Apply: Quality Engineering Lead – Automation

Reference: BH-185207
Must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident. 
Quality Engineering Lead – Automation (Hands-On)
Sydney | Barangaroo | Hybrid (3 days office)
$175k–$180k base + super + bonus

We’re looking for a hands-on Quality Engineering Lead (Automation) to step into a technical leadership role driving modern test automation solutions across a complex, enterprise environment.
This is a 100% automation-focused role — ideal for someone who still loves being on the tools while also providing technical guidance, setting standards, and uplifting quality practices across engineering teams.

What you’ll be doing
  • Lead and drive automation-first quality engineering solutions across multiple initiatives
  • Act as a technical lead, setting direction, standards, and best practice for test automation
  • Design, build, and maintain robust automated test frameworks (hands-on)
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers and testers
  • Partner closely with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to embed quality early
  • Own test strategy, automation coverage, and quality outcomes across delivery streams
  • Ensure automation is integrated into CI/CD pipelines and release processes
  • Champion continuous improvement in tooling, frameworks, and ways of working
Tech stack / skills
  • Strong hands-on experience with Java or JavaScript
  • Playwright (or similar modern automation framework) – hands-on
  • End-to-end web automation testing
  • CI/CD integration experience (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
  • Strong understanding of modern engineering practices and quality frameworks
About you
  • Proven experience in a technical lead or senior automation role
  • Still hands-on and enjoys solving complex technical problems
  • Confident providing technical guidance, direction, and quality leadership
  • Strong communicator who can influence across engineering and delivery teams
  • Passionate about building scalable, maintainable automation solutions
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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