Overview
The Senior Quality Engineer (SQE) is responsible for ensuring the quality, resilience, and regulatory compliance of Westpac's Domestic Payments platforms, supporting key payment processes like OSKO, PayID and PayTo payments. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong test automation capability, experience testing vendor-supplied / packaged software, and a passion for modern quality practices, including contract testing and AI-assisted testing techniques. You will have the opportunity to influence how quality is built into large-scale, vendor-heavy platforms and will work on critical national payment infrastructure as part of a team modernising Quality Engineering through automation, contracts, and AI.
Responsibilities
* Design and execute automation-first, risk-based testing across APIs, integrations, and end-to-end payment flows.
* Build and maintain automated test solutions for complex, distributed payment systems.
* Implement and maintain contract testing to assure service-to-service interactions and protect against breaking changes.
* Validate vendor-supplied and packaged payment platforms, including upgrades, patches, and configuration changes.
* Reduce reliance on manual testing through scalable, reusable automation frameworks.
* Provide clear quality assessments to support release readiness and confidence-to-release decisions.
* Collaborate closely with engineers, product owners, solution designers, and delivery partners.
* Contribute to continuous improvement of Quality Engineering practices across the Domestic Payments program.
Essential Qualifications
* Extensive experience in Quality Engineering / Software Testing, ideally within payments, banking, or regulated environments.
* Strong experience with test automation, particularly API and integration testing.
* Experience testing vendor or packaged software products where source code access may be limited.
* Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern QE tooling.
* Strong data validation and SQL skills.
* Extensive experience with the following tools: Java (Spring Boot); Oracle; IBM MQ; Apache Kafka; Test Automation tooling (Selenium / Playwright / K6 / Postman / Newman); Design Patterns; Python / Perl / Linux (Bash).
Desirable Qualifications
* Experience with contract testing and interface validation.
* Exposure to real-time or domestic payments platforms.
* Practical use of, or strong interest in, AI-assisted testing techniques (e.g. intelligent test selection, defect analysis, test optimisation).
Personal Attributes
* Strong passion for automation and engineering-led quality.
* Curious, forward-thinking mindset with interest in emerging QE and AI capabilities.
* Confident communicator who can raise quality risks constructively.
* Comfortable working in high-stakes, always-on payment environments.
Why join us?
We're obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and are looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. We're committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are some of the ways we're already doing that:
* Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates.
* Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
* Tailored learning and development opportunities to help you grow your career within the bank.
* Opportunities to contribute to the community through volunteering initiatives.
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