Senior Automation Engineer: Scale Testing & CI/CD Excellence

UniSuper; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

17% superannuation contribution

$1,500 annual development funding

20 weeks paid parental leave

Three additional paid leave days

Job summary

UniSuper is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to deliver scalable test automation solutions for UI, API and integration layers. You will collaborate with engineers, product owners and platform teams to foster automation-first practices and strong engineering discipline.

The role emphasizes shift-left testing, CI/CD improvements and continuous quality enhancement within agile delivery squads, with a 60% office commitment in Melbourne.

Qualifications

• You bring strong hands-on test automation experience within agile delivery environments.
• You have experience delivering and maintaining automation suites at scale.
• You have proficiency with UI, API, and integration testing tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• You understand microservices and cloud-native architectures and test data management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver risk-based, automation-first test approaches aligned to delivery needs.
• Deliver automation frameworks and test suites across UI, API and integration layers.
• Improve test reliability, maintainability and CI/CD execution.
• Support shift-left practices, including BDD, TDD and early test design.
• Analyse defects, test results and production incidents to identify quality gaps.
• Contribute to shared quality capability through collaboration and knowledge sharing

Skills

Test automation experience

Agile delivery

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Tertiary qualification in related discipline

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

RestAssured

Pytest

TOSCA

Job description

UniSuper is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to deliver scalable test automation solutions for UI, API and integration layers. You will collaborate with engineers, product owners and platform teams to foster automation-first practices and strong engineering discipline.

The role emphasizes shift-left testing, CI/CD improvements and continuous quality enhancement within agile delivery squads, with a 60% office commitment in Melbourne.