Senior Automation Tester

Senior Automation Tester

📍 Location: Canberra, ACT (Hybrid – Full-time onsite initially, then minimum 2 days onsite per week)

⏳ Contract Duration: Initial contract to 30 June 2027 + 2 x 12 month extension options

💼 Industry: Federal Government ICT Projects

🔒 Security Requirement: Candidates must have or be able to obtain Baseline Security Clearance

About the Opportunity

An experienced Senior Automation Tester is required to support a major federal government transformation and platform migration program within a complex enterprise ICT environment.

This opportunity will suit a highly capable automation testing professional with strong experience designing, developing, and maintaining modern automation frameworks while working collaboratively across Agile delivery teams.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring system stability, quality assurance, and business continuity throughout a large-scale enterprise platform migration.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks and scripts
• Plan and manage automation testing activities across project delivery lifecycles
• Execute functional, regression, integration, API, and system testing activities
• Support CI/CD integration and DevOps-aligned testing practices
• Identify, manage, and escalate testing risks, defects, and dependencies
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, project managers, and stakeholders
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to testing team members
• Produce clear and accurate test plans, reports, and technical documentation
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across testing practices and frameworks

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong experience in automation testing within enterprise ICT environments
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium/WebDriver, Cypress, or similar automation frameworks
• Strong scripting/programming capability in JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Experience working with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab, or similar DevOps tooling
• Experience testing APIs, databases, and web-based applications
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and SDLC practices
• Experience producing automation test strategies, plans, and reporting artefacts
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Previous Federal Government experience highly regarded

Desirable Experience

• Experience supporting large-scale migration or transformation programs
• Exposure to LeanFT / UFT Developer
• Experience working within Testing Centres of Excellence (TCoE)
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior testers and delivery teams

Why Apply?

• Long-term federal government contract opportunity
• High-profile enterprise transformation program
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Opportunity to work within complex enterprise ICT environments
• Competitive market rates