React Job: Quality Engineer Manager

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At Westpac, our vision is to be one of the world’s great service companies, helping our customers, communities, and people to prosper and grow. We are people helping people!

Our Enterprise Quality Services team is a core enabler of that vision and as such, we are responsible for ensuring the delivery of quality applications using consistent and effective quality engineering strategies that delight our customers. As a Quality Engineering community, we have a passion to cultivate high performing teams that build world class applications. Our team members are experienced thought leaders in this space, and we take pride in our collaborative approach to providing solutions.

We are looking for experienced, passionate, and highly driven Quality Engineering Manager, who is looking to step into a new and exciting opportunity to create, define and establish the testing and quality agenda for the Westpac Institutional Bank. The role will see you set a clear vision, directive and be comfortable in a complex work environment, impacting the outcome of business-critical software projects that cut across our proud legacy, and modern application architecture.

What will you do?

• Supporting our ways of working transformation that is helped by your deep understanding of Agile product development processes
• Using your communication and influencing skills to manage Quality outcomes from a rich and varied landscape of partners and providers
• Championing continuous improvement and identifying opportunities to simplify, re-use and automate
• Leveraging your strong understanding and thought leadership of Quality Engineering principles to help improve quality and test activities
• Build relationships with cross-functional teams to influence decisions, drive alignment and prioritisation
• Support the stakeholders and development teams in preparing for and executing the planning events
• Help teams identify risks and dependencies, manage escalations where required
• Act as a ‘servant leader’ to the EQS team members. Clearing the way, assisting them work through challenges, always leading by example

What’s in it for me?

You will play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our vision is to become one of the world’s great service companies. So, we will support you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You will also be backed by a fantastic team of people in a can-do, supportive structure.

What do I need?

• Institutional banking knowledge will be critical to success and help ensure you are able to hit the ground running.
• A passionate people leader who has lead members from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, running in multi speed and cadence delivery methods
• The ability to define and execute strategies that map the technology deliverables to the business goals
• Influential leadership and interpersonal skills that enable you to communicate and manage relationships across the organisation - from your reports, peers, stakeholders to senior executives.
• The ability to tell a story, ensuring you can translate complex technical solutions and advice into clear, specific information that is understood by all

Some of the technologies and patterns we work with include:

• JavaScript, ReactJS, Java, Microservices / API’s, UI Automation (Selenium / Cypress)
• Continuous delivery and DevOps, Containerisation, Automation, Amazon Web Services, ‘Evergreen’ platforms
• Complex and disparate non-production environments (modern & legacy) and data landscape

What is it like to work in Westpac?

As well as good pay and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth, and insurance benefits in the market. We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work. As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.

How do I Apply?

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As part of our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, this role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, people with a disability and Indigenous Australians to apply.

The health and wellbeing of our employees is our top priority. We’ve developed clear standards to ensure our people are confident, safe, and healthy whether they’re working from a Westpac Group site or working from home. These are based on expert medical advice and Safe Work Australia guidelines.

The Westpac Group has implemented an Entry to Workplace Policy that requires employees and others entering our workplaces to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by relevant dates set out in the policy (subject to applicable medical exemptions). Our employees are required to comply with the policy regardless of whether they are in customer-facing or non-customer-facing roles (as employees in non-customer-facing roles are required to attend the workplace under our Hybrid Working Strategy). Further, the Westpac Group is required to comply with State/Territory issued public health orders/directions which require relevant workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter workplaces.

By applying for this role, you acknowledge that you are aware of our Entry to Workplace Policy, and if your secure employment with us, you will be required to comply with the policy.