Senior Test Automation Engineer — Hybrid Sydney

Bright & Duggan Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/Flexible Working options

Excellent working environment

Ongoing education and learning both内部与

Employee Assistance Programs

Job summary

Bright & Duggan Group is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer to design, build and maintain automated testing for our Strata Operations Platform. You’ll partner with Engineering, Product and Data teams to embed continuous testing and improve release confidence.

The role requires eight+ years in test automation, strong TypeScript skills and hands-on API/integration testing experience. This 2‑year fixed‑term contract offers hybrid Sydney work options and growth opportunities.

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.
• A strong understanding of testing distributed, event‑driven and workflow‑enabled systems.
• Demonstrated experience applying security, reliability and quality practices within software delivery.
• Experience using AI‑assistant 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‑assistant 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

CI/CD integration

API automation

Security practices

AI-assisted tools

Mentoring & collaboration

Agile teams

GitHub Actions

Tools

Playwright

Karate

K6

Pact

WireMock

Testcontainers

Toxiproxy

Axe

Job description

Bright & Duggan Group is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer to design, build and maintain automated testing for our Strata Operations Platform. You’ll partner with Engineering, Product and Data teams to embed continuous testing and improve release confidence.

The role requires eight+ years in test automation, strong TypeScript skills and hands-on API/integration testing experience. This 2‑year fixed‑term contract offers hybrid Sydney work options and growth opportunities.