Senior AI QA Engineer — Automation & API Testing (12‑Month FTC)

Rest; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rest days

Parental leave

AI & Data Academy

Job summary

Rest helps more than 2 million Australians to build a better financial future. With around $112 billion in funds under management, we focus on delivering strong long-term outcomes for our members – from their first job through to retirement*.

Your best at Rest means focusing on what matters, being trusted to get on with it, and knowing your work genuinely makes a difference. That’s how we operate every day, guided by our values: Be Daring, Keep It Simple, Take Action and Have Grit.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Test Analyst.
• Strong coding capability in Python, SQL or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, intelligent agents and other LLM-based services.
• Experience carrying out Test Planning, stakeholder management.
• Knowledge of testing principles, methods, tools and technologies, including plans, scenarios, strategies and related procedures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the AI API Assurance Framework, defining the standards, test controls and evidence required before AI-designed APIs are deployed to production.
• Build business-flow API automated tests across services to validate end-to-end system behaviour, including parity checks between modernised and legacy functionality.
• Automate end-to-end user journeys through the Angular UI WebApp using Playwright, with API-first test setup and role-based access control (RBAC) permutations.
• Contribute to and evolve the Playwright and TypeScript automation framework, including the shared locator library, extensible Page Object Model, reusable fixtures and parallel execution.
• Plan for opportunities to develop and maintain automated test scripts to improve efficiency and repeatability of testing processes, where applicable.
• Effectively manage test data, review and refine test scenarios, and ensure the seamless execution of testing processes to meet quality standards using tools like Jira / Zephyr.
• Create & Update Test Reporting Dashboards, providing insights into test coverage, defect status, and overall quality metrics to stakeholders with industry standard Quality Matrices.
• Identify, document, and track defects using Jira, working closely with developers & vendors to ensure timely resolution and conduct defect triages with the wider delivery team members as required.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, business analysts, and project managers, to align testing activities with project goals and timelines.

Skills

Python

SQL

Test automation

Stakeholder management

Education

Tertiary qualification in technology

QA certification

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

Jira

Zephyr

Angular

Job description

Rest helps more than 2 million Australians to build a better financial future. With around $112 billion in funds under management, we focus on delivering strong long-term outcomes for our members – from their first job through to retirement*.

Your best at Rest means focusing on what matters, being trusted to get on with it, and knowing your work genuinely makes a difference. That’s how we operate every day, guided by our values: Be Daring, Keep It Simple, Take Action and Have Grit.