Senior Quality Engineer

Qantas Airways
Adelaide
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: QA, Test & Release EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Mentoring","Collaboration","Stakeholder management","Quality mindset","Root cause analysis"]

Embed quality engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle in agile squads, ensuring high reliability, scalability, and customer-focused digital experiences. Own the quality strategy and automation roadmap, building scalable automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright/Cypress) and integrating them into CI/CD. Drive BDD/shift-left testing, lead API and contract testing across microservices, improve test frameworks and observability, and mentor engineers to raise the quality bar.

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Qantas Airways
Qantas Airways
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Senior Quality Engineer

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Job Summary

Embed quality engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle in agile squads, ensuring high reliability, scalability, and customer-focused digital experiences. Own the quality strategy and automation roadmap, building scalable automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright/Cypress) and integrating them into CI/CD. Drive BDD/shift-left testing, lead API and contract testing across microservices, improve test frameworks and observability, and mentor engineers to raise the quality bar.
Location: Adelaide
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: QA, Test & Release Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Embed quality engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle, partnering with engineers, product owners, and stakeholders.
  • •Define and own the quality engineering strategy and automation roadmap for the domain, setting standards for other engineers.
  • •Design and build scalable automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright/Cypress) and integrate them into CI/CD for continuous delivery.
  • •Champion BDD and shift-left testing practices, influencing story design, acceptance criteria, and definition of done.
  • •Lead test strategy for APIs and distributed systems, including contract testing and cross-browser testing, and drive root cause analysis for high-impact defects.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Travel AllowanceParental LeaveSalary PackagingWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or Test Automation roles within Agile delivery environments.
  • •Experience defining and owning quality engineering strategy and an automation roadmap for a domain.
  • •Strong ability to design and build scalable automation frameworks and embed them in CI/CD.
  • •Proven experience with BDD and shift-left testing, including influencing story design, acceptance criteria, and definition of done.
  • •Experience with APIs, contract testing, and API test automation across service boundaries.
Experience:6+ yearsAgile deliveryAutomationMicroservicesAPIs
Skills:MentoringCollaborationStakeholder managementQuality mindsetRoot cause analysis
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PlaywrightCypressCI/CDBDDPactREST AssuredSplunkDatadogJira ZephyrLambdaTestBrowserStackMicroservicesAPIs

Company Brief

Qantas Airways
Australia’s flag carrier providing domestic, international and freight air services, operating Qantas, Jetstar and QantasLink brands, plus a loyalty business (Qantas Frequent Flyer) and aviation services.
Industry: Airlines
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Mascot, NSW, Australia
Founded: 1920
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