As our highly valued Senior Test Engineer based in Brisbane, You are an influential engineering leader who helps ensure our digital platforms are safe, reliable, and fit for purpose. Through automation-first testing and strong engineering practices, you reduce delivery risk while enabling teams to move faster with confidence.
You'll make an impact by:
Test Engineering & Automation
•Engineer and maintain automated testing solutions across APIs, services, and platforms, with an automation-first mindset.
•Design and implement test frameworks covering functional, integration, performance, and security testing of APIs.
•Embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support fast, safe, and repeatable delivery.
•Ensure tests are reliable, maintainable, and provide fast feedback to delivery teams.
•Continuously improve test coverage, execution speed, and signal quality.
Pipeline, Environment & Test Data Engineering
•Design and manage test environments to support automated testing across the delivery lifecycle.
•Automate environment provisioning and configuration where possible to reduce manual effort and instability.
•Create and maintain automated test data strategies that support repeatable, reliable testing.
•Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure test environments are stable, secure, and fit for purpose.
Quality, Risk & Collaboration
•Work closely with engineers, architects, and product teams to embed quality early in solution design.
•Provide clear visibility of quality, risks, and test outcomes to stakeholders.
•Influence teams to adopt modern test engineering practices and shift-left quality approaches.
•Drive continuous improvement of tools, processes, and practices across the testing and engineering community.
Do things differently with us
To succeed in this role, you will have:
•Significant experience as a Test Engineer or Automation Engineer in modern delivery environments (typically 5+ years).
•Strong hands-on experience building automated tests for APIs and services.
•Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins or similar tooling).
•Proficiency with test automation frameworks and tools (e.g. Selenium, REST/API testing tools, contract testing).
•Experience with API performance testing and security testing tools (e.g. JMeter, FinSim, OWASP tooling).
•Strong understanding of version control and collaborative development practices (e.g. Git).
•Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams.
•Experience in financial services or regulated environments is helpful but not essential.
Why Great Southern Bank?
Whatever your role with us, you'll be part of a force for good. We're owned by our customers right here in Australia, so our success benefits everyday people and families. Working at Great Southern Bank, you'll also enjoy a range of fantastic benefits, some examples include:
* Helping you unlock a brighter future by investing in your development and wellbeing, offering you study leave, a day for you and professional wellbeing coaching.
* Benefits that support you and your wellbeing so that you can thrive at work and at home, today and tomorrow. Enjoy access to our wellbeing centre and the flexibility to work from home two days a week.
* Helping you to achieve your financial goals and positively impact your family and community. We offer discounts on a wide range of Great Southern Bank products and services such as savings and transaction accounts, insurance, home loans and more
Imagine working for a bank that truly helps people. You can.
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At Great Southern Bank, we're committed to building a strong, inclusive and diverse workplace, where people feel a sense of belonging and are valued, connected and respected. We value diverse backgrounds, cultures, abilities, ideas and experiences; recognising the benefits they bring to our work, our communities and the way we help our customers. We support and promote an inclusive culture through flexible ways of working, collaboration, and fair and equitable decision making that empowers our people to be at their best every day.
We
move with purpose, are curious about what's next, remain focused on what
matters most, and are always ready to find smarter ways to help our customers
and communities thrive. Our people bring energy and initiative to a
fast-changing environment, making thoughtful decisions that balance doing good
for our customers with driving sustainable success for our business. If you
enjoy working in a place where priorities evolve, ideas are valued, and every
action contributes to something bigger, you'll feel right at home here at Great
Southern Bank.