Automation Engineer Melbourne

LGT is the largest Private Banking and Asset Management group in the world to be owned by an entrepreneurial family. As the family office of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, we have years of experience in the management of sizeable sums of assets.

We are looking for an Automation Engineer to join our Quality Engineering team within the broader Platform function on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract. As an Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring all Avaloq and other platforms' release deliveries are of the quality expected by the business users and can be released into production.

Your Responsibilities

• Involvement during the definition and design phases for change, contributing to overall solution.
• Support the creation of test plans and test cases for all functionalities to be developed, covering both application and broader business process testing.
• Tracking the test cases back to associated design and requirements documents.
• Collaboration with business SMEs and management to agree and sign off on the test approach.
• Execution of test plans and test cases, capturing of test results and associated evidence.
• Support the Platform team in identifying issues for failed or conditionally passed test cases.
• Support the broader business by ensuring stability of the UAT test environment and test connections to counterparties
• Execution of process improvements to the LGT test framework in alignment with DevOps principles
• Work with the Lead Quality Engineer to determine the management of standardised test data.
• Working across multiple platforms including Avaloq, data integration systems and APIs.

About You

• Experience tester across a range of products and processes within financial services or experience in validating financial services product rollouts within a business function.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and extensive knowledge of test automation tools (i.e. Selenium, Playwright, Testmaster, Tosca). Exposure to CI/CD environments is advantageous.
• Experience in test execution and coordinating End to End SWIFT message testing with counterparties is highly regarded.
• Experience in building and maintaining Test Automation framework.
• Experience in working within technology teams.
• Exposure towards traditional and Agile SDLC methodologies.
• Experience with the Avaloq or any other wealth management platform is highly regarded, along with a good understanding of wealth management processes and products.
• Solid experience within the financial services industry, particularly in wealth management, is highly beneficial.
• Qualifications in CompSci or related fields preferred.
• ISTQB and Agile certification such as CSM, CSPO, or SAFe Agilist (SA) is desired.