Senior QA Engineer — AI Automation & API Testing (12-month FTC)

Rest; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rest Days

Parental leave

Learning & development

Income protection

Additional leave option

Excellence awards

Job summary

Rest is seeking a Senior QA Engineer (AI) for a 12‑month FTC to shape QA for AI‑powered solutions. You will strengthen automation, reduce risk, and deliver reliable member experiences.

Your focus will be on defining standards, building automated tests, and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to align testing with project goals. You will design an AI API assurance framework, automate end‑to‑end journeys, and evolve the Playwright/TypeScript automation stack while ensuring quality across

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Test Analyst.
• Strong coding capability in Python and SQL, with automation experience.
• Hands-on with AI platforms such as Copilot/OpenAI/Azure AI Foundry.
• Knowledge of test planning, stakeholder management and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI API assurance framework and controls.
• Build automated tests across services for end-to-end validation.
• Automate end-to-end UI tests with Playwright and RBAC permutations.
• Develop and evolve the automation framework and Page Object Model.
• Create test data management and maintain test scenarios.
• Track defects in Jira and coordinate with developers and vendors.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align testing with timelines.

Skills

Python

SQL

Test automation

AI platforms

Education

Tertiary technology degree

QA certification

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

Jira

Zephyr

Azure AI Foundry

Job description

Rest is seeking a Senior QA Engineer (AI) for a 12‑month FTC to shape QA for AI‑powered solutions. You will strengthen automation, reduce risk, and deliver reliable member experiences.

Your focus will be on defining standards, building automated tests, and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to align testing with project goals. You will design an AI API assurance framework, automate end‑to‑end journeys, and evolve the Playwright/TypeScript automation stack while ensuring quality across