Quality Engineer

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia's largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group's main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands - Qantas and Jetstar - operating regional, domestic, and international services.

• At Qantas, our teams come together to create new and unique experiences for our customers.
• A fantastic opportunity to lead a team that focuses on cutting-edge technology and engineering principles.
• Full-time and permanent position based at our new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide.

Join Qantas in our brand-new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide, where you'll play a key role in shaping high-quality digital experiences that truly meet customer needs. By embedding robust testing strategies and automation practices, you'll help ensure software reliability, performance, and security. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by delivering seamless experiences that strengthen customer trust and satisfaction.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join our Technology team. In this role, you will be instrumental in embedding quality engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring our applications perform at the highest standards of reliability, scalability and customer experience.

Working within agile squads, you will contribute to both manual and automated testing, strengthen our test frameworks, and collaborate closely with engineers, product owners and stakeholders to deliver innovative and highquality digital solutions.

Key Responsibilities and What You'll Bring

• Design, create and maintain high quality test cases using tools such as Jira Zephyr, applying structured testing practices and attention to detail
• Execute manual and automated testing across frontend and backend systems, ensuring comprehensive end to end coverage and product reliability for customer facing applications
• Perform functional, regression and end to end (E2E) testing, leveraging strong knowledge of testing methodologies and best practices
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks and test suites using modern tools such as Playwright or Cypress, contributing to improved coverage, efficiency and continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines
• Build and maintain robust UI and browser based automated tests that validate real user journeys across customer facing web applications
• Perform cross browser testing using tools such as LambdaTest and BrowserStack
• Experience working with APIs and API testing tools such as REST Assured and Pact (contract testing)
• Identify, triage and resolve defects, demonstrating strong analytical skills and the ability to clearly articulate customer impact and risk
• Collaborate with engineers, business analysts and stakeholders to plan and execute test strategies, including risk identification and mitigation
• Create and execute test plans, analyse results and troubleshoot issues, including root cause analysis of recurring defects
• Contribute to documentation such as test guides, knowledge articles and test data strategies to support quality outcomes
• Apply modern quality engineering techniques including BDD practices, coding standards and participation in automation code reviews
• Strong communication skills, with experience working in an Agile delivery environment
• Bring strong stakeholder engagement, agile delivery experience and a proactive, detail oriented mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk and Datadog desirable

Why Qantas?

At Qantas, your career can take you further than you imagined. You'll join a team where creativity and passion drives success. Together we dream big and deliver even bigger.

You'll find diverse opportunities to grow, personally and professionally. From day one, you'll be supported with hands-on training, coaching, and formal learning programs designed to help you excel. Your development is our priority because we know that when you thrive, so do our customers.

And while this role is your starting point at Qantas, it's just the beginning. We have a proud history of helping our people explore new paths and reach new heights - the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.

We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees.

We'll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment.You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.

We'll support your wellbeing: Whether it's learning to better support your own and others' mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Applications close on 12th July

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you'll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.