Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer (Performance Testing) - Contractor

Our Purpose

Here at Datacom, we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

The Details

We have over 6,200 people across our global offices, and generate an annual revenue of over $1.2 billion, this makes us one of Australasia’s largest professional IT services companies. We have extensive expertise in operating data centres, providing IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations. With this comes a long list of significant clients Datacom is committed to hiring, developing and promoting the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability.

The Opportunity

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer – Performance testing within the Professional Services team your skills will be used across a wide breadth of challenging projects.

About the Role

This is an excellent opportunity to join a diverse and dynamic solution provider with a huge range of clients and high-level in-house expertise. We adhere to agile principles and deliver using modern technologies, the latest development tools, and practices, and always put customer value first.

Your talent is critical to help us with our performance testing engagements and to drive modern performance engineering thinking and practice in our clients. You may be a member of a performance engineering team, or you may be leading the team depending on the engagement. In order to create performance test scripts, you will also bring a history of great testing practices and truly understand how performance fits into the wider QA strategy.

What skills do we need?

To earn a place on our team you must be able to implement, improve and augment performance test scripts using JMeter, NeoLoad, GraphQL, and similar tools. You must be creative in your approaches and be able to implement solutions that require the use of multiple tools and technologies.

You must demonstrate strong leadership experience, having been successful in a similar role before to lead the project teams through the performance testing and optimization journey. You must have strong performance test experience spanning several years across a variety of tools and platforms.

We will ask you to show us your:

• Proven knowledge of the proper performance requirements analysis and test script development across a variety of tools and environments.
• Ability to analyse a project, determine the optimal tool set, implement a benchmark test and present the results.
• Proven ability to deliver quality results in a busy and dynamic business-focused environment.
• Knowledge of good software development practices and current methodologies and tools.
• Ability to contribute to developing performance testing skills and knowledge within the wider team.
• Dedication to improvement via training, certifications or self-study.

Why Datacom?

At Datacom we believe that doing good, is good for business. We’ve maintained our local family feel whilst expanding globally, across Australia and ASIA. Our brand and reputation depend on ‘proving the promise’ and we aspire to be the trusted advisor for our customers across Government and the private sector from enterprise scale to regional business. We offer our staff a competitive salary package, fantastic perks and benefits like healthcare, life insurance, discounts at local retailers and a supportive, flexible working environment. If you want to join a company making a difference, apply now!

We have over 6,500 people across our global offices, and generate an annual revenue of over $1.48 billion, this makes us one of Australasia’s largest professional IT services companies. We have extensive expertise in operating data centres, providing IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations. With this comes a long list of significant clients Datacom is committed to hiring, developing and promoting the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability.