Job Description

Overviewn

Our client is a major enterprise organisation committed to safety as a core value, where working safely is a fundamental condition of employment. Operating within complex environments, the business drives excellence across business-as-usual, projects, and vendor ecosystems. They foster a collaborative culture that values rigorous quality assurance, continuous improvement, and robust operational readiness.

About the Rolen

We are looking for a hands-on technical Test Automation Lead to define and refine the enterprise test automation strategy and translate it into a prioritised implementation roadmap. This role lifts risk-based automated coverage, reduces manual regression effort, and establishes reliable automation across BAU, projects, and vendors.

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You will own the automation operating model, principles, guardrails, standards, governance, and best practices aligned with enterprise QA frameworks and release governance requirements.

Key Responsibilitiesn

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- Strategy & Operating Model: Define, refine, and implement the enterprise automation strategy, operating model, standards, and governance across BAU, projects, and vendors.
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- Roadmap & Backlog Management: Maintain a prioritised implementation and coverage roadmap based on business risk, application criticality, and delivery demand, demonstrating progress through completed automation increments.
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- CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with risk-appropriate execution triggers, establish reliable regression release gates, and manage failed runs and exceptions.
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- Framework Evolution: Design, maintain, and scale automation frameworks and reusable assets (including Tosca and Playwright estates), review code, monitor framework stability, and manage technical debt.
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- Regression Triage: Triage the regression estate into automate, retain-manual, or retire, reducing flaky tests and improving execution times.
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- Comprehensive Automation: Design and maintain UI, API, back-end, integration,



and end-to-end tests across complex enterprise workflows (including authentication, authorisation, and error handling).
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- Environment & Data Coordination: Coordinate environment readiness, test data management, and service virtualisation for repeatable automated execution alongside cyber security and setting owners.
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- Leadership & Mentoring: Lead and mentor automation engineers across teams through hands‑on delivery, code reviews, technical guidance, and shift‑left testing practices.
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- Defect Analysis & Quality Assurance: Analyse defects and test failures, close risk‑based coverage gaps, and assure the quality and coverage of automation delivered by vendors and system integrators.
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- Reporting & Governance: Report coverage, pass rates, execution times, flakiness, and manual effort displaced to stakeholders, supplying evidence for business‑case development and benefits tracking.
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What You'll Bringnn
- Minimum of 8 years' experience in test automation, including at least 3 years in senior or lead roles.
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- Proven experience defining enterprise automation strategy and implementing prioritised roadmaps, operating models, standards, and governance through sustained delivery.
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- Strong programming and scripting proficiency in relevant languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or Python, with the ability to review code and guide engineers.
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- Demonstrated architecture, design, and maintenance of scalable automation frameworks, reusable components, and maintainable test assets.
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- Hands‑on API, integration, and end‑to‑end automation experience across complex, multi‑vendor enterprise systems.
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- Familiarity with API automation frameworks such as Postman, REST Assured, Karate, Playwright API, or similar.
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- Strong CI/CD and DevOps experience integrating reliable automated tests and release gates into delivery pipelines.
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- Ability to coordinate automation priorities across BAU, projects, CI pods, and vendors while assuring partner quality.
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- Proven leadership and mentoring capabilities across multiple teams, with strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
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📌 Test Automation Lead (Brisbane)
🏢 Exclaim IT
📍 Brisbane