tool.
• Ensure traceability records exist from tests back to requirements.
• Assist the Test Manager/Test Lead in test planning and specifying requirements for test environments, test data and tools.
• Work closely with BAs, Developers, Support Analysts and Business Stakeholders to ensure understanding of the requirements and to communicate test status and issues.
• Learn and use of automation tools developed internally and externally
• Contribute to the selection of the test automation approach for projects.
• Apply agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
• Participate in reviews of own work and lead reviews of colleagues' work.
• Responsible for interpreting and executing complex test scripts, analysing results and maintaining a defect register.
• Provide reports on progress, anomalies and risks & issues associated with the overall project or release. You'll also report on system quality and collect metrics on tests and results.
• Support and implement the ASX Software Testing Policy and Guidelines within the context of the assigned work and tools used. Create and maintain relevant documentation.
• Being an active member of the QE&T Community of Practice (CoP).

Your experience and qualifications

Must have

• A minimum of 10 years' experience in software testing.
• Experience/Exposure in test automation and automation principals and strategies.
• Experience in different phases of testing and writing test cases for system, system integration, regression, end-to-end, UAT, IWT & parallel testing etc.
• Experience in test environment and test data setup.
• Experience with test management tools such as JIRA and confluence.
• Proven experience in test design based on in-depth technical and requirements analysis.
• Have about 3 to 4 years of experience in test automation ex. SpecFlow, UFT etc. or Java, Python based tools. Or coding experience in JAVA or C# programming, BDD Framework.
• Use of different Test management tools QTest or similar.
• Worked in an environment with a structured test process, performing automated System and System Integration testing.
• Worked in financial industry and understand the concepts of clearing and settlement services
• Worked in an environment with a structured test process, performing System and System Integration testing.
• Worked as part of an agile, cross-functional team.
• Worked as part of medium to large sized project teams.
• Created and maintained automated test code and scripts, run automated tests and interpreted & reviewed results from automated test runs.
• Had exposure to testing at the UI and the API level.
• Had exposure to SQL query writing and have basic database skills.
• Had exposure to XML or other message parsing.
• Knowledge of or hands-on experience with CI related processes and tools.
• Understanding of different Non-Functional Testing concepts.
• Ability to multi-task and be comfortable with frequently changing priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience with Cucumber or Specflow
• Exposure to non-functional testing, such as performance and load testing.
• Capital markets domain experience.
• Experience with testing micro-services and/or container-based architectures.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols, such as FpML, SWIFT or FIX.
• Created or contributed to automated test frameworks.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Continuous improvement mindset.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you'll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the criteria of this role.

If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at [email protected].

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.