Automation Tester - Temporary opportunity until 30th November 2027

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW

Job category: Projects

Job location:

Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000

Job reference number: 105420

Employment type: Fixed Term Full-Time

Salary range: $111625.0-$122786.0

You see the big picture, you’ve always worked on a grand scale, and now you’re ready to re-focus on grand impact.

Your innovative mindset is key to creating solutions to complex problems. Our systems drive our organisational success and underpin every journey our customers take. This is your chance to be part of an expert team who build and refine seamless technology experiences.

In this role, you'll:

Working as an Automation Tester, you will largely be responsible for designing, writing, and maintaining automated test scripts and system workflows, using the team’s automation framework. You will understand new features, review requirements, and translate them into automated test scenarios, and test coverage.

Other duties & responsibilities will include (not limited to):

- Framework improvement and tooling - Enhancing the automation framework, improving test reliability, integrating with CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining test infrastructure
- Test execution, analysis, and defect reporting - Running automated test suites, analysing failures, identifying defects, and working with developers to resolve issues
- Collaboration and technical discussions - Participating in sprint planning, design discussions, and working closely with developers, product teams, and manual testers to ensure testability and quality

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack

About You:

For you to be really successful in this role, we believe you should meet all of the following criteria:





- At least 2+ years experience performing in a similar role, as described above
- Solid experience in UI automation
- An engineering, and/or computer science qualification
- Understanding, and/or a background within an Agile working environment
- Background within embedded systems
- Solid software architecture, and automation framework understanding

Nice to Haves:

- Strong C++/C# background, with a proven ability to read and understand development code
- Prior employment within the telecommunications sector
- Java, Python, and/or similar languages

This is a fixed-term versatile hybrid role until 30th of November 2027. 50% of your time will be office based, typically based from our offices in the CBD. This is a Grade 6 role, $111,625.00 - $122,786.00 + super.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

Flexible work options may be available. Learn more via Flexible work options and policy

Apply today

Applications close 11:59 PM, Wednesday 19th August 2026

For more information about this role, please contact ***********@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

Learn more about how to apply via Our recruitment process | Transport for NSW

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📌 Automation Tester - Temporary opportunity until 30th November 2027 (Sydney)
🏢 Transport For Nsw
📍 Sydney