Quality Engineer — Automation, API Testing & CI/CD

Task Recruitment; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Task Recruitment is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance and Test Automation Engineer for a Brisbane-based role with a global mining OEM and technology leader. You’ll own quality across the software delivery lifecycle, combining test automation, exploratory testing and API testing to ensure reliable real-world software.

The role involves designing and maintaining automated tests across UI, APIs and backend services, integrating tests into CI/CD, and collaborating with engineers, product

Qualifications

• 4+ years in QA, Test Automation or similar software testing role.
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining automated test suites.
• Hands-on testing across UI, APIs and backend services.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of quality across user stories, from test approach to execution and sign-off.
• Design, develop and maintain automated tests across UI, APIs and backend services.
• Build and improve reliable automation frameworks for maintainable tests.
• Test REST APIs, including positive/negative scenarios, auth and RBAC.
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases and test reporting.
• Plan regression, acceptance and exploratory testing.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and monitor execution.
• Troubleshoot failed and flaky tests and identify root causes.
• Support test environments and test data, collaborate with engineers and stakeholders.
• Promote shift-left testing and embed quality throughout the lifecycle.
• Contribute to QA standards, automation, processes and quality gates.
• Apply risk-based testing to focus effort where value is greatest.

Skills

Quality assurance

Test automation

CI/CD pipelines

Playwright / Selenium / Cypress

REST APIs

Agile / SDLC

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

API testing tools

Git / GitHub

Job description

Task Recruitment is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance and Test Automation Engineer for a Brisbane-based role with a global mining OEM and technology leader. You’ll own quality across the software delivery lifecycle, combining test automation, exploratory testing and API testing to ensure reliable real-world software.

The role involves designing and maintaining automated tests across UI, APIs and backend services, integrating tests into CI/CD, and collaborating with engineers, product