Senior Service Virtualisation Engineer

Experience: 10+ Years

Location: Melbourne

Contract Length: 6 Months

Role Purpose

Lead the design, implementation and adoption of an enterprise Service Virtualisation capability to accelerate shift-left testing, reduce environment dependency bottlenecks and improve delivery velocity across API, integration and event-driven ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership

- Define the Service Virtualisation roadmap, standards and operating model.
- Establish governance, asset management and reusable virtual service catalogues.
- Drive adoption across Quality Engineering, Architecture, Integration and Delivery teams.

Solution Design & Implementation

- Design and implement virtual services for:
- REST APIs
- SOAP Services
- GraphQL APIs
- Kafka/Event-driven integrations
- MQ/JMS messaging
- File-based integrations (SFTP/APST)
- Build configurable, reusable and stateful virtual services supporting both positive and negative test scenarios.

Tooling & Automation

- Lead evaluation and implementation of:
- BlazeMeter Service Virtualisation
- WireMock
- Mountebank
- Pact / Contract Testing frameworks
- Integrate virtual services into CI/CD pipelines and test automation frameworks.
- Establish repository and versioning strategy for virtual services and test data.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Facilitate workshops with Architecture, Platform, Integration and QE teams.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers and testers.
- Define onboarding and support processes for virtual service consumers.

Mandatory Skills

- Strong experience in Service Virtualisation and Integration Testing.




- Hands-on expertise with WireMock and/or Mountebank.
- Experience with BlazeMeter Service Virtualisation or similar enterprise SV platforms.
- Strong understanding of REST, SOAP, JSON, XML and OpenAPI/Swagger.
- Experience with Kafka, MQ/JMS and event-driven architectures.
- Knowledge of Contract Testing (Pact or equivalent).
- CI/CD experience using GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
- Strong stakeholder management and solution architecture skills.

Desirable Skills

- SAP integration testing
- Kong, MuleSoft, Tibco or API Gateway platforms
- AWS, Azure or GCP
- Test Setting Management
- Shift-left and Quality Engineering transformation initiatives

Success Measures (First 6 Months)

- Define Client’s Service Virtualisation strategy and standards.
- Establish governance and a reusable virtual service catalogue.
- Deliver a pilot capability for priority integrations (e.g. EMR, AVER, SAP).
- Implement API virtualisation, contract testing and CI/CD integration patterns.
- Reduce dependency-driven testing delays across selected programmes.
- Provide a scalable enterprise capability ready for wider adoption.

Ideal Profile

A hands-on Service Virtualisation Engineer who combines:

- Deep technical expertise in APIs and integrations
- Strong Quality Engineering background
- Enterprise architecture mindset
- Experience building and governing reusable virtual services
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead organisation-wide adoption

Preferred Backgrounds: Service Virtualisation Architect, Integration Test Architect, Quality Engineering Architect, or Enterprise Integration Specialist.

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