Lead Mobile Automation & AI Testing Engineer

Bridge IT Engineering; Canberra; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridge IT Engineering is seeking an experienced EL1 Mobile Automation & AI Tester to support a complex Federal Government ICT program in Canberra. The role involves leading automated testing across mobile platforms and AI-enabled capabilities, ensuring reliability, security, and fit-for-purpose delivery.

You will design scalable automation frameworks, mentor testers, and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, while collaborating with developers, architects and product teams to drive quality and

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in mobile application testing.
• Strong experience designing and implementing automated testing across mobile platforms.
• Experience developing and maintaining mobile automation frameworks and reusable automated test suites.
• Demonstrated experience testing AI-enabled applications, features or services.
• Experience assessing the quality, reliability and consistency of AI-generated outputs.
• Strong experience across functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing.
• Ability to analyse complex technical and business requirements and develop testing strategies, scenarios and automation coverage.
• Strong technical leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with developers, architects and multidisciplinary ICT delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, execution and maintenance of automated testing for mobile applications.
• Develop and enhance scalable, reusable and maintainable mobile automation frameworks and automated test suites.
• Develop testing approaches for AI-enabled features and services.
• Validate the accuracy, consistency, reliability and expected behaviour of AI-generated outputs.
• Design test scenarios and datasets to assess expected, unexpected, edge-case and failure conditions.
• Undertake functional, integration, regression, end-to-end and exploratory testing.
• Analyse business and technical requirements, solution designs, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with developers, architects, product teams and technical specialists to investigate and resolve defects.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyse test results, defects and quality metrics to identify trends, risks and assurance needs.
• Provide specialist advice on mobile automation, AI testing approaches, quality risks and solution readiness.
• Support testing of security, privacy, accessibility, performance and resilience requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of automation frameworks, testing standards, tools and quality engineering practices.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to testers and delivery team members.

Skills

Mobile testing

Automation frameworks

AI testing

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Debugging

Tools

Appium

Espresso

XCUITest

Job description

Bridge IT Engineering is seeking an experienced EL1 Mobile Automation & AI Tester to support a complex Federal Government ICT program in Canberra. The role involves leading automated testing across mobile platforms and AI-enabled capabilities, ensuring reliability, security, and fit-for-purpose delivery.

You will design scalable automation frameworks, mentor testers, and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, while collaborating with developers, architects and product teams to drive quality and