Quality Engineering Lead — AI-Driven Payments & Strategy

Australian Payments Plus Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Payments Plus Limited is seeking a seasoned Quality Engineering Manager to lead a team of Quality Engineers, shape testing strategy and drive automation and AI-enabled testing.

You will partner with engineering, product and operations to embed quality across the delivery lifecycle and champion secure, reliable payment experiences for Australia\'s payments ecosystem.

If you combine strategic thinking with hands-on depth and enjoy developing teams, apply to join AP+.

Qualifications

• Up to 10+ years' experience as a Senior or Lead Quality Engineer, or in an equivalent role.
• A bachelor's degree in engineering is preferred, or an alternative pathway into engineering.
• Payments or financial technology experience is an advantage, but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Quality Engineers, building a collaborative, accountable culture and strengthening capability across the Quality Engineering cohort.
• Set and drive AP+'s Quality Engineering strategy, aligning testing approaches with product objectives and business priorities.
• Oversee the design, execution and analysis of testing across levels and types. Review requirements and specifications to shape test coverage, prioritise risk and ensure results are clear to delivery teams.
• Advance test automation and the use of AI-enabled coding, refactoring and test practices to improve delivery speed and coverage while maintaining software quality.
• Partner with engineering, product and operations teams to embed functional, non-functional and security quality practices throughout the delivery lifecycle and support continuous delivery.
• Evaluate and improve testing tools, frameworks and ways of working. Stay hands-on to support test execution across teams, and represent Quality Engineering with AP+ stakeholders, customers and vendors.

Skills

Quality Engineering Leadership

Test Automation

AI-enabled testing

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Testing tools

Job description

Australian Payments Plus Limited is seeking a seasoned Quality Engineering Manager to lead a team of Quality Engineers, shape testing strategy and drive automation and AI-enabled testing.

You will partner with engineering, product and operations to embed quality across the delivery lifecycle and champion secure, reliable payment experiences for Australia\'s payments ecosystem.

If you combine strategic thinking with hands-on depth and enjoy developing teams, apply to join AP+.