Test Lead

Mecca Brands; Richmond Shire; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Health initiatives

Reward programs

Bonus programs

Product allowance

Staff discount

Job summary

MECCA Brands is seeking a Test Lead to own quality across five squads (three web, two app). This hybrid role blends hands-on testing with people leadership, guiding a team of Test Analysts and Test Engineers while shaping testing strategy early in discovery and design.

You will drive shift-left testing for performance, accessibility and automation, partner with the Automation Lead, and stay hands-on with CI/CD, observability tools, and QA practices across the product suite including PDP uplift

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Test Lead guiding testers.
• Proactive early engagement in discovery and design.
• People management across multiple squads.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Test Analysts and Test Engineers across 5 squads.
• Join discovery/design to identify quality risks early.
• Champion shift-left testing for performance, accessibility, resilience and automation.
• Partner with Automation Lead on automation, performance and accessibility testing.
• Own quality outcomes with a 50/50 split of manual and automated testing.
• Be the central testing communicator with Tech Leads and Product Managers.
• Stay hands-on with automation and CI/CD in an agile environment.
• Incorporate observability into the team’s testing approach with engineering.
• Support quality across projects including PDP uplift and fulfilment features.

Skills

Test Lead

QA/testing

Automation

Playwright

API testing

Postman

Observability tooling

Datadog

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Playwright

Postman

Datadog

Azure DevOps

Job description

About the job

At MECCA, quality isn’t a phase we bolt on at the end — it’s built in from the very first conversation. As our new Test Lead, you’ll be the senior quality voice across five squads (three web, 2 app), shaping how testing gets done long before a line of code is written.

This is a shift-left role at heart. You’ll be in the room during discovery and design, asking the right questions early so performance, accessibility, resilience and automation are planned for up front — not scrambled together at the end. You’ll guide a team of Test Analysts and Test Engineers across a 50/50 split of manual and automated testing, and work closely with our Automation Lead, Tech Leads and Product Managers to keep quality front and centre in everything we ship.

It’s a genuinely hybrid role — part hands-on practitioner, part people leader, part quality strategist — sitting right at the centre of communication across our web and app squads.

The Role You Could Play

• Act as the senior quality lead across 5 squads (3 web, 2 app), directly guiding and mentoring a team of Test Analysts and Test Engineers.
• Get involved early — join discovery and design conversations to proactively identify quality risks before they become problems.
• Champion a shift-left approach to testing, planning up front for performance, accessibility, resilience and automation.
• Partner closely with our Automation Lead as an enabler for automation, performance and accessibility testing initiatives.
• Own quality outcomes across a 50/50 split of manual and automated testing, adjusting the balance as projects demand.
• Be the central point of communication for testing — building trusted relationships with Tech Leads and Product Managers and influencing decisions rather than just reporting bugs.
• Stay hands-on with automation and CI/CD in an agile delivery environment.
• Bring observability practices into the team’s testing approach, working alongside engineering to catch issues before customers do.
• Support quality across our current wave of projects, including the website PDP uplift (with AI-assisted product Q&A, suggestions and interactivity) and fulfilment initiatives such as parcel lockers and estimated delivery date improvements.

What You Will Bring

• Strong experience in QA/testing, including 5+ years working as a Test Lead, guiding and developing other testers.
• A genuine early-engagement mindset — proactive, curious, and comfortable asking the right questions from day one of discovery.
• People management experience, and confidence guiding a team spread across multiple squads.
• Hands-on automation experience, including Playwright, and API testing experience with Postman.
• Exposure to observability tooling (e.g. Datadog) and an interest in using it to strengthen the team’s testing approach.
• Comfort working in agile delivery environments with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence Tech Leads and Product Managers, not just flag defects.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to juggle multiple squads and priorities at once.

Nice to Have

• Experience in retail or eCommerce environments.
• Experience with mobile app release testing and processes.
• Accessibility testing experience, including WCAG standards.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted testing tools or approaches.Exposure to performance testing.

Your Life At MECCA

Whilst we are singularly focused on our #CustomerFirst mantra, we know that wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team that is guided by our MECCA values and motivated each and every day to be solutions focused, innovative, collaborative and adaptable, and have a bit of fun along the way!

Some of our other team member benefits include:

• Professional development programs and first-class digitised learning offering
• Health and well-being initiatives
• Reward and recognition programs
• Access to bonus and incentive programs
• Access to quarterly product allowance
• Generous discount to spoil yourselves and your immediate family, as well as a generous product allowance, subject to company policy

There are also so many other ways in which you’ll be made to feel part of the MECCA story as we love to celebrate, surprise and delight our team along the way.

To learn more about life at MECCA Brands, follow us on LinkedIn at MECCA Brands or @lifeatmecca , and for all current opportunities, visit www.mecca.com.au/careers.