QA Engineer

Our client is looking for a hands-on QA Engineer to support the delivery of enterprise technology projects for an Australian-based organisation. This role is suited to someone with strong automation testing experience across mobile, web, API, and end-to-end testing environments.


The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining automated test coverage, supporting test strategy, managing test data, triaging defects, and contributing to quality reporting across a structured delivery program. Experience in payments, banking, fintech, or other regulated environments would be highly regarded.


Key Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on QA or test engineering experience within enterprise technology environments.
• Strong experience with automation testing tools such as Appium, Playwright, Puppeteer, Mocha, or similar frameworks.
• Hands-on experience writing end-to-end automation tests, not just configuring existing test tools.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing tools, including test case generation, synthetic test data, or risk-based test selection.
• Strong understanding of test data management, including synthetic or masked data, PII handling, and data compliance requirements.
• Strong defect triage, root-cause analysis, and issue reproduction skills.
• Comfortable working in structured environments with quality gates, severity-level defect tracking, and formal delivery metrics.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
• Reliable internet connection when working remotely, as the role will involve connecting to client-managed environments.
  

Desirable Skills

• API test automation experience, ideally across microservices environments.
• Experience within payments, card issuing, core banking, fintech, or other regulated financial technology domains.
• Experience preparing test strategies, test plans, or QA documentation for fixed-scope or iteration-based delivery models.
• Exposure to performance, resilience, or load testing tools such as k6, JMeter, or similar.
• Exposure to security testing practices or tools such as OWASP ZAP, SAST, DAST, or security quality gates.
• Experience contributing to internal QA playbooks, automation standards, or AI-assisted testing frameworks.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Buildkite or similar tools.
• Experience with test reporting, monitoring, or observability platforms such as Datadog.
• Willingness to work from a Manila-based office facility using provisioned devices if required.
  

Key Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy and test planning for each delivery iteration.
• Design, build, and maintain automated end-to-end tests using Playwright, Puppeteer, Mocha, or comparable frameworks.
• Collaborate with developers on API-level testing and ensure test coverage is designed into the solution early.
• Use approved AI-assisted testing tools for test case generation, synthetic or masked test data creation, and risk-based test prioritisation.
• Implement self-healing automation patterns where they reduce flaky tests and ongoing maintenance effort.
• Support non-functional testing coverage, including performance smoke testing, resilience checks, and security test integration.
• Triage, reproduce, and manage defects through to resolution during delivery and post-handover support windows.
• Ensure high-severity defects are tracked, escalated, and resolved in line with agreed quality gates.
• Partner with Business Analysts on acceptance criteria and with engineers on testability, test hooks, and automation coverage.
• Contribute test-quality insights to delivery reporting, including defect density, escaped defects, automation coverage, and quality trends.
• Support showcase demonstrations by presenting clear, evidence-based quality updates and testing outcomes.