What’s the role?

The role is required to lead a small team and refine and implement the Automation Strategy across several platform teams, expanding the automation footprint to a high level of maturity. The role will require senior stakeholder management, presenting and reporting.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Senior stakeholder management, presenting and reporting ROI & complex metrics

• Manage automation resources to automate progression and regression test cases

• Adopt and drive an Automation 1st Policy

• Hiring Automation resources as required

• Build a centralised Automation Community of Practice to support teams with automation maturity

• Build out automation, hands on, applying best practices, ensuring roadmap milestones are met

• Increase coverage with automation assets compared to manual assets

• Set up Production automation and automated reporting to stakeholders

• Refine the existing Automation framework. Define and implement roadmaps that deliver on expected automation outcomes for all teams

• Recommend improvements such as open source tooling and resource requirements to provide cost benefits

Who are you?

• Solid working knowledge of code branching and sequencing

• Extensive experience working with Github and multiple automation tools such as Appium, Selenium, Playwright

• Strong negotiation skills with a desire to innovate

• Solid understanding of technology operations and strategy

• Extensive experience leading teams both on and offshore, hiring automation resources as

• Project Management experience is not required but beneficial

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and a strong ability to manage senior relationships

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

• Proactive, high attention to detail, with ability to meet aggressive deadlines with commitment to quality

• Team player, willing to help where and when needed

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

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?

We are Australia’s number one and most influential media organisation with more than 150 prestige brands across news, sport and lifestyle. Each month more than 17 million Australians choose to consume news and information from our digital and print products – more than any other media group in Australia.

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

We are proud to be Australia’s most impactful media group, we’re even prouder of what we stand for: Together, we inform, advocate and inspire all Australians, for a better Australia.

With over 150 brands across news, sport and lifestyle, backed by a team of more than 5,000 dedicated people across the country, News Corp Australia is trusted by over 17 million Australians a month to provide the information and inspiration they seek across multiple digital, video, audio and print platforms.

Renowned for world-class journalism and marketing services nationally and internationally, we are passionate, creative and dynamic. We offer a fast-paced environment that encourages individuals to take control of their future and challenge themselves in ever-changing fields.