Principal Consultant (Performance Testing & Test Automation)

at  Datacom

Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
The Nuts and Bolts
We have over 6,500 people across our offices, and generate an annual revenue of over $1.49 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 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 creative in your approaches and be able to implement solutions that require the use of multiple tools and technologies.

• Implement, improve and augment performance test scripts using JMeter, NeoLoad, Load Runner, GraphQL, and similar tools.
• Creating and implementing test automation framework using Selenium, Rest Assured, Rest Sharp, playwright and similar tools
• Programming languages: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, Typescript Agile mindset and experience of working on projects following SCRUM

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

Please refer the Job description for details