Test Automation Engineer - 6 month Max term contract

Leidos; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Australia seeks an experienced API & Integration Test Automation Engineer to design, develop and maintain automated test solutions for healthcare and enterprise applications. You will build robust API and integration testing frameworks, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, and validate interoperability platforms.

The role focuses on REST/SOAP, data validation and security testing within an Agile environment, collaborating with engineers and solution architects to ensure testability

Qualifications

• Design and develop automated API/integration testing frameworks.
• Validate APIs with REST/HTTP, JSON/XML and contract testing.
• Implement automated testing within CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or similar).
• Analyze logs, troubleshoot integration issues and ensure testability in designs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automated API/integration tests.
• Support REST, SOAP and event-driven integration patterns.
• Integrate testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
• Collaborate with engineers and architects to embed testing early.
• Investigate failures, produce metrics and drive improvements in practices.

Skills

API testing

Test automation

REST/HTTP

CI/CD

Agile delivery

collaboration

Troubleshooting

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

About Leidos Australia

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life. Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter. Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work.

Benefits

• Flex Your Way - Tailor work to your life with options includeing Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
• Wellbeing That Matters - Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
• Learn Without Limits - Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
• Work That Makes an Impact - Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
• Build Your Future - Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.
• And Much More - These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

About the Team

You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes. The Civil Digital Modernisation business delivers IT services to Australian Federal and State Government departments and agencies to accelerate digital modernisation and ensure secure, resilient, and adaptive environments that meet evolving regulatory, compliance, and business needs. Our approach integrates advancing data, AI, cloud, and automation delivering agility, security, efficiency, and innovation at scale.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced API & Integration Test Automation Engineer until March 2027 to design, develop and maintain automated testing solutions supporting healthcare and enterprise applications. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality software outcomes by building robust API and integration test automation frameworks, integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines, and supporting validation of healthcare interoperability solutions and enterprise integration platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automated API and integration test suites, including functional, integration, regression and end-to-end test scenarios.
• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks supporting REST, SOAP and event-driven integration patterns, including API validation, schema validation and data integrity testing.
• Build and support automated test execution within Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, integrating testing into deployment and release processes to support quality gates and continuous delivery.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, platform engineers and solution architects to ensure testability is embedded within solution design and delivery.
• Analyse test failures, perform root-cause investigations, produce quality metrics and test evidence, and contribute to continual improvement of testing practices and automation standards.

About You

We are looking for someone who brings judgement, curiosity and a collaborative approach to work that matters.

Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated experience designing, developing and maintaining automated API and integration testing frameworks, with experience in software testing, quality engineering or test automation.
• Strong understanding of REST, HTTP/S, JSON, XML, API contract testing principles and experience validating APIs through assertions, schema validation, authentication and negative testing scenarios.
• Experience implementing automated testing within Azure DevOps or similar CI/CD environments, alongside modern software delivery practices and Git-based source control.
• Experience testing authentication and authorisation frameworks including OAuth2, OpenID Connect and token-based security models, with the ability to analyse logs and troubleshoot complex integration issues.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and collaborating effectively with engineering, architecture and platform teams.
• Exposure to healthcare interoperability standards including HL7 FHIR, healthcare integration platforms, API testing tools and cloud-native environments will be highly regarded.
• This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen and hold, or be eligible to obtain, Baseline security clearance.

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At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range: The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here.

Securing Your Data

Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to [e-mail].

Commitment and Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.