Software Automation Engineer

Westpac Bank; Gold Coast City; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Leave options: Culture, Lifestyle and

Wellbeing leave

Job summary

Westpac Bank is seeking an Automation Engineer to design and extend automation frameworks for enterprise applications. You will automate testing, validate large data movements, and investigate issues across multiple teams in a hybrid Surfers Paradise setting.

Join a collaborative team focused on faster, higher-quality delivery, applying AI-assisted testing, data validation, and modern DevOps practices to support business lending technology.

Qualifications

• Must design, build and improve automation frameworks for enterprise apps.
• Hands-on with TS, Java, Python, Selenium, UFT or similar tools.
• Experience querying SQL/MySQL to validate outcomes and investigate defects.
• Understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, and continuous testing practices.
• Experience using AI agents to accelerate testing and data generation.

Responsibilities

• Automate testing processes across enterprise applications.
• Validate large-scale data movements and reconcile results.
• Investigate defects and issues; escalate to engineers and analysts as needed.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to improve automation capability and speed of delivery.
• Contribute to better testing practices and efficient workflows across teams.

Skills

Automation frameworks

TypeScript

Java

Python

Selenium

UFT

API testing

CI/CD

Data analysis

SQL

Data migration

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

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

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.

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