Quality Engineer

About the role

Qantas is looking for a Quality Engineer to join its Technology team at its new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide. The role embeds quality engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle, working in agile squads to contribute to manual and automated testing, strengthen test frameworks and deliver reliable, scalable digital solutions. The position is full-time and permanent.

Key responsibilities

• Design, create and maintain high-quality test cases using tools such as Jira Zephyr, with structured testing practices and attention to detail.
• Perform manual and automated testing across frontend and backend systems, covering end-to-end functionality of customer-facing applications.
• Run functional, regression and end-to-end (E2E) testing, applying sound testing methodologies and best practices.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks and test suites with tools such as Playwright or Cypress, improving coverage and efficiency in CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain UI and browser-based automated tests that validate real user journeys on customer-facing web applications.
• Perform cross-browser testing using tools such as LambdaTest and BrowserStack.
• Work with APIs and API testing tools such as REST Assured and Pact (contract testing).
• Collaborate with engineers, business analysts and stakeholders to plan and execute test strategies, including risk identification and mitigation.
• Contribute to documentation such as test guides, knowledge articles and test data strategies.
• Apply modern quality engineering techniques including BDD practices, coding standards and participation in automation code reviews.

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience in a Quality Engineering, Test Automation or Software Testing role, ideally in Agile delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, agile delivery experience and a proactive, detail-oriented mindset focused on continuous improvement.

Required skills

• Jira Zephyr for test case management
• Playwright or Cypress for automation
• REST Assured and Pact for API testing
• Splunk and Datadog (observability and monitoring tools) desirable

What we offer

• Hands-on training, coaching and formal learning programs.
• Discounted air travel within Australia and abroad, plus accommodation and holiday deals.
• Flexible leave, including 18 weeks of paid parental leave and the option to buy additional paid leave.
• Rewards discounts across shopping, food, insurance, health and wellbeing, and a salary packaging program.
• Wellbeing support, including a wellbeing app and a tailored nutrition plan.