QA Automation Engineer - 6 Month rolling contract - GCP/API/ETL
Summary
Mid-level QA Automation Engineer on a multi-year contract (initial 6 months, extensions likely) with a major Australian organisation, hybrid in Sydney. Day to day is API, SQL/database, ETL and event-driven system testing, building automated integration and regression tests in a GCP environment. Pays $725/day.
Daily rate: $725 p/d | Multi-Year Contract Opportunity | Hybrid
We’re looking for a Mid-Level QA Automation Engineer to join a major Australian organisation on a large-scale technology program.
This is a genuinely long-term, multi-year contracting opportunity, starting with an initial 6-month contract and offering strong potential for ongoing extensions across a significant pipeline of work.
You’ll be working across backend, data and cloud-based systems, with a strong focus on API, database and data-flow testing within a GCP environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
- API testing across complex backend services and integrations
- SQL testing and validation across databases and large datasets
- Testing ETL processes and end-to-end data flows
- Testing event-driven systems and messaging technologies
- Validating cloud-native environments within GCP
- Building and maintaining automated integration and regression tests
- Working across microservices and distributed systems
- Collaborating closely with developers, SREs and architects
- Strong GCP experience
- Strong SQL experience
- Strong API testing experience
- Good understanding of ETL
- Experience with event-driven technologies
- QA automation experience within backend environments
- Experience testing microservices or distributed systems
- Python automation experience is highly desirable
- $725 per day
- Multi-year contracting opportunity
- Initial 6-month contract with ongoing extensions
- Immediate start
- Flexible hybrid working
- Large-scale, business-critical technology program