Software Automation Engineer

Westpac; Gold Coast City; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Mortgage rate discounts

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

Westpac is hiring a Software Automation Engineer in Surfers Paradise, Queensland. The role focuses on building automation frameworks, automating tests, and validating data migrations to support business lending technology solutions.

You will work with developers, architects, analysts and delivery teams in a hybrid setup to drive faster, more reliable outcomes for customers.

Qualifications

• Design and build automation frameworks for enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with TS/Java/Python and UI/API testing tools.
• Strong SQL skills to analyse data and validate outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Automate testing processes across multiple enterprise applications.
• Validate large-scale data movements and investigate defects.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts and delivery teams.

Skills

Automation frameworks

TypeScript

Java

Python

Selenium

API testing

SQL

Tools

MySQL

UFT

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Software Automation Engineer.

What’s the role?

You’ll play a key role in helping One commercial banking deliver high quality, reliable technology solutions for our Business Lending customers. As an Automation Engineer, you’ll build and enhance automation frameworks that improve testing efficiency, support complex data migration activities, and strengthen confidence in business-critical technology changes.

Working across multiple enterprise applications, you’ll automate testing processes, validate large scale data movements, investigate technical issues and collaborate with engineers, architects, business analysts and delivery teams to solve complex challenges. You’ll also contribute to improving ways of working, enhancing automation capability and helping teams deliver better outcomes, faster.

This is a full time, hybrid role based in Surfers Paradise, Queensland.

What do I need?

• Strong experience designing, building and improving automation frameworks for enterprise applications
• Hands on experience with TypeScript, Java, Python, Selenium, UFT, API testing or similar automation technologies
• Experience using SQL, MySQL or similar databases to analyse data, validate outcomes and investigate defects
• Understanding of CI/CD practices, DevOps ways of working and continuous testing approaches
• Experience using AI agents to accelerate and optimise testing, including test data generation and augmentation, test case and automation-script generation, test-data validation and reconciliation
• Strong communication, analytical and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work across multiple teams and technologies

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee only mortgage rates
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank
• Lots of opportunities to give back to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives

Create your future today

We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find more information and contact details on our FAQs and how to contact us page, under the ‘Diversity, sustainability and flexibility’ section.