Lead API Automation Architect

Talent Corp; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent is seeking a Technical Test Lead to drive design and implementation of modern, scalable test automation in a complex SaaS environment. This hands-on leadership role requires engineering depth to build automation frameworks, influence quality practices and deliver practical improvements across platforms.

You will mentor teams, establish standards and improve confidence in software delivery while partnering with internal and external teams to uplift automation capabilities and testing

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading API-first automation initiatives.
• Hands-on engineering with designing scalable automation frameworks.
• Strong practice across CI/CD pipelines and test data handling.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement scalable automation frameworks across API, integration and UI testing.
• Champion API-first testing including contract and integration testing.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to improve release reliability.
• Mentor engineering teams and establish engineering standards.
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to raise testing maturity.
• Define quality metrics and dashboards to measure automation impact.

Skills

Automation frameworks

API automation

Contract testing

CI/CD pipelines

Mentoring teams

Cloud/AWS

Performance testing

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Talent is seeking a Technical Test Lead to drive design and implementation of modern, scalable test automation in a complex SaaS environment. This hands-on leadership role requires engineering depth to build automation frameworks, influence quality practices and deliver practical improvements across platforms.

You will mentor teams, establish standards and improve confidence in software delivery while partnering with internal and external teams to uplift automation capabilities and testing