Software QA Engineer — Impactful, Innovative Testing

Nexigen Digital; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexigen Digital is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Melbourne to join our agile team. You will work on tests for internal and customer-facing systems, develop test plans, and drive quality improvements across projects.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, collaboration with developers, and mentoring others in QA best practices within a fast-growing Australian digital services company.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years' experience in the software development lifecycle (including personal & self-taught experience)
• Detail-oriented with ability to identify user experience problems
• Good understanding of software development and programming
• Curious and able to think outside the box to determine niche edge cases
• Strong problem-solving and debugging abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient with command line and Linux environments
• Strong understanding of relational databases (MySQL) and SQL queries
• Ability to create specific test scenarios via manual manipulation
• Experience with RESTful APIs and SOAP Web Services

Responsibilities

• Thoroughly test changes and new features across platforms
• Create detailed test plans and documentation to track outcomes
• Liaise with developers and stakeholders to fix defects and quality issues
• Ensure final work meets feature scope requirements
• Validate that features work as intended
• Educate engineers on defects and mentor improving self-testing

Skills

Attention to detail

Bug debugging

SQL queries

RESTful APIs

Linux CLI

Communication skills

Tools

SoapUI

Postman

BurpSuite

ZAP

Fiddler

Jira

Trello

Git

GitHub

PHP

React.JS

Job description

Nexigen Digital is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Melbourne to join our agile team. You will work on tests for internal and customer-facing systems, develop test plans, and drive quality improvements across projects.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, collaboration with developers, and mentoring others in QA best practices within a fast-growing Australian digital services company.