Lead Automation QA Engineer

About the Role :

We are seeking a Senior Automation QA Engineer with deep expertise in test automation and AI-driven testing solutions for complex, high-availability payments platforms. This is a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and security of our payment processing systems, which serve millions of users across the globe.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of QA experience, a track record of building resilient automation frameworks, and a forward-thinking mindset around the application of AI / ML technologies in test engineering.

You’ll be joining a collaborative engineering team in Sydney / Melbourne working on critical systems with real-world financial impact and helping drive next-gen AI-driven automation practices in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and intelligent end-to-end test automation frameworks for a mission-critical payments ecosystem.
• Integrate AI-based testing tools and approaches to improve test coverage, reduce redundancy, and automate test creation and failure triage.
• Automate testing across APIs, payment gateways, backend services, and web / mobile UIs with a strong focus on performance, concurrency, and data accuracy.
• Implement AI-driven features like self-healing scripts, smart test prioritization, predictive defect analysis, and synthetic data generation.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and DevOps teams to ensure continuous testing is tightly integrated into the CI / CD pipeline.
• Ensure test automation frameworks handle real-time transaction flows, fraud detection logic, and compliance requirements (e.G., PCI DSS).
• Leverage tools like Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, Postman, Rest Assured, and modern AI testing platforms (e.G., Testim, Mabl, Applitools, Functionize).
• Participate in architectural reviews, sprint planning, and release cycles to deliver high-quality releases on time.
• Collaborate closely with developers, DevOps, product managers, and security teams to ensure test coverage and system quality

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