Software Automation Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave

Tailored learning and development

Volunteer initiatives

Job summary

Westpac Group is seeking an Automation Engineer to help deliver high quality, reliable technology solutions for Business Lending customers. You will build and enhance automation frameworks and support data migration activities across multiple enterprise applications.

The role is full time and hybrid, based in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, with responsibilities spanning automation, data validation and collaboration with cross-functional teams to accelerate delivery and improve testing efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and improving automation frameworks for enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with TypeScript, Java, Python, Selenium, UFT, API testing.
• Experience using SQL/MySQL to analyse data, validate outcomes and investigate defects.
• Understanding of CI/CD practices, DevOps and continuous testing.
• Experience using AI agents to accelerate testing, including test data generation and augmentation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement across teams.

Responsibilities

• Automate testing processes across enterprise applications.
• Validate large-scale data movements and investigate defects.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and delivery teams to solve complex challenges.
• Improve automation capability and foster better ways of working.

Skills

Automation frameworks

TypeScript

Java

Python

Selenium

UFT

API testing

SQL

CI/CD

DevOps

Test data generation

Communication

Tools

Selenium

UFT

API testing

Job description

Job Description

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?

• 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

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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