Senior Quality Engineer – Automation
Melbourne | Hybrid | Financial Services domain
6 months contract role
We’re partnering with a well-established financial services organisation currently delivering a major security and platform modernisation program, and are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer with strong automation capability to join a high-performing engineering environment.
This is a hands-on QE role focused on improving automation maturity, supporting fast-moving delivery pipelines, and helping uplift quality practices across enterprise applications and integration-heavy systems. You’ll be working closely with developers, platform engineers, and delivery teams within a modern CI/CD environment undergoing critical security upgrades and platform enhancements.
Key responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks across enterprise applications
- Work hands-on with Playwright, Selenium, and TypeScript-based automation tooling
- Maintain, improve, and refactor legacy automation frameworks
- Support regression testing and release readiness across frequent deployment cycles
- Embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins
- Contribute to shift-left testing practices and quality engineering capability uplift
- Collaborate closely with developers and platform teams across cloud-hosted environments
- Support automation strategy, test scope definition, and continuous improvement initiatives
What we’re looking for:
- 7+ years’ experience across QA / Quality Engineering environments
- Extensive hands-on automation-focused QE experience
- Strong experience with Playwright, Selenium, and TypeScript automation frameworks
- Proven capability implementing and maintaining automation within CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working within enterprise delivery environments and Agile teams
- Strong understanding of regression testing and modern release practices
- Exposure to cloud-hosted or cloud-native applications (AWS highly regarded)
- Ability to work across both new and legacy automation environments
- Financial Services experience highly desirable
This is a strong opportunity to join a critical transformation program within a mature engineering environment, working on meaningful platform uplift initiatives with modern tooling and delivery practices.