**What’s the role?**
As a member of the QA Automation team, you will report directly to the Head of Automation and play a pivotal role in executing the QA Automation Strategy across various domains within NewsCorp Australia’s Technology, Digital & Data sectors. This role is ideal for engineers who are in the early stages of their careers, providing them with the chance to contribute to a growing and centralised Automation Practice team. The team is focused on expanding the automation footprint to achieve a high level of maturity across multiple platform teams, ensuring that automation processes are seamlessly integrated and optimised.
Your responsibilities will include assisting in the design and implementation of automation processes and maintaining existing automation systems to validate code changes, boosting productivity and quality. The role is split with 80% automation tasks and 20% manual testing, ensuring that both automated and manual testing methods are utilised to achieve comprehensive validation and quality assurance. This exposure will provide valuable insights and experience in the latest advancements within the industry.
**Responsibilities**
+ Developing and executing automated test cases
+ Gathering reporting metrics for the Automation Manager
+ Drive an Automation 1st Policy within the team
+ Applying best practices, working with the broader team to deliver on roadmap milestones.
+ Help set up production automation and automated reporting to stakeholders.
+ Identify opportunities for improvement, including open source tooling and resource optimisation.
+ Supporting AI Automation Proof of Concept Exploration
**Who are you?**
+ You have a graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
+ You have been working in a QA automation team as a grad or entry level automation engineer and are ready to move to the next level.
+ 1 – 2 years hands-on experience in an automation engineering role, with exposure to automation processes, using tools like GitHub, Playwright and Appium and languages such as Python and/or Typescript
+ You are familiar with automated regression and progression tests across digital platforms
+ You are eager to learn and grow in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
+ You are committed to quality and innovation, with a keen interest in continuous improvement
**News Benefits**
News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:
+ **Exclusively ours** – Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
+ **Health & wellbeing** – Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
+ **Time off** – News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
+ **Helping you grow** – Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion – focused education series) and recognition
+ **Financial wellbeing** – Support on making the most of your money
+ **Perks & discounts** – Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
+ **Giving back** – Make a difference to our communities.
+ **Workplace Inclusion and facilities** – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms
**Who are we?**
In an evolving media industry our brands continue to drive the story and influence the agenda – 7.4 million Australians read one of our national, metro or regional paid daily titles a week. We are proud to be the greatest storytellers in Australia. Our products are innovative and dynamic, constantly adapting to new challenges and pioneering the way forward to lead the market. A fast paced and ever changing environment requires adequate, robust and reliable business systems and processes which play a vital part in our success.
**What’s next?**
Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers
**Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion** _We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know._
**_If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please feel free to let us know. For more information regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NewsCorp Australia please visit_** www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers **_under the DEI section._**
**Category:**
Technology, Digital and Data
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