Senior QA Engineer — Lead Shift-Left Quality & Automation

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

Job summary

Domain Group seeks a Senior QA Engineer to lead quality engineering across product and engineering teams, acting as a quality coach and shift-left advocate. The role embeds quality throughout the software development lifecycle with close collaboration to engineers, product managers and designers.

You will champion automated testing across web, API and mobile using Cypress, Playwright, Cucumber and Postman, guiding testing strategies and improving automation coverage while reducing production

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related discipline.
• Extensive experience implementing shift-left and quality assurance in agile product development.
• Strong expertise across frontend, backend, API, mobile, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices (Jenkins, GitHub).
• Ability to influence engineering teams and coach on quality engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Champion shift-left testing and embed quality across the SDLC.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks for web, API, and mobile platforms.
• Drive testing strategies balancing unit, integration, API, E2E, accessibility, and exploratory testing.
• Partner with Engineers, Product Managers and Designers to identify risks early and improve testability.
• Coach engineers on quality practices and automation approaches.
• Drive continuous improvement of quality standards, tooling, and processes.
• Advise on embedding automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Foster shared ownership of quality across teams.

Skills

Shift-left testing

Quality coaching

Test automation

CI/CD collaboration

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/IT

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Cucumber

Postman

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Domain Group seeks a Senior QA Engineer to lead quality engineering across product and engineering teams, acting as a quality coach and shift-left advocate. The role embeds quality throughout the software development lifecycle with close collaboration to engineers, product managers and designers.

You will champion automated testing across web, API and mobile using Cypress, Playwright, Cucumber and Postman, guiding testing strategies and improving automation coverage while reducing production