Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV) is the statutory authority responsible for regulating, conducting and promoting greyhound racing in Victoria, a sport that annually generates around $500 million in economic activity and over $3 billion in wagering and directly involves over 15,000 people. Our vision is “Victorian Greyhound Racing is a vibrant, entertaining and thriving sport with animal welfare at its heart.”

About the Opportunity

The Automated Test Lead will contribute to the effective rendition of business requirements into high quality solutions for the organisation's web and internal business systems. They will contribute to the consulting, analysis and test automation development services throughout development ensuring a robust solution is delivered for both customer acceptance testing and production. The role has the following key areas of focus:

Test Planning and Execution – Ability to effectively translate the business requirements into test cases, execute test scripts, provide test estimates and use defect management tools.

Automation Planning and development – Leading and mentoring the QA team to define and drive advanced automated testing approaches and tools into the overarching development processes to further support and enhance the current Quality Assurance processes. The candidate will also lead and mentor the team in the development of automated scripts using best practice test automation tools and frameworks to establish and grow GRV's test automation capability and apply knowledge of continuous integration and delivery principles wherever applicable.

As the Automated Test Lead, you will be expected to have well developed technical skills and knowledge. You will be expected to work autonomously and demonstrate initiative.

About You

We are seeking candidates who has:

• 4+ years of work experience in a similar role
• Expert in Manual testing processes and strategies
• Exposure to working on mobile application testing, cross- browser testing and API testing 
• Working experience in commercial automation tools (Protractor, Selenium WebDriver, Appium etc)
• Sound working experience in use of and maintaining automated functional test frameworks 
• Fair exposure to Agile work culture
• Working Experience in JIRA  
• Good knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular JS, CSS, HTML, Azure Devops and Jenkins 
• Working experience with TSQL, MSSQL and Postgres 

Conditions & Benefits

GRV is committed to continuing to find new ways to contribute to our people's employment life cycle. Benefits provided include:

• ongoing professional development
• Strong team culture and well supported in your role
• Employee Assistance Program
• comprehensive Wellbeing Program
• discounted Health Insurance and other corporate discounts

To apply, go to the careers.vic.gov.au website, search Greyhound Racing Victoria, select the position and click ‘apply now'. Your application must include a cover letter addressing the selection criteria (skills, knowledge, experience) and a copy of your resume, by close of business Sunday, 3 July 2022.

For more information, contact Nicole Hassall, P&C Business Partner at nhassall@grv.org.au

Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV) is committed to building a workplace that not only respects but embraces difference and sees diversity as an essential part of our success. GRV is an organisation that is driven by values and strives for a culture of inclusion where all people feel respected, valued, listened to, inspired and that they belong.

All offers of Employment will be subject to a satisfactory police check

All employees must reside in Australia and have the right to work in Australia