Job Description

Quality Assurance Engineer

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12 month contract

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Full-time onsite work required – Brisbane CBD / Remote applicants will not be considered

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

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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.

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

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What you'll be doing

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



product managers and team leads
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- Communicate quality risks, issues and recommendations to stakeholders
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- Champion quality engineering and shift-left testing practices
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What you need to bring

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

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- Working within enterprise-scale software environments
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- Modernising,



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

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

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- Full working rights required
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- This role will require the successful candidate to work on site in Brisbane full-time 5 days per week.
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- Remote applicants will not be considered.
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#QAEngineer #QualityEngineering #TestAutomation #Playwright #APITesting #Agile #DataTesting #DataQuality #DataPlatform #ApacheSpark #ApacheFlink #Kafka #BigData #BrisbaneJobs #clicksitrecruitment

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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 require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process, please call 1300 254 *** or email***********@clicks.com.au

📌 Quality Assurance Engineer (Queensland)
🏢 Clicks It Recruitment
📍 Queensland