Quality Engineer

Qantas; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel discounts

18 weeks parental leave

Salary packaging program

Wellbeing app

Job summary

Qantas is expanding its Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide and seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to embed quality practices across the software lifecycle. You’ll shape automation roadmaps, drive test strategies, and collaborate with engineers, product owners and stakeholders to deliver reliable digital experiences.

In this role you’ll lead API and contract testing, strengthen test frameworks and champion shift-left practices in agile squads.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing or Test Automation within Agile delivery environments.
• Define and own the quality engineering strategy and automation roadmap for your domain, setting the standards other engineers work to.
• Design and build scalable automation frameworks and embed testing into CI/CD pipelines for reliable delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead test strategy for APIs, microservices and distributed systems, including contract testing and API test automation.
• Mentor engineers in automation and testing, reviewing code and elevating the quality bar across squads.
• Drive root-cause analysis and improvements to processes, data strategy, environments and observability.

Skills

Quality engineering

Test automation

Playwright

Cypress

CI/CD pipelines

BDD

API testing

Contract testing

Mentoring

Observability

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

REST Assured

Pact

Splunk

Datadog

Job description

• At Qantas, our teams come together to create new and unique experiences for our customers.
• A fantastic opportunity to be part of a team that focuses on cutting-edge technology and engineering principles.
• Full-time and permanent position based at our new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide.

Join Qantas in our brand-new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide, where you’ll play a key role in shaping high-quality digital experiences that truly meet customer needs. By embedding robust testing strategies and automation practices, you’ll help ensure software reliability, performance, and security. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by delivering seamless experiences that strengthen customer trust and satisfaction.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quality Engineer to join our Technology team. In this role, you will be instrumental in embedding quality engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring our applications perform at the highest standards of reliability, scalability and customer experience.

Working within agile squads, you will contribute to both manual and automated testing, strengthen our test frameworks, and collaborate closely with engineers, product owners and stakeholders to deliver innovative and high‑quality digital solutions.

Key Responsibilities And What You'll Bring

• Bring 6+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing or Test Automation roles within Agile delivery environments
• Define and own the quality engineering strategy and automation roadmap for your domain, setting the standards other engineers work to
• Design and build scalable automation frameworks using Playwright, Cypress or similar, embedding these into CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable continuous delivery
• Champion BDD and shift-left testing practices across squads, influencing story design, acceptance criteria and definition of done before code is written
• Lead test strategy for APIs, microservices and distributed systems, including contract testing (e.g. Pact) and API test automation (e.g. REST Assured) across service boundaries
• Mentor and uplift engineers' automation and testing capability, reviewing automation code and setting the quality bar for the team
• Lead quality initiatives across multiple teams, partnering with Tech Leads, Product Managers and Engineering Leadership to identify systemic quality risks and drive their resolution
• Drive root cause analysis on recurring or high-impact defects, translating findings into process or framework improvements
• Establish and evolve test data strategy, environment strategy and observability practices (e.g. Splunk, Datadog) to support production confidence
• Represent quality engineering in architecture and design discussions, ensuring testability is designed in, not bolted on
• Exposure to cloud-native applications and modern observability platforms is highly desirable

Why Qantas?

At Qantas, your career can take you further than you imagined. You’ll join a team where creativity and passion drives success. Together we dream big and deliver even bigger.

You’ll find diverse opportunities to grow, personally and professionally. From day one, you’ll be supported with hands‑on training, coaching, and formal learning programs designed to help you excel. Your development is our priority because we know that when you thrive, so do our customers.

And while this role is your starting point at Qantas, it’s just the beginning. We have a proud history of helping our people explore new paths and reach new heights - the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

• We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees.
• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Applications close on 5th October

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.