QA Engineer - FTC 11 Months

• Role Context

  We are looking for a talented, cloud-tech enthusiast to join our Cognitive Software Engineering team. The CSE team is a tight-knit, high-performing team that is responsible for building leading edge cloud solutions in AWS that accelerate and improve various aspects of our policy holder’s user experience.

  The ideal candidate will be someone who is looking to future-proof their career in cloud technology and will have some experience in applying test strategies for microservices.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Functional, workflow, and end-to-end testing of cloud data solutions. Including creation of automated tests where it makes sense.
  • Provide best practice, shift-left coaching to developers to promote defensive coding habits.
  • Facilitate example mapping sessions to help build complete picture of user story requirements.
  • Contribute to the creation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.

  Skills and experience

  Below is an overview of the skills and experience we are looking for, but remember, don’t rule yourself out if you don’t have everything on the list – it’s your intellect and your attitude we are really after.

  Essential

  • 3+ years of IT experience in any client-server design/development
  • Experience with targeted test automation strategies
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work well within a team environment, maximising the different strengths across the team
  • Key technology experience required for the role: any test automation tools, preferably Robot Framework, GIT

  Desirable

  • Experience with different types of Agile project delivery
  • Experience testing cloud data tools such as AWS, Snowflake and Infoworks
  • Other valuable technologies: PyTest, Java, REST-based API, object-oriented concepts, and GIT

  So that’s us. Thanks for taking the time to read this far. We look forward to hearing from you if you fancy joining a new tech innovation company with the agility of a start-up and the stability of a Fortune 500 U.S. company.

  Aflac is an equal opportunities employer