Senior Test Automation Engineer — Hybrid, AI‑Driven Quality

Bright and Duggan; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Great working environment

Education programs

Employee assistance

Novated lease options

First aid on site

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 define test strategies, build automation frameworks, and embed quality across the delivery lifecycle within a hybrid engineering team.

You will lead automation initiatives, collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data and Technology Operations, and promote secure, reliable software through continuous testing and

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of professional experience in test automation or quality engineering.
• Proven track record designing automated testing for complex enterprise systems.
• Strong programming capability in TypeScript.

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.

Skills

TypeScript

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Karate

K6

Pact

WireMock

Testcontainers

Toxiproxy

Axe

Tools

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 define test strategies, build automation frameworks, and embed quality across the delivery lifecycle within a hybrid engineering team.

You will lead automation initiatives, collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data and Technology Operations, and promote secure, reliable software through continuous testing and