Quality Assurance Engineer

The Role

This role is a 12-month fixed-term contract opportunity to cover a period of leave.

The ABC is looking for a QA Engineer to help our teams deliver reliable, high-quality experiences across our web and content management platforms. You’ll work in a supportive product and engineering environment, partnering with developers, testers and product leaders to build confidence in every release through thoughtful test practices and automation.

The Job

You’re an experienced QA Engineer who enjoys working collaboratively to improve quality, reliability, and confidence in every release.

You'll have: 

• Demonstrated experience testing APIs, web applications and/or content management systems, ideally in a large-scale Java-based environment.
• Strong hands-on experience building test automation, including developing and maintaining automation frameworks and supporting tooling. Experience with frameworks such as Playwright and K6 are desirable.
• Development experience in at least one language, such as JavaScript or Typescript.
• Experience working with web applications, REST and GraphQL APIs, and CI/CD tooling in AWS (or a similar cloud environment).
• Experience testing and troubleshooting backend systems and infrastructure such as databases and AWS cloud services.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and help resolve complex technical issues
• Clear communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain technical information to a range of audiences.

About the ABC

The ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture, and stories. With over 4,500 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 60 locations around Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.

More info: 

In line with our focus on diversity and inclusion, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTQIA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce. 

To request recruitment and selection information in alternate formats, request adjustments, or if you have accessibility requirements please contact accessibility@abc.net.au

If you want to know more, please contact Brett Whyte, Recruitment and Projects Specialist, via whyte.brett@abc.net.au

We are unable to accept email applications, please ensure that you submit your application via the online portal.

We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.

Applications Close: 11:55pm, 24 August 2026