Senior Test Automation Engineer API and CI/CD Leader

Bright & Duggan Property Group; St Leonards; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/flexible working

Great working environment

Ongoing education

Employee assistance program

Novated lease options

First Aid & Mental Health Officers on‑

Job summary

Bright & Duggan Group is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer to design, build and maintain the automated testing capability behind our Strata Operations Platform. You will shape test strategy and quality standards within the engineering team, partnering with Engineering, Product, Data and Technology Operations to embed continuous testing across the delivery lifecycle.

This hands-on role combines strong technical capability with leadership, building reliable automation solutions,

Qualifications

• Eight years of professional experience in test automation or quality engineering.
• Proven experience designing and delivering automated testing for complex business or enterprise systems.
• Strong programming capability in TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with modern API, integration and end-to-end automation frameworks and tools.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Understanding of testing distributed, event-driven and workflow-enabled systems.
• Experience applying security, reliability and quality practices within software delivery.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering automation practices.
• Strong communication, mentoring, collaboration and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• Experience working in agile product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain test strategies, coverage models, quality gates and release-readiness metrics.
• Design test approaches across API, integration, end-to-end, visual, regression, security and non-functional testing.
• Build and maintain automated test suites that are reliable, reusable and fast to run.
• Develop automation frameworks, libraries, fixtures, mocks, stubs and service abstractions.
• Build automated coverage for APIs, services, integrations, workflows and user interfaces.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to deliver early and continuous quality feedback.
• Monitor test-suite health, execution time and flakiness, ensuring pipelines remain trustworthy.
• Support performance, load, resilience, deployment verification and post-release testing.
• Develop repeatable and compliant approaches to test data and test environments.
• Diagnose and resolve test failures, identifying genuine defects and unstable tests.
• Embed quality and secure-by-design practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to improve test design, code generation, data generation, documentation and refactoring.
• Coach engineers, share knowledge and promote shared ownership of quality across the team.
• Identify opportunities to simplify testing, reduce maintenance effort and improve delivery confidence.

Skills

TypeScript

API Testing

CI/CD

Automation Frameworks

Quality Assurance

Security Testing

Mentoring

Agile

Team Collaboration

Tools

Playwright

Karate

K6

Pact

WireMock

Testcontainers

Toxiproxy

Axe

OWASP ZAP

Semgrep

Dependabot

Job description

Bright & Duggan Group is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer to design, build and maintain the automated testing capability behind our Strata Operations Platform. You will shape test strategy and quality standards within the engineering team, partnering with Engineering, Product, Data and Technology Operations to embed continuous testing across the delivery lifecycle.

This hands-on role combines strong technical capability with leadership, building reliable automation solutions,