Senior Quality Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions, to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the end-to-end software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset, collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.

Must Have

• Lead the shift-left movement, embedding quality from the first line of code.
• Teach and inspire teams to write testable, high-quality code and implement automation smartly.
• Be the quality evangelist, mentoring teams and driving best practices for test automation.
• Architect rock-solid test automation frameworks that scale across microservices, APIs, and cloud platforms.
• Collaborate, innovate, and challenge the norm to level up the entire engineering squad.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines with intelligent automation to reduce manual intervention.
• Dive deep into performance, security, and reliability testing for system robustness.
• Improve test efficiency by eliminating flaky tests and ensuring reliable automation.
• Stay on top of emerging tech, introducing innovative testing approaches.
• A problem-solver thriving in complex, large-scale projects.
• A continuous learner, eager to grow and make an impact.
• Hands-on expert in test automation (Java, Selenium, Playwrite, Cucumber, RestAssured, API/Microservice testing).
• Strong knowledge of TDD, BDD, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Designed and built scalable automation frameworks for distributed systems.
• Passion for mentoring and coaching teams to foster a test-first mindset.
• Strong database testing skills, performance testing expertise, and infrastructure testing understanding.
• Ability to collaborate with leadership, developers, and product teams to drive quality culture.
• Deep experience in DevOps, cloud platforms (Azure), and microservices contract testing.

Good to Have

• Experience in building a quality-first culture.
• Experience implementing AI-driven test automation to enhance productivity.
• Worked in telecom (OSS/BSS).
• Solid grasp of security testing and validating AI results.
• Dabbled in AI-driven test automation or keen to learn.
• Experience in performance and load testing applications and APIs at high volumes.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.

Perks & Benefits

• Opportunity to thrive your way.
• Foster new ideas and embrace different ways of working.
• Inclusive and diverse team for future innovation.
• All Roles Flex policy for flexible working arrangements.

About Us:

At Telstra, our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. It's a future that won't happen on its own, it has to be delivered — and only Telstra can bring together all the parts to create it. Telstra is on a mission to redesign the way we all connect - with leading-edge technologies and solutions that are changing the world. And this is where YOU come in, by playing your part to building in help our customers connect: faster, better and smarter.

Why Telstra?

Telstra is a well-known Australian company that has been around for over 100 years. We are the leading telecommunications and technology company in Australia and have been operating internationally for over 70 years. We have a strong presence in over 20 countries. In India, we have offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, and Delhi, as well as an Innovation and Capability Centre in Bangalore. We are focused on using innovation, automation, and technology to solve major technological challenges in areas such as IoT, 5G, AI, and machine learning. Joining Telstra gives you the chance to make a difference in the lives of millions of people and have a rewarding career with flexibility.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the shift-left movement—bake quality into development from day one. You'll take the lead in embedding quality from the very first line of code!
• Teach & inspire teams to write testable, high-quality code and implement automation smartly (TDD, BDD, unit testing space —you name it!).
• Be the quality evangelist in Telstra—mentor teams, drive best practices, and set the standard for test automation. Coach and mentor developers, teaching them how to test better and earlier.
• Architect rock-solid test automation frameworks that scale across microservices, APIs, and cloud-based platforms.
• Collaborate, innovate, and challenge the norm—quality is a team sport here, and you’ll help level up the entire engineering squad in Telstra.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines with intelligent automation that reduces manual intervention. Be the go-to expert on quality—from test strategies to DevSecOps pipelines, you’ll set the gold standard.
• Dive deep into performance, security, and reliability testing to ensure our systems can handle anything.
• Improve test efficiency by eliminating flaky tests and ensuring reliable automation across platforms.
• Stay on top of emerging tech, introducing innovative testing approaches to make quality engineering smarter.

What We’re Looking for

• A problem-solver who thrives in complex, large-scale projects and challenges the status quo, and shaking things up for the better.
• A Continuous learner, eager to grow and make an impact
• A hands-on expert in test automation (Java, Selenium, Playwrite, Cucumber, RestAssured, API/Microservice testing), you make quality seamless through code.
• Strong knowledge of TDD, BDD, and CI/CD pipelines—because testing is part of development, not an afterthought.
• You've designed and built scalable automation frameworks that keep up with fast-moving, distributed systems.
• Passion for mentoring and coaching teams— You'll help developers level up their test-first mindset and write rock-solid quality-oriented code.
• Strong database testing skills, performance testing expertise, and understanding of infrastructure testing.
• Ability to collaborate with leadership, developers, and product teams to drive quality as a culture.
• Deep experience in DevOps, cloud platforms (Azure preferably), and microservices contract testing - you know how modern apps should be tested.

What’ll Give You Bonus Points

• You've helped build a quality-first culture in previous roles.
• Experience in implementing any AI-driven test automation to enhance productivity.
• You’ve worked in telecom (OSS/BSS).
• You have a solid grasp of security testing and validating AI results—and you're not afraid to dive in and get hands-on when needed.
• You’ve dabbled in AI-driven test automation (or are super keen to learn it).
• Experience in performance and load testing of applications and api’s at super crazy volumes.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.

What can we offer you?

At Telstra, you can thrive, your way. We foster new ideas, we embrace different ways of working and thinking, and we believe an inclusive and diverse team will lead us to innovate for the future.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. To enable everyone to participate, we’ve developed an ‘All Roles Flex’ policy to consider flexible ways of working for every role. To learn more, visit our Telstra Careers Website: http://tel.st/allrolesflex

About Us

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. From our earliest days in the Postmaster General’s Office to the Australian icon we are today, the heart of Telstra has never changed. We’ve always been committed to being a great place to work as we make the world a better place too.

Working at Telstra, we all have a why. Whether it’s endless career opportunities, an amazing work-life balance or being able to make a difference, we all know why we’re motivated to be our best here. Our people find purpose and pride in being part of Telstra, because we support the things that matter most.

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