QA Automation Engineer - Onsite (Sunshine Coast)

Ambrose Construct Group; Sunshine Coast Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Modern office facilities

Induction and development

Job summary

Ambrose Construct Group seeks a QA Software Engineer to drive quality across software platforms, developing scalable automated testing frameworks for web, mobile, and API environments. The role collaborates with developers, product managers, and designers to embed quality throughout the SDLC and improve test coverage while advocating quality-first engineering practices.

The role is an in-office position at the Sunshine Coast head office with no remote work; prior experience in automation and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or related field.
• 3-5+ years in software quality engineering, test automation, or software testing.
• Experience in Agile delivery environments and strong automation mindset.
• ISTQB Foundation/Advanced Certification is highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks across web, mobile, and API environments.
• Build and execute automated API test suites for RESTful and GraphQL services.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable releases.
• Continuously improve test coverage, execution efficiency, and platform reliability.
• Review requirements and technical specs to provide early quality input.
• Develop test plans, cases, risk assessments, and edge cases.
• Perform exploratory testing and SQL-based data integrity validation.

Skills

Cypress

Playwright

Selenium WebDriver

SQL testing

CI/CD

Agile

Postman

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering

ISTQB Foundation/Advanced (preferred)

Tools

Postman

REST Assured

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Job description

Ambrose Construct Group seeks a QA Software Engineer to drive quality across software platforms, developing scalable automated testing frameworks for web, mobile, and API environments. The role collaborates with developers, product managers, and designers to embed quality throughout the SDLC and improve test coverage while advocating quality-first engineering practices.

The role is an in-office position at the Sunshine Coast head office with no remote work; prior experience in automation and