Senior Quality Engineer - Automation & API Testing Lead

Qantas; Adelaide; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Heavy travel discounts

18 weeks parental leave

Additional paid leave option

Rewards program discounts

Wellbeing app

Job summary

Join Qantas in our brand-new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide, where you’ll shape high-quality digital experiences with robust testing and automation. You’ll help ensure software reliability, performance and security while delivering seamless experiences that strengthen customer trust.

As Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll embed quality practices across the software delivery lifecycle, lead automation frameworks using Playwright or Cypress, and collaborate with engineers, product owners and

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Quality Engineering, Software Testing or Test Automation within Agile delivery.
• Define and own quality engineering strategy and automation roadmap.
• Design and build scalable automation frameworks with Playwright or Cypress.
• Champion BDD and shift-left testing across squads.
• Lead API, microservices, and distributed systems test strategy including contract testing.
• Mentor engineers and uplift automation capability.
• Drive quality initiatives across teams and perform root cause analysis.
• Establish test data, environment and observability strategies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to both manual and automated testing within agile squads.
• Strengthen test frameworks and collaborate with engineers, product owners and stakeholders.
• Deliver innovative, high-quality digital solutions that meet customer needs.
• Represent quality engineering in architecture and design discussions to ensure testability.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Software Testing

Test Automation

Agile Delivery

Playwright

Cypress

BDD

Shift-left Testing

API Testing

Contract Testing

REST Assured

Mentoring

Test Strategy

Observability

Test Data Strategy

Cross-browser Testing

Tools

Jira Zephyr

LambdaTest

BrowserStack

Splunk

Datadog

Job description

Join Qantas in our brand-new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide, where you’ll shape high-quality digital experiences with robust testing and automation. You’ll help ensure software reliability, performance and security while delivering seamless experiences that strengthen customer trust.

As Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll embed quality practices across the software delivery lifecycle, lead automation frameworks using Playwright or Cypress, and collaborate with engineers, product owners and