QA Engineer: Embedded Systems for Mining Tech (Hybrid)

Task Recruitment; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Gym membership

Weekly catered learning lunches

Professional development opportunities

Employee wellbeing support

Job summary

Task Recruitment is seeking a QA Engineer for embedded systems and mining technology in Brisbane. The role emphasizes hands-on testing of onboard embedded systems and offboard applications, with automation development and test coordination across complex software environments.

The successful candidate will test across hardware/software boundaries, develop Playwright-based web tests, and contribute to AI-assisted testing adoption while working with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable

Qualifications

• Hands-on QA experience in embedded/industrial tech environments.
• Experience developing, maintaining and improving automated testing systems.
• Strong scripting capabilities in SQL, Python and Linux shell.

Responsibilities

• Undertake hands-on functional, exploratory, integration, regression and system testing across complex software products, with a particular emphasis on onboard embedded systems.
• Analyse software behaviour, business logic, algorithms, interfaces and interactions between interconnected systems to identify defects, edge cases and potential operational risks.
• Develop, maintain and improve automated testing systems, frameworks, scripts and reusable regression suites.
• Personally develop and maintain Playwright-based automated tests for web applications and related interfaces, building on existing automation capabilities.
• Use SQL, Python and Linux shell scripting for test-data preparation, validation, simulation, automation and troubleshooting.
• Test software operating in real-world mining environments, including intermittent connectivity, networking issues, hardware interfaces and challenging operating conditions.
• Plan and coordinate in-sprint, integration, regression, system and release testing in collaboration with software engineers.
• Review requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria to identify missing scenarios, assumptions and quality risks.
• Test integration between onboard embedded systems, offboard applications, web interfaces, APIs, databases and cloud services.
• Evaluate web application functionality, usability and end-to-end workflows, including appropriate risk-based security testing.
• Maintain established QA processes and automation frameworks, identifying and implementing practical improvements.
• Further the adoption of AI-assisted testing to improve test design, coverage analysis, test-data generation, automation and defect investigation, with appropriate review and validation.
• Manage test cases, execution cycles, defect tracking, evidence and traceability using Zephyr and Jira.
• Coordinate release regression testing and prepare consolidated reports outlining test outcomes, outstanding defects, residual risks and release readiness.
• Work collaboratively with engineers to investigate and resolve defects, improve test coverage and support reliable software releases.

Skills

Hands-on testing

Automation testing

Python scripting

SQL scripting

Embedded systems testing

Agile methodologies

Tools

Playwright

Zephyr

Jira

Linux

C/C++

Azure

Job description

Task Recruitment is seeking a QA Engineer for embedded systems and mining technology in Brisbane. The role emphasizes hands-on testing of onboard embedded systems and offboard applications, with automation development and test coordination across complex software environments.

The successful candidate will test across hardware/software boundaries, develop Playwright-based web tests, and contribute to AI-assisted testing adoption while working with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable