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 Environment 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.