- Play a key role in building and scaling automated quality practices across a modern cloud, mobile and connected-device ecosystem
- Sydney-based role with a requirement to work from the Roseville office 4 days per week
- High-impact position working across engineering, product and platform teams with significant influence on product reliability, platform quality and customer experience
This is an opportunity to join a high-growth technology organisation undergoing significant investment in its platform, connected-device ecosystem and AI-enabled capabilities.
You'll take ownership of automation quality engineering across a suite of customer-facing products, helping ensure data, functionality and user experiences perform reliably across cloud applications, APIs and connected devices. The work is varied, technically challenging and highly visible, offering the opportunity to influence engineering practices and product quality at scale.
Benefit
- Exposure to AI-enabled products, platform modernisation initiatives and emerging technologies
- Opportunity to influence engineering standards, release quality and automation practices
- Work with modern tooling including Playwright, Python, GitHub Actions and AI-assisted development solutions
- Long-term growth opportunities as the engineering function continues to scale
As the QA Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for building, maintaining and continuously improving automated quality practices across a modern software and connected-device platform.
You will work closely with product managers, software engineers and platform specialists to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle, from requirements and design through to production deployment.
Key areas of focus include:
- Designing and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks using Playwright, Pytest and modern engineering practices
- Developing automated coverage across web applications, APIs, mobile platforms and backend services
- Validating end-to-end data flows between connected devices, cloud services and customer-facing applications
- Ensuring automated quality gates are embedded within CI/CD pipelines
- Supporting the validation of AI-assisted features and integrations through structured testing and evaluation frameworks
- Creating reliable and privacy-safe test data strategies for development and testing environments
- Driving automated regression, integration and release testing activities
- Communicating quality status, release readiness and key delivery risks to stakeholders
- Developing test plans, quality documentation and coverage strategies aligned to business priorities
The Organisation & Culture
Our client is a technology-driven organisation investing heavily in digital innovation, platform modernisation and connected customer experiences.
Operating within a fast-paced and collaborative environment, the business values ownership, continuous improvement and engineering excellence. Teams work closely together to solve complex technical challenges, deliver high-quality customer outcomes and build products that have real-world impact.
You'll join a culture where quality is considered a shared responsibility and where individuals are encouraged to contribute ideas, challenge thinking and drive meaningful improvements.
Skills & Experience Required
- Previous experience as a QA Automation Engineer, Senior SDET or Test Automation Engineer within modern software engineering environments
- Strong experience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks using Playwright or similar technologies
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript
- Demonstrated experience testing APIs, backend services and distributed systems
- Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and automated quality gates
- Experience working with SQL databases and data validation techniques
- Proven ability to collaborate with engineering, product and delivery teams throughout the software development lifecycle
- Strong problem-solving, stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to prioritise quality risks and focus testing efforts where they deliver the greatest business value
- Experience validating AI-enabled products or AI-generated outputs
This is an outstanding opportunity to influence the quality and reliability of a growing technology platform while helping shape the future of automation engineering within a collaborative and forward-thinking organisation.
If you're passionate about automation, modern engineering practices and delivering exceptional software quality, we'd love to hear from you.
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