Testing Engineer

Testing Engineer opportunity to join DXC's Perth Team! This role is responsible for planning and executing verification activities, identifying defects, and working closely with product, architecture, and development teams to ensure systems meet technical and performance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Verification Execution: Conduct verification activities to confirm system behaviour, integrity, and compliance with technical specifications.
• Test Development & Execution: Design and perform manual and automated tests, including functional, performance, reliability, scalability, hardware-in-the-loop, and exploratory testing, and document results.
• Defect Management: Identify, record, and track defects; collaborate with development teams to resolve technical issues across multiple layers of a distributed system.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with product owners, architects, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure verification efforts align with overall technical and delivery goals.
• Risk Mitigation: Contribute to identifying and addressing quality risks such as data integrity, network reliability, or system performance.
• Quality Metrics: Support the collection and reporting of quality metrics, helping measure system reliability, performance, and readiness.
• Reporting: Prepare clear, concise verification reports and provide updates on system quality and test progress.
• Training & Support: Assist in knowledge transfer, including providing guidance to support teams or contributing to training materials where required.

Skills & Experience

• Solid understanding of the product development lifecycle and the role of verification in ensuring system quality.
• Experience testing distributed, complex, or real-time systems.
• Proficiency in functional, automated, performance, reliability, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a structured approach to defect identification and resolution.
• Effective communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with automation tools or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Selenium, or similar) is desirable.