Quality Assurance Engineer

• 12-month contract, full-time role
• Flexible ways of working including remote across Australia

The ABC is looking for a QA Engineer to help our teams deliver reliable, high-quality experiences across our web and content management platforms. You’ll work in a supportive product and engineering environment, partnering with developers, testers and product leaders to build confidence in every release through thoughtful test practices and automation. It is a 12-month fixed-term contract opportunity to cover a period of leave.

• With guidance from the Senior QA Engineer and Engineering Manager, develop and maintain complex automation frameworks for web, API, content management and back-end systems.
• Build a strong understanding of system requirements to help shape the development and implementation of an automation strategy, including script dependencies and constraints.
• Contribute to the product team’s strategy and approach to automation testing and support teams by sharing automation techniques and encouraging consistent practices.
• Analyse complex software systems and collaborate with stakeholders to improve design, including quality measures and governance reporting to help ensure applications perform according to specifications.
• Stay up to date with industry developments, and continue building your understanding of system functionality, system requirements, and the broader business strategy.

Position Description: 50042261 QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER BACKFILL.pdf

You’re an experienced QA Engineer who enjoys working collaboratively to improve quality, reliability, and confidence in every release.

• Demonstrated experience testing APIs, web applications and/or content management systems, ideally in a large-scale Java-based environment.
• Strong hands‑on development experience in test automation, including developing and maintaining complex automation frameworks (Playwright) and testing tools (K6).
• Development experience in at least one language, such as JavaScript or Typescript.
• Substantial experience working with web applications, REST and GraphQL APIs, and CI/CD tooling in AWS (or a similar cloud environment).
• Substantial demonstrated experience testing and troubleshooting backend systems and infrastructure such as databases and AWS cloud services.
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and help resolve complex technical issues.
• Clear communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain technical information to a range of audiences.
• ABC Principles: A commitment to the ABC Principles of We are ABC, Straight Talking, People Focused, Accountable and Open & Transparent.

The ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture, and stories. With over 4,500 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 60 locations around Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high‑quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.

In line with our focus on diversity and inclusion, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTQIA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender‑balanced workforce.

If you want to know more, please contact Brett Whyte, Recruitment Specialist via