Senior QA Architect: Automation & Quality Strategy

Vix Technology; Perth; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning and development

Collaborative team culture

Job summary

Vix Technology in Australia is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to shape product-wide quality strategy and lead automation initiatives across complex, transaction-heavy systems. You’ll mentor QA engineers, embed shift-left practices, and drive CI/CD quality gates to ensure reliable performance in real-world deployments.

You will collaborate with Agile teams, product owners, CloudOps and customers to raise quality, reduce risk, and build scalable automation frameworks that elevate our testing to a

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in software quality assurance within complex, Agile development environments.
• Proven expertise designing automated testing frameworks across functional, API, integration and regression testing.
• Strong experience embedding shift-left quality practices and integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated leadership in driving product-wide test strategy, risk-based testing, and defect prevention analysis.
• Experience testing high-integrity, transaction-heavy systems (e.g. transport, banking, retail, or other mission-critical platforms).

Responsibilities

• Define and drive product-wide quality strategy across the organisation.
• Lead automation architecture and embed shift-left testing practices.
• Strengthen CI/CD quality gates and ensure production readiness.
• Mentor and elevate other QA engineers across teams.
• Collaborate with Agile delivery teams, Product Owners, CloudOps and customers.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy development

Mentoring

Automation design

CI/CD integration

Risk-based testing

Tools

Automation frameworks

AI-enabled testing

Job description

Vix Technology in Australia is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to shape product-wide quality strategy and lead automation initiatives across complex, transaction-heavy systems. You’ll mentor QA engineers, embed shift-left practices, and drive CI/CD quality gates to ensure reliable performance in real-world deployments.

You will collaborate with Agile teams, product owners, CloudOps and customers to raise quality, reduce risk, and build scalable automation frameworks that elevate our testing to a