Quality Assurance Engineer

Salary: AUD 650 - 750 per day

Quality Assurance Engineer
12 month contract
Full-time onsite work required – Brisbane CBD / Remote applicants will not be considered

We're partnering with a global technology organisation to recruit an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer.

Joining a high-performing Agile team, you'll play a key role in delivering quality software solutions within a complex, data-rich enterprise platform. This position combines hands-on testing, test automation and quality engineering, with a strong focus on improving product quality across the full software delivery lifecycle.

Working within a team focused on modern data platform capabilities, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the quality of large-scale data processing solutions and help ensure the reliability, accuracy and performance of business-critical systems.

What you'll be doing

• Own end-to-end quality assurance for features and user stories
• Define test approaches and execute testing against acceptance criteria
• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases and quality documentation
• Design, build and maintain automated tests across UI, API and backend services
• Perform API testing, validation and access control testing
• Validate data flows, data pipelines and data transformations across distributed systems
• Perform automated data validation and data quality testing
• Verify the accuracy, completeness and integrity of data moving between systems
• Enhance and support Playwright and Cucumber automation frameworks
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Monitor, analyse and resolve automation failures
• Execute regression, exploratory and acceptance testing
• Support test environment and test data management
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers and team leads
• Communicate quality risks, issues and recommendations to stakeholders
• Champion quality engineering and shift-left testing practices

What you need to bring

• 4+ years' experience in QA and automation testing
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery and the SDLC
• Proven experience designing and maintaining automated test suites
• A proactive and self-sufficient approach, with the ability to identify blockers, engage stakeholders and drive outcomes independently
• Strong collaboration skills and a track record of working effectively within Agile teams
• Experience testing data-intensive applications or platforms would be highly regarded
• Strong test design, analysis and risk-based testing skills
• Hands-on REST API testing experience
• Experience testing authentication and role-based access controls
• Proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript and/or Java
• Strong experience using Playwright
• Experience with Cucumber or BDD frameworks
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions
• Strong troubleshooting and defect investigation skills
• Experience across both manual and automated testing
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills
• Experience producing test documentation and reporting

Bonus points for

• Working within enterprise-scale software environments
• Modernising, optimising or scaling automated testing frameworks
• Exposure to complex, high-volume and data-intensive platforms
• Championing quality engineering principles and shift-left testing practices
• Testing data platforms, data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes or distributed data processing solutions
• Supporting event-driven architectures and real-time streaming environments
• Building or executing automated data validation and data quality testing
• Knowledge of modern data technologies including Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake and Kafka
• Understanding of data transformation, lineage and end-to-end data quality concepts

Highly desirable technology experience

• Apache Flink
• Apache Spark
• Apache Iceberg
• Delta Lake
• Kafka or other event/streaming technologies
• Data pipelines, ETL/ELT or distributed data processing
• Automated data validation and data quality testing

Important to know

• Full working rights required
• This role will require the successful candidate to work on site in Brisbane full-time 5 days per week.
• Remote applicants will not be considered.

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If you wish to apply for this position, please submit your resume by clicking the 'Apply Now' button. For further information please contact Amy Watson at Clicks IT Recruitment on +61 429 171 544.

At Clicks we embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity. First Nations people are encouraged to apply.

We provide reasonable adjustments, including alternate formats to the recruitment process for individuals with a disability. If you
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