Senior QA Engineer: Automation Architect & Strategy

Vix Technology & Kuba; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Vix Technology in Australia is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to lead the quality strategy across product and solutions. You will define automation architecture, embed shift-left testing, and drive CI/CD quality gates to ensure reliable, high-integrity systems in complex environments.

You’ll mentor other QA engineers, collaborate with agile teams, CloudOps and customers, and shape a high-performing quality culture while advancing modern QA practices and automation excellence.

Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience in software quality assurance within complex, Agile development environments.
• Proven expertise designing and implementing 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

• Lead automation architecture and establish scalable automation frameworks.
• Define and drive product-wide and solution-wide quality strategy.
• Mentor and elevate other QA engineers.
• Collaborate with Agile teams, CloudOps and customers to ensure robust testing.
• Embed shift-left practices and strengthen CI/CD quality gates.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation frameworks

CI/CD

Risk-based testing

API & integration testing

Job description

Vix Technology in Australia is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to lead the quality strategy across product and solutions. You will define automation architecture, embed shift-left testing, and drive CI/CD quality gates to ensure reliable, high-integrity systems in complex environments.

You’ll mentor other QA engineers, collaborate with agile teams, CloudOps and customers, and shape a high-performing quality culture while advancing modern QA practices and automation excellence.