Junior Software QA Engineer — Automation & Testing

WebHosting; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Megaport in Brisbane is seeking a Junior Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Engineering team. This hybrid, full-time role focuses on planning, running and evaluating manual and automated tests to ensure high quality product delivery for customers.

You will work with familiar stacks and testing tools, contribute test plans and test cases, and help maintain automated test suites. The role welcomes candidates with theoretical programming or test automation knowledge and an interest in

Qualifications

• Hands-on testing experience across manual and automated approaches.
• Familiarity with test plans, test cases and defect tracking.
• Knowledge of software QA concepts and quality assurance practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the quality of the systems being deployed.
• Create and maintain test plans and test cases.
• Run and maintain automated test suites.
• Understand requirements and specs for Megaport products.
• Learn about industry standard testing tools and strategies.

Skills

Test automation

Manual testing

Software QA

Programming basics

Agile basics

Tools

Automation tools

Job description

Junior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Hybrid Full-time Entry Engineering

Job Description

About MegaportWe’re not your typical tech company – and we don’t want to be. Megaport is the global leader in Network as a Service (NaaS), and has transformed the way businesses connect to the cloud, data centers, and each other. We’re publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and partnered with the biggest names in tech like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, and more. Headquartered in Brisbane with a crew of over 600 people spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, our employees enjoy an environment that is collaborative, supportive, and (actually) fun. Our Team CultureWe’re a team of problem solvers, pixel pushers, code slingers, and cloud fanatics. Culture is more than a poster on the wall here – collaboration beats hierarchy, curiosity fuels our growth, and everyone’s voice matters. We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We work across time zones to execute on our global vision, trust each other to get things done, and never compromise our values for commercial gain. Most importantly, we place our customers at the center of everything we do. We’re committed to increasing representation in the tech industry and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Don’t meet every requirement? That’s okay. If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role

We are looking for a highly passionate and driven Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will support software delivery by planning, running and evaluating manual and automated tests in order to ensure high quality product delivery for our customers.

This is a hands-on technical role, ideal for someone who has practical knowledge of industry standard software stacks and development tools, as you will need to assess risks and testing practices based on the inner workings and interoperability of our components.

The role requires – at least – theoretical programming and/or test automation knowledge – experience of using agentic AI is highly desirable to become a productive member of the wider team. Networking knowledge is an advantage, but not essential.

What You’ll Be Doing

The primary focus of this role is to work as a member of the development team to maintain and improve the quality of the systems being deployed

Understand requirements, specifications, and how Megaport products work in general as the basis for formulating or executing effective automated and manual tests

Create and maintain comprehensive and effective test plans and test cases

Run and maintain automated test suites – possibly including designing and implementing those

Learn about and use industry standard development and testing tools & strategies