Lead Quality Engineer

About the role

As a Lead Quality Engineer at Australian Payments Plus, you will be a hands‑on technical leader driving reliable, high‑quality payment experiences. You will translate the Quality Engineering strategy into practice, guide technical decisions and mentor peers while actively testing across delivery teams.

Key responsibilities

• Mentor Quality Engineering peers, build collaboration and continuous improvement across the cohort.
• Implement AP+’s Quality Engineering strategy, aligning testing approaches with product and business goals.
• Identify testable events, develop test cases and scripts, and perform hands‑on testing.
• Manage test environments, report results and support release management.
• Design, develop, execute and analyse functional, process, acceptance and non‑functional testing.
• Design and improve test automation frameworks, champion AI‑driven automation and test case generation.
• Embed functional and non‑functional testing in continuous delivery and represent Quality Engineering across stakeholders.

Required profile

• ~7+ years experience as a Quality Engineer or equivalent, with at least 5 years of hands‑on web, mobile and API testing.
• Experience in non‑functional testing and end‑to‑end delivery in an agile organisation.
• Proven ability to make sound testing decisions, mentor peers and communicate test outcomes clearly.
• Engineering degree or equivalent pathway; payments or fintech experience is a plus.

Required skills

• Cypress
• Playwright
• Jest
• Appium
• Selenium