Principal Software Engineer – Quality Engineering and Testing (CommSec)
- You are a passionate quality engineering leader that loves building solutions at scale
- We are ambitious leading Quality best practices within Australia’s largest bank and fintech.
- Together, we will engineer the future of banking with innovative DevSecOps solutions
Do work that matters
As we continue our pursuit of NPS +30 we are building solutions and products to transform the way we engage with our customers and colleagues.
As the Principal Software Quality Engineer in CommSec, you will lead and contribute to the development of automation processes and capabilities, with a focus on streamlining attestation and reporting automation to uplift CommSec's quality engineering capabilities.
The ideal candidate will design, implement, and optimize scalable automation frameworks to ensure robust testing and reporting pipelines. You will be responsible to ensure implementation of high-quality standards and practices across all software development efforts.
See yourself in our team
As the Principal Software Engineer, you will build foundational quality processes that span development, testing, and deployment to ensure consistency and efficiency in delivery, driving high-quality standards and practices across all software development efforts.
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and quality first mindset within the engineering teams.
- Mentor team members on best practices for quality implementation and automation outcomes
- Develop, design, implement, and optimize scalable automation frameworks and comprehensive quality engineering strategy that aligns with organizational and engineering practice’s goals and business objectives.
- Engage with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to communicate the quality strategy, aligning on objectives and expectations.
- Ensure effective collaboration to drive quality initiatives forward and track their success across the business.
Tech Skills:
- Proven hands-on capability in leading, designing, executing and implementing automation frameworks and quality engineering strategies across diverse tehcnical teams.
- Strong coding skills in multiple programming languages, software development components and modern development tools (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, etc.)
- Experience with large-scale software systems in cloud-based environments with a focus on automation and quality assurance tools.
- Exposure to Agile and DevSecOps ways of working including continuous integration/continuous deployment, security practices.
- Demonstrated experience in managing and influencing stakeholders across multiple teams to drive quality initiatives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Working with us:
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you. At CommBank, we advocate and facilitate a culture of inclusion and respect, celebrating all cultures, abilities, genders, expressions of gender and sexual orientation. Read more about our commitment to inclusion and diversity on our careers website.
Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. We are working hard to recruit people who represent the diversity of our customers and our society. If you're excited about this opportunity but you don't meet every single requirement, or your experience doesn't align perfectly, we still want to encourage you to send in your application. You may just be the perfect candidate for this opportunity or another within CommBank.
At CommBank we will inspire you with work that makes a difference, surround you with talented people that respect and value each other, and empower you to grow professionally and personally. Most of all, making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.
We’re determined to make a real difference for Australia’s first peoples. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. If you’re already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including BankWest), you’ll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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What We Do
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services.
We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances.
