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We're seeking a Principal Engineer for a high-impact transformation role across one of our most critical global technology programs.

The mandate is to help shift quality from a predominantly phase-based QA model toward an engineering-led approach where software is designed for testability, automated assurance is built into delivery, and release confidence increasingly comes from evidence generated continuously throughout the software development lifecycle.

Working across multiple engineering squads, you'll define the target quality engineering model, build the foundations needed to make it real, and leave behind sustainable practices that engineering teams can continue to mature.

Key Responsibilities

- Define the quality engineering strategy and target operating model across Engineering, QA and DevOps, establishing explicit ownership for quality from refinement and design through development, release and production.
- Make quality an engineering responsibility, embedding testability, automated coverage and quality considerations into refinement, solution design, development and code review rather than relying on a downstream testing phase.
- Make release a business decision, not an engineering event - feature flagging, progressive rollout,



and dormant deployment ahead of feature release.
- Accelerate automated test coverage in the areas that provide the greatest release confidence and reduction in manual regression effort, while ensuring automation remains reliable, maintainable and meaningful.
- Strengthen CI/CD practices with Engineering and DevOps, including branching and integration strategies, automated pipelines, feature management, progressive deployment and consistent promotion across environments.
- Establish a risk-based test strategy that defines the appropriate balance of unit, integration, contract, API, UI/end-to-end, performance, exploratory and manual testing based on the nature and risk of each change.
- Build reference implementations and engineering standards for automated testing, test architecture, pipeline integration and quality gates that squads can adopt consistently.
- Stay hands-on, prototyping difficult solutions, contributing to automation and pipeline implementation, reviewing code and architecture, and solving engineering problems where testability, deployability or reliability are at stake.
- Use quality and delivery metrics to demonstrate progress.
- Influence senior technical and non-technical stakeholders, including enterprise clients, translating quality risk and delivery cadence into commercial language.

What You Bring





- Deep software engineering experience with the technical credibility to work directly with senior engineers, Tech Leads, QA engineers and DevOps specialists.
- Demonstrated experience leading a significant quality engineering transformation, moving teams from predominantly manual or phase-based testing toward automated, engineering-owned quality.
- Experience building or materially improving test automation frameworks and integrating automated quality signals into CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong, current CI/CD experience, including build and deployment pipelines, source control and branching strategies, feature management and progressive delivery practices.
- A strong full-stack engineering background, ideally with technologies such as React, Node.js and TypeScript.
- Experience improving testability within application architecture and influencing engineering design rather than treating testing as a separate downstream activity.
- Comfort operating in a global, multi-market and multi-tenant product environment where production stability and enterprise client confidence are critical.
- Cloud platform experience, preferably AWS.
- Excellent communication skills, from detailed technical discussions through to senior executive and client conversations.

What We Offer

- A rare opportunity to combine technical depth with strategic leadership across large-scale platforms.
- A clear, high-impact mandate - the delivery model is the problem to solve, and you own it.
- A fast-paced, collaborative environment that values hands-on problem solvers.
- Competitive remuneration and benefits.
- Work alongside a team of industry leaders on transformative, high-impact projects.

📌 Principal Engineer - Quality Engineering & Continuous Delivery (Sydney)
🏢 Software At Scale
📍 Sydney