Job Description
Title: Automation Test Engineers APS5 and 6
Locations: Melbourne Sydney Canberra Brisbane
No of positions: 2
Fixed Term contract starting ASAP, till Jun 2026
APS5 salary $82,085
APS 6 salary $92,210
Please note that in addition to the salary, the role includes 15.4% contribution to superannuation, and flexitime (7am-7pm) along with paid holidays & sick leaves
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Citizenship requirement: Australian
Talent Street is currently looking for Automation Test Engineers (APS5 and APS6) for multiple fixed term positions for a federal govt agency. Initial term is till June 2026 with potential extension.
Responsibilities
The Test Automation Engineers will be responsible for the design, build, testing, deployment and maintenance of effective test automation solutions to ensure the quality, reliability and completeness of business systems deployed.
Some of their key responsibilities are:
- Undertake test automation projects in collaboration with key stakeholders, vendor representatives and other IT teams / experts
- Contribute to the development and implementation of test automation strategies and plans and develop test scripts
- Execute / trigger test cases in accordance with agreed strategy /plan and timeframes
- Analyse and review test automation results, modify tests where necessary and provide reports on progress, anomalies, risks and issues and recommendations for improvement
- Work collaboratively with key stakeholders, vendor representatives and other IT teams / experts to discuss test results and ensure that issues / problems that arise during test automation are resolved efficiently undertake manual testing, when appropriate
Skills & Experience
Required
- Experience in implementing and maintaining Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) automated testing frameworks
- Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Typescript, and Javascript
Good to have…
- Experience in automating tests for AWS hosted applications,
- Experience in triggering the execution of automated tests in a CI such as Gitlab, Jenkins, and MS Azure DevOps
- Experience in the use of Microsoft Playwright in testing GUIs of web applications
If interested, please Apply here or reach out to Sejal, Delivery Consultant @Talent Street on scheema@talentstreet.com.au