Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Purpose

n This Role, You Will

• Work closely with architects, software engineers and product owners to translate complex functional and non-functional requirements, and provide early feedback on risks in design and delivery.
• Own a concise test strategy for your initiative, covering functional, automation, non-functional and environment/data needs, aligned to the wider Test Like Ops approach.
• Prioritise testing by business impact and operational risk, focusing effort on the user journeys and failure paths that hurt the operation most.
• Build, maintain and adapt automation frameworks and harnesses, integrated into CI/CD for fast, reliable feedback.
• Push for production-like environments and realistic test data — including service virtualisation or stubbing where dependencies are unstable or vendor-controlled.
• Hold vendor-delivered solutions to defined entry/exit and acceptance criteria, demanding operationally meaningful evidence of readiness.
• Feed production incidents back into test design and regression so the same failures don't recur.
• Liaise with other release train teams to manage testing of cross-dependencies, and ensure test tools and metrics feed program and enterprise dashboards accurately.

Qualification

• To be considered for the role, you must meet the requirements below:
• 3 years in an Information Technology Degree or Honours or equivalent Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• 6+ years in quality engineering, including recent experience assuring operationally critical or 24/7 systems where downtime carries real business impact.
• Experience as a Software Quality Engineering lead or equivalent, looking after multiple products or an end-to-end initiative.
• Extensive hands-on experience developing UI and API automation frameworks, proficient in at least two languages (e.g. Java, Python, JavaScript) with strong coding practices.
• Practical experience with automation tooling (e.g. Selenium/WebDriver, Cucumber/Gherkin, JUnit/TestNG) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps or equivalent).
• Demonstrable non-functional testing depth — performance, resilience, failover/recovery and observability — treated as part of release confidence.
• Strong expertise in risk-based, context-driven and exploratory testing, using recognised heuristics.
• Experience delivering within a SAFe / Agile Release Train or equivalent PI-cadenced model.
• Experience assuring vendor-delivered solutions against measurable acceptance criteria.
• Desirable: exposure to security or compliance-driven environments (access control, surveillance, identity/integration platforms); test data management (synthetic generation/masking); production-like environment setup; and practical use of AI in QE.

Salary & Benefits