Senior Test Analyst

at  Auto General Insurance

People Leadership

• Celebrate success whilst promoting a culture of high performance
• Act as a role model by demonstrating our values and influencing how they are lived within your team
• As a Senior Test Analyst, demonstrate your capacity to self-manage and positively influence those around you
• As a Senior Test Analyst, be an active contributor in improving our testing practices and process.
• Demonstrate and share your testing skills and technique to help uplift our testing capabilities.
• Be a responsible role model by adhering to company policies and employment laws, and ensure relevant HR procedures are applied (including Safety, Wellness and Health, Workplace Behaviour and Performance Improvement frameworks)
• Pair with Test Analyst to help develop and enable ongoing capability improvements.
• Pair with Test Analyst on test planning, estimations, and test coverage
• Collaboration with Test Analysts, and Business SMEs to build regression suite
• Pair with Automation Analyst and help support the automation of regression suites.
• Stakeholder Engagement - Active participation and representation of testing requirements.
• Provide out of hours support during Production Testing
• Advocate for quality and continuous improvements across testing and delivery.

Role Accountabilities

• Represent testing and contribute to all Flow Delivery workshops (eg. concept, planning, estimation)
• Collaborate with Test Analyst, Developers, SM, POs, BAs, and Business SMEs from concept to delivery.
• Collaborate and pair with all members of the E2E team to define and break down Acceptance Criteria.
• Collaborate and pair with members of the E2E team to produce test estimates, assumptions, dependencies, and risks for each initiative.
• Collaborate and Pair with Test leads, and test analysts to produce a comprehensive test coverage and traceability matrix.
• Produced Test Plan/Test Strategy for project within own team, as well as projects with multiple application dependencies.
• Can support the test lead in coordinating and facilitating test planning across multiple teams.
• Good understanding of Functional and Non Functional quality attributes
• Understanding the requirement and breaking them down into individual actions and tasks for delivery
• Upskilling and Learning the associated business rules, guidelines, and applications
• Plan and Design Test cases to ensure that requirements are met, ensuring test coverage takes into consideration positive, negative, and regression impacts.

ABOUT US

At Auto & General (A&G), we provide smarter products and solutions to safeguard our customers in their time of need. Our range of general insurance products protect customers on the road, at home and on holiday with various Car, Motorcycle, Home, Contents, Pet and Travel Insurance products as well as Roadside Assistance.
Our culture of ‘ high performance with high integrity’ underpins our values and the way we interact with our customers, the community and each other. We’re excited about the future and we’re always on the lookout for talented, passionate individuals who can help us achieve our goal of being Australia’s best insurer! If this sounds like you, apply today.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Participate proactively in all sprint ceremonies: daily stand ups; story grooming; team retrospectives; showcases, workshops and planning sessions;
• Suggest and implement product and process improvements;
• Work with Product Owners to define Acceptance Criteria and the Definition of Done and ensure that they are met in the testing space;
• Work with End To End Team in elaborating stories and providing estimates;
• Create and execute test cases raising defects in the approved manner;
• Peer review test cases of other testers;
• Provide mentoring and support to less experienced testers;
• Keep Test Lead appraised of progress, risks and issues in sprint work and project planning and document accordingly;Participate in pre deployment testing and rostered overnight deployments as necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

· Experience in testing in an Agile environment (including System, Integration, Acceptance, Usability testing);
· Experience in preparing test artefacts (including test plans, test designs, test cases, test executions, defects);
· Analytical, with attention to detail and problem-solving skills;
· Ability to work in a structured manner in line with documented procedures;
· Proven ability to work in a small team with a shared goal, being able to use your time management skills to multi-task in a fast-paced dynamic environment;
· Willingness to take ownership of issues arising;
· Experience of using Jira / Confluence
· Working knowledge of common application software, e.g. MS Office suite / Google Suite;
· High level of IT literacy and demonstrated ability to learn new systems;
· Understanding of the types and value of automation in a blended environment;
One of the following qualifications would be highly regarded, but not essential:
· Testing Qualification (e.g. ISTQB) preferred;
· Agile Qualification preferred;
· Tertiary qualifications in IT or business-related discipline;
· Experience of using recognised test management tools or Jira test management Add-ins;
· Experience and understanding of device testing using physical and virtual devices;

OUR PERKS

• Location –Our office is conveniently based in Toowong Village shopping centre - a city fringe location with access to retail, restaurants, various parking options and public transport.
• Extra leave - Enjoy additional leave days on us! You’ll receive a paid ‘ME’ day and one paid volunteer leave day annually. Team members can also purchase up to two additional weeks of leave per year.
• Paid parental leave - We support our new parents with paid parental leave and other benefits.
• Workplace giving - If you’re passionate about a cause, then we are too – we offer workplace giving and we’ll dollar match your donations to registered charities.
• Development opportunities - We’re championing your development with internal programs and access to a wide range of online courses.
• Employee discounts - You’ll receive discounts on Budget Direct insurance products.
• Reward and recognition - We reward high performance with employee recognition, reward and incentive schemes.
• Onsite facilities - There’s excellent end-of-trip facilities on offer and private spaces for nursing mothers.
• Get social - Join our vibrant social and community activities including annual celebrations, family fun days and regular events across each of our sites.
• WFH - The Technology team operate a hybrid WFH Model, two days WFH, three days in the office.
  If you are seeking a new challenge and would enjoy the opportunity to work in a growing and changing business, click on the APPLY NOW button and submit your application.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The newly created role in our application support team will be responsible for the following:

• Ensure application changes meet both business specification and customer journey requirements;
• Ensure that both testing industry and A&G test community of practice practices and approaches are applied to testing activities;

• Work closely with the Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to understand business expectations and constraints, provide regular updates on progress of testing in an Agile environment;Define the risk-based and requirements-based testing scope to ensure the solution is fit for purpose;

Role Accountabilities

• Represent testing and contribute to all Flow Delivery workshops (eg. concept, planning, estimation)
• Collaborate with Test Analyst, Developers, SM, POs, BAs, and Business SMEs from concept to delivery.
• Collaborate and pair with all members of the E2E team to define and break down Acceptance Criteria.
• Collaborate and pair with members of the E2E team to produce test estimates, assumptions, dependencies, and risks for each initiative.
• Collaborate and Pair with Test leads, and test analysts to produce a comprehensive test coverage and traceability matrix.
• Produced Test Plan/Test Strategy for project within own team, as well as projects with multiple application dependencies.
• Can support the test lead in coordinating and facilitating test planning across multiple teams.
• Good understanding of Functional and Non Functional quality attributes
• Understanding the requirement and breaking them down into individual actions and tasks for delivery
• Upskilling and Learning the associated business rules, guidelines, and applications
• Plan and Design Test cases to ensure that requirements are met, ensuring test coverage takes into consideration positive, negative, and regression impacts