Automation-Driven Quality Lead for Cloud & API

Mansell Taylor Consulting; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mansell Taylor Consulting is looking for an experienced Quality Engineering leader to oversee a team of 15 SDETs and testing professionals across multiple Product and Engineering squads in Brisbane. You will define what good looks like, set the direction for quality across the lifecycle and drive governance that scales with cloud-based delivery.

This role focuses on automation-first testing, CI/CD integration, performance and security testing, and building a culture of continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Leader who has built and scaled testing teams in complex software environments.
• Strong experience with test automation, CI/CD and cloud-based solutions.
• Solid understanding of APIs and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of SDETs and testing professionals
• Define and implement quality strategy, principles, standards and governance
• Establish consistent quality gates, entry and exit criteria and release-readiness practices
• Drive an automation-first approach and strengthen automated testing within CI/CD pipelines
• Improve testing practices across cloud applications, APIs and microservices
• Strengthen defect management, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement
• Ensure appropriate testing across performance, resilience, security, scalability and observability
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture and SRE to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Establish meaningful quality metrics and provide visibility of release readiness and risk
• Build a strong team culture with clear expectations, development opportunities and a shared sense of purpose

Skills

Team leadership

Quality engineering

Test automation

CI/CD

Cloud testing

APIs & microservices

Defect management

People development

Tools

Playwright

GitLab

Job description

Mansell Taylor Consulting is looking for an experienced Quality Engineering leader to oversee a team of 15 SDETs and testing professionals across multiple Product and Engineering squads in Brisbane. You will define what good looks like, set the direction for quality across the lifecycle and drive governance that scales with cloud-based delivery.

This role focuses on automation-first testing, CI/CD integration, performance and security testing, and building a culture of continuous improvement