Swivel Group, headquartered in Australia is best known for building and implementing custom solutions for businesses to enable them to innovate, scale and compete at a global standard. We've been around since 2019, with a team growing beyond 160+ employees that help us challenge and innovate for our partners across the software, digital, and finance landscapes.

Our Brands: Swivel Tech, Swivel Finance, Swivel Talent, and Swivel Foundation

Role Description:

This role typically involves leading a team of automation engineers, overseeing the development and execution of automated tests, and ensuring the quality and efficiency of the test automation process.

Responsibilities:

· Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of automation engineers, providing guidance and support.

· Handle and resolve conflicts within the team and facilitate a collaborative work environment.

· Design and maintain test automation architecture and frameworks.

· Understand the Requirements (Business & Technical) and prepare test plans to achieve optimum testability.

· Contribute to product design and engineering, to ensure that products are designed and developed with quality in mind.

· Contribute test planning, test design, test execution to ensure quality throughout the entire product life cycle with minimal or no supervision.

· Regularly, ability to review testing plans and test cases to provide guidance for continuous improvement.

· Focused on delivering quality software products with better end-user experience.

· Identify opportunities for test automation and create automation test scripts to accelerate testing cycles with minimal or no supervision.

· Provides realistic and accurate estimates and achieve on-time Delivery.

· Ensures that artifacts produced are of the highest quality, conforming to set or agreed upon standards. Should advocate such consistency to all members of the team.

Years of Experience:

Minimum of 6 years of Quality Engineering experience is required. 5+ years of experience in automation and Minimum 2+ years of experience in leading teams.

We are looking for candidates working in a similar capacity as mentioned in the job description. However, we are open to consider candidates who have varying years of experience than stated if key job responsibility is automation.

Must Have Skills:

· Experience in a leadership or senior role, such as leading a team of automation engineers or managing automation projects.

· Software testing & quality engineering process experience: 5+ years

o Test planning

o Test design

o Test execution

o Reporting

· Test automation scripting and framework development: 5+ years

o Hands on experience in test automation scripting and framework development with at least 1 year specifically focused on Playwright

o Advanced understanding of Playwright, including its features, best practices, and limitations.

o Strong programming skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant language.

o Solid understanding of web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

o Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD).

· Experience with API testing: 3+ years

· Sound Knowledge of compatibility testing: 4+ years

· Experience with Agile Software Development

· Test case management tools and defect management tools

· SCM tools and CI/CD tools

Nice to Have Skills:

· Experience with Playwright’s Advanced Features.

· Performance Testing: Knowledge of performance testing principles and tools can help in integrating performance testing with Playwright automation.

· Experience with API testing and integration of API tests within the Playwright framework can be beneficial.

· Hands on experience in security testing.

Open to Upskill:

· Candidate should be open to upskill and move to emerging technologies and trends in quality engineering and test automation.

· Non – functional testing.

Required Attributes:

· Strong team leadership skills.

· Knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript and best practices in scripting.

· Ability to design and implement scalable and maintainable test automation strategies and frameworks.

· Strong interest in learning and ability to adapt to new technologies.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

· Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

· Ability to interact promptly and professionally with teams across different time zones.

Qualifications:

Individual should possess a bachelor's degree in computing, Information Technology, or other relevant field (physical science, mathematics)

Preferred Certifications:

ISTQB – Certified Foundation Level

ISTQB -Agile Tester

ISTQB Advanced Level - Test Manager

CSM (Certified Scrum Master)

Benefits

What We Can Offer You:

· A dynamic and supportive working environment

· Full medical benefits

· Training & Development

· Flexible and hybrid working arrangements

· Attractive remuneration

Work Culture

Swivel promotes a culture of positivity, openness, growth, collaboration, and fairness within our work environment. Individual development matters to us. We put in a sincere effort to help our team grow on professional and personal levels.

Swivel Values

Trust: a confident relationship in our staff, that would adhere to transparency and honesty in our dealings

Innovation: initiative, collaboration, challenging the industry and continuously evolving

Premium:Top talent, going above and beyond and treating your workplace as your own business

Respect:Everyone matters and so do their ideas

Team: Be supportive, welcoming, community, family-oriented and as strong as our weakest

Our Channels

Website - https://swiveltech.io

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/swivel.group/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/swivelgroupau

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/swivelgroupau/