QA ENGINEER - BRISBANE OFFICE - HYBRID WORKING ARRANGEMENT

Digital Water Experts

ADASA is a unique IT company providing solutions with a vision to support water businesses and public agencies to drive transparency and ensure sustainable water management across Australia. Water is our world’s greatest resource and requires new solutions to manage it better in a world of increasing demand and limited resources. In the last ten years, we have designed and built water information systems and services to clients that have improved access and comprehension to water information, encouraged the more efficient use of the resources available, boosted water user compliance, improved the effectiveness of their operations and enabled operations staff and the public to make more informed planning decisions.

Together with our parent company SKion Water, we help public and private organisations around the world to respond to the demands of integrated water resource management, urban water systems, and water-related natural disasters. We build innovative solutions that link the physical and digital world, using data and advanced digital technologies. Our aim is to help our customers unlock the full value of data to provide descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive insights.

Adasa has customers in more than 30 countries and is present in Australia since 2011 with offices in Sydney and Brisbane. Our local team consists of business consultants, full-stack software developers, data engineers, and data scientists.

About the project

We are building powerful software tools that provides insight to water users to help them make more informed planning decisions and help our community to understand how water is used, shared, traded, and managed.

For doing this, we use Agile project methodologies that help us to increase the development and speed, expand collaboration, and foster the ability to better respond to market trends.

About the role

This role ensures the team delivers excellence by testing the data coming into and flowing through the solution.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and execute complex test cases for Functional/Non-functional testing, integration and regression testing, within the Data Provisioning workstream.
• Managing all phases of the software testing process in creating test cases, defect management process including raising defects, classification and reporting.
• Collaborate with DevOps team, business analysts, test team to understand and examine the user stories and business requirements for validity and feasibility.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies including daily stand up, sprint planning and retrospective meetings.

Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualifications in Computer science, IT or a related field (highly desirable)
• ISTQB or comparable certification (Desirable)

Technical skills:

• Strong expertise in testing activities such as design and execute test cases (includes analysing requirements at an early stage of development to write test cases), performing system, integration, performance testing, compatibility and end to end testing.
• Strong expertise in Postman or similar tools.
• Providing detailed analysis of all testing carried out on the environment ensuring all bugs and issues are logged, tracked and reported during all phases of testing.
• Demonstrated experience in using tools like Azure DevOps, Confluence and Jira.
• Prior experience working on testing within a data focused team, and API testing are both highly desirable.
• Experience with automation tools and frameworks (selenium based technologies)
• Experience in deployment of front-end testing and development.
• Project testing experience using industry-standard test methodologies and tools.
• Experience in Agile Development environments.
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in testing Enterprise, line-of-business solutions

Soft Skills:

• Creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non- functional specifications.
• Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases and review tests results, modifying tests if necessary.
• Highly developed communication skills, both written and verbal, including an ability to prepare high level reports.
• Capacity to engage constructively and respectfully with individuals of diverse backgrounds and abilities to achieve high quality outcomes.