Opportunity to join this exciting position in a quickly growing Software group!

With over 4,800 people, and revenues of over $1.1 billion, Datacom is one of Australasia's largest professional IT services companies. Datacom has extensive expertise in the operation of data centers, the provision of IT services, software engineering and management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations. Founded in 1965 and operating across Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the US, Datacom has a successful trading history of consistent growth, profitability and a track record of delivering innovative, cost effective technology solutions.

Our software team in Sydney is going from strength to strength with a focus on developing strategic and leading edge solutions for our customers across many industries.

Reporting directly to Application Change Manager delivering innovative solutions for a government sector client, we are seeking an experienced Senior Test Analyst to join our professional, fun and friendly project team environment on a Permanent role. Immediate Start in Sydney!

In this role your key deliverables will be:

  • Ability to clearly document and articulate the following : Test Plans, Test Approach, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Summary Report and contribution to production deployment plan and activities
  • End-to-end testing experience (Test Analysis, Design, Execution, Defect Management and Reporting)
  • Hand-on experience in Test execution using Manual and Automation test techniques
  • Creating and reviewing test scripts to be incorporated into test plan, requirements analysis and ensuring full requirement coverage & traceability
  • Taking ownership for system test activities and performing functional, integration and regression testing in an AGILE/iterative environment
  • Ability to schedule and develop a work plan in order to work with relevant business users to ensure testing is undertaken in a timely manner
  • Ability to highlight and drive issues forward from identification through to resolution
  • Liaising with Business leads, BA's & SME's to understand the requirements
  • Ability to work well with minimal supervision with tight timelines and deadlines
  • Work collaboratively with the development team throughout the build process to ensure the product follows the requirements

To be considered for this exciting role, you will need to have:

  • At-least 7-9 years of testing experience
  • Solid knowledge of relevant technology concepts
  • Experience in JIRA and VSTS
  • Web application testing
  • Experience with Performance testing is much desirable
  • Automation experience (Selenium/C#) is much desirable using Page Object Model, Synchronisation,
  • Knowledge of DevOps concept of CICD – VSTS/Octopus/GIT/Jenkins
  • Database testing skills – SQL or Oracle much desirable
  • Web service API testing – SOAP or POSTMAN is desirable
  • Experience in BDD using Cucumber and Gherkin desirable
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal and analytical skills