Software Automation Engineer

Westpac Group; Gold Coast City; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Mortgage rate discounts

Learning and development opportunities

Community volunteering opportunities

Job summary

Westpac Group in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, is seeking a Software Automation Engineer to design and implement robust automation frameworks for enterprise applications. You will automate testing, validate data migrations, and collaborate with engineers, architects, BAs and delivery teams to resolve complex challenges.

The role is full-time, hybrid, and focused on improving testing efficiency, CI/CD practices, and leveraging AI agents to accelerate test data generation and script creation.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and improving automation frameworks for enterprise apps.
• Hands-on with TypeScript, Java, Python, Selenium, UFT, API testing or similar.
• Experience using SQL/MySQL to analyse data, validate outcomes and investigate defects.
• Understanding of CI/CD practices and DevOps in testing.

Responsibilities

• Automate testing processes across multiple enterprise applications.
• Validate large-scale data movements and investigate defects.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, BAs and delivery teams to solve challenges.
• Improve automation capability and accelerate delivery with AI-assisted testing.

Skills

Automation frameworks

TypeScript

Java

Python

Selenium

UFT

API testing

SQL

CI/CD

DevOps

AI for testing

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Selenium

UFT

APITest tools

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

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.
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