Quality Assurance Engineer

Clicks IT Recruitment; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Clicks IT Recruitment is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer for a 12 month contract based in Brisbane. This full-time on-site role requires working five days per week in Brisbane CBD, with remote applications not considered.

You will join a high-performing Agile team delivering quality software across a data-rich enterprise platform, focusing on test automation, data quality, and end-to-end QA across UI, API, and backend services.

Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience in QA and automation testing.
• Strong Agile delivery and SDLC understanding.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated test suites.
• Hands-on REST API testing experience.
• Experience testing data-intensive applications.
• Proactive, collaborative in Agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality assurance for features and user stories.
• Define test approaches and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain test plans, cases, and docs.
• Design, build and maintain automated tests across UI, API and backend.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers and team leads.
• Communicate quality risks and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Champion shift-left testing practices.

Skills

QA automation

Agile delivery

REST API testing

Playwright

TypeScript/JavaScript

Cucumber/BDD

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Data testing

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Playwright

Cucumber

GitHub Actions

Job description

Quality Assurance Engineer

12 month contract

Full-time onsite work required – Brisbane CBD / Remote applicants will not be considered

We're partnering with a global technology organisation to recruit an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer.

Joining a high-performing Agile team, you'll play a key role in delivering quality software solutions within a complex, data-rich enterprise platform. This position combines hands‑on testing, test automation and quality engineering, with a strong focus on improving product quality across the full software delivery lifecycle.

Working within a team focused on modern data platform capabilities, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the quality of large-scale data processing solutions and help ensure the reliability, accuracy and performance of business-critical systems.

What you'll be doing

• Own end-to-end quality assurance for features and user stories
• Define test approaches and execute testing against acceptance criteria
• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases and quality documentation
• Design, build and maintain automated tests across UI, API and backend services
• Perform API testing, validation and access control testing
• Validate data flows, data pipelines and data transformations across distributed systems
• Perform automated data validation and data quality testing
• Verify the accuracy, completeness and integrity of data moving between systems
• Enhance and support Playwright and Cucumber automation frameworks
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Monitor, analyse and resolve automation failures
• Execute regression, exploratory and acceptance testing
• Support test environment and test data management
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers and team leads
• Communicate quality risks, issues and recommendations to stakeholders
• Champion quality engineering and shift-left testing practices

What you need to bring

• 4+ years' experience in QA and automation testing
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery and the SDLC
• Proven experience designing and maintaining automated test suites
• A proactive and self-sufficient approach, with the ability to identify blockers, engage stakeholders and drive outcomes independently
• Strong collaboration skills and a track record of working effectively within Agile teams
• Experience testing data-intensive applications or platforms would be highly regarded
• Strong test design, analysis and risk-based testing skills
• Hands‑on REST API testing experience
• Experience testing authentication and role‑based access controls
• Proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript and/or Java
• Strong experience using Playwright
• Experience with Cucumber or BDD frameworks
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions
• Strong troubleshooting and defect investigation skills
• Experience across both manual and automated testing
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills
• Experience producing test documentation and reporting

Bonus points for

• Working within enterprise-scale software environments
• Modernising, optimising or scaling automated testing frameworks
• Exposure to complex, high-volume and data-intensive platforms
• Championing quality engineering principles and shift-left testing practices
• Testing data platforms, data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes or distributed data processing solutions
• Supporting event-driven architectures and real-time streaming environments
• Building or executing automated data validation and data quality testing
• Knowledge of modern data technologies including Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake and Kafka
• Understanding of data transformation, lineage and end-to-end data quality concepts

Highly desirable technology experience

• Apache Flink
• Apache Spark
• Apache Iceberg
• Delta Lake
• Kafka or other event/streaming technologies
• Data pipelines, ETL/ELT or distributed data processing
• Automated data validation and data quality testing

Important to know

• Full working rights required
• This role will require the successful candidate to work on site in Brisbane full-time 5 days per week.
• Remote applicants will not be considered.

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At Clicks we embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity. First Nations people are encouraged to apply. We provide reasonable adjustments, including alternate formats to the recruitment process for individuals with a disability. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process, please call 1300 254 *** or email***********@clicks.com.au