Leading a team of 15 SDETs and testing professional, supporting multiple Product and Engineering teams.
As the environment continues to evolve, there is an opportunity to bring greater consistency across quality practices, strengthen governance and create clearer standards across the complete quality lifecycle.
This role needs a strong people leader who can create a clear direction, bring teams together around common quality principles and continue developing capability across both people and practices.You'll define what good looks like while ensuring quality standards remain practical, scalable and aligned to a modern cloud engineering environment.What you'll be doingLead, coach and develop a team of SDETs and testing professionalsDefine and implement quality strategy, principles, standards and governanceEstablish consistent quality gates, entry and exit criteria and release-readiness practicesDrive an automation-first approach and strengthen automated testing within CI/CD pipelinesImprove testing practices across cloud applications, APIs and microservicesStrengthen defect management, root-cause analysis and continuous improvementEnsure appropriate testing across performance, resilience, security, scalability and observabilityPartner with Product, Engineering, Architecture and SRE to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycleEstablish meaningful quality metrics and provide visibility of release readiness and riskBuild a strong team culture with clear expectations,



development opportunities and a shared sense of purposeAbout youYou'll be an experienced Quality Engineering or Test leader who has successfully developed teams and improved quality capability within complex software environments.
You'll bring strong experience across test automation, CI/CD and cloud-based solutions, together with a solid understanding of APIs and microservices.You understand the complete testing lifecycle and have the technical credibility to guide experienced SDETs, challenge thinking where required and determine the appropriate level of testing before software progresses into production.You'll be comfortable assessing existing practices, identifying opportunities for improvement and establishing greater consistency across teams.
You'll know how to introduce clear standards and accountability while engaging experienced technical people in the journey.Ideally, you'll bring experience across:Leading Quality Engineering, SDET or Test Automation teamsBuilding or improving test automation frameworksCloud or SaaS software environmentsAPIs and microservicesCI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates and BDD practicesRelease assurance and release-readiness governancePerformance, load, security and resilience testingPlaywright and GitLab or similar modern engineering toolingYour leadership style will be confident, collaborative and pragmatic.
You'll create clarity and direction while giving people the coaching and support they need to continue developing.
If you've led Quality Engineering in a modern cloud software workplace and want the opportunity to shape both the team and the quality capability, we'd like to hear from you.
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📌 Quality Engineering Lead (Brisbane)
🏢 Mansell Taylor Consulting
📍 Brisbane