About the Role
We are looking to improve the operations of our business through the recruitment of an Automation Tester who will work with the quality assurance and product to evaluate new and existing features and automate tests to identify and help remove bugs, glitches and other user experience issues.
Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of test automation strategies and execution.
- Think like a developer to drive systematic quality improvements across the API, app, and UI layers in close collaboration with engineering, product, and UX teams.
- Build and maintain automated tests using Node.js, JavaScript with Mocha + WebdriverIO, and Appium.
- Design automation for complex, stateful workflows including authentication handling, session management, webhooks, and end-to-end validation.
- Collaborate with the QA team to automate testing for both newly developed features and existing functionality within the platform.
- Identify, log, and document software bugs and anomalies using bug-tracking tools to ensure timely resolution.
- Monitor, track, and assist in troubleshooting defects, working closely with developers and other stakeholders to resolve issues effectively.
- Participate in daily stand-ups and QA planning meetings to report on testing progress, communicate risks, and align on future tasks and priorities.
Requirements
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong team working, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
- 2+ years of hands-on Javascript coding experience and the ability to build/maintain test automation in a codebase (not just record/playback testing).
- Strong analytical skills and High attention to detail to assist in documenting and solutioning technical requirements.
- Demonstrated experience in automating complex API or UI workflows is required.
- Experience with NodeJS, Appium, Mocha, WebdriveIO.
- Demonstrated experience in authentication handling, session management, webhooks, and end-to-end validation.
- Must demonstrate deep understanding of how to design and execute automated tests that identify security vulnerabilities, including OWASP top 10 risks.
- Demonstrated knowledge of testing for and preventing exploit vectors across all application layers.
- Demonstrated experience in automating complex mobile applications both Hybrid and native is required.
- Experience in using JIRA to view and update testing tickets/requirements.
- Experience using Postman and Figma.
- Demonstrated experience in automating complex stateful API and UI workflows is required, and include authentication handling, session management, webhooks, and end-to-end validation.
Skills
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Mocha
- WebdriverIO
- Appium
- GitHub Copilot
- API testing
- UI testing
- Authentication handling
- Session management
- Webhooks
- End-to-end validation
- Security vulnerability testing
- OWASP top 10 risks
- Mobile application automation (Hybrid and native)
- JIRA
- Postman
- Figma
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- Benefits for you and your family
- Access to learning and development resources
- Shared parental leave
- Study assistance
- Sabbaticals
About the Company
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk.
- Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience.
- Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management.
- IDVerse is a Sydney-based company that is a global pioneer in the development of digital identity verification technology.
- We've built everything from the ground up and have a broad range of blue-chip customers across banking, telecommunications, government and more.
- We've perfected the technology locally in Australia and New Zealand and are quickly expanding into the northern hemisphere.
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