Senior Automation Engineer

About Us

UniSuper is a workplace where highly skilled professionals are empowered to Think Great and deliver exceptional retirement outcomes for our members. With a culture grounded in accountability, collaboration and care, your work contributes directly to members’ longterm financial security.

The Technology & Delivery team ensures the sustained health and maintenance of UniSuper’s core systems and platforms - to provide high availability, stability, and performance.

The role

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will deliver scalable, reliable test automation solutions and contribute to quality engineering practices within delivery squads. You’ll support engineers, product owners and platform teams through automation-first practices, strong engineering discipline and continuous improvement. Furthermore, you will:

Deliver risk-based, automation-first test approaches aligned to delivery needs

Deliver automation frameworks and test suites across UI, API and integration layers

Improve test reliability, maintainability and CI/CD execution

Support shift-left practices, including BDD, TDD and early test design

Analyse defects, test results and production incidents to identify quality gaps

Contribute to shared quality capability through collaboration and knowledge sharing

About you

You bring strong hands-on test automation experience within agile delivery environments and enjoy solving complex quality challenges. You collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, balancing quality outcomes with delivery pragmatism. In addition, you will:

Experience delivering and maintaining automation suites at scale

Proficiency in Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, RestAssured, Pytest or TOSCA

Strong understanding of API, integration and contract testing

Experience supporting automated tests within CI/CD pipelines

Understanding of microservices, cloud-native architectures and test data management

A tertiary qualification in a related discipline, or equivalent experience

What We Offer

UniSuper believes that the best way to achieve great things is when we come together and collaborate. Therefore, we ask you to be able to commit to 60% of your time in office. UniSuper is proud of our culture and benefits, which empower our people to achieve their full potential, thrive, and grow their career with us. These include:

17% superannuation contribution

$1,500 annual development funding

20 weeks paid parental leave

Three additional paid leave days

It should go without saying, but at UniSuper, we value and celebrate diversity and inclusion. We believe that a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, interests, abilities, and skills is crucial for delivering great retirement outcomes for our members. We invite you to apply for the roles that suit your career aspirations, even if you don’t meet all the requirements.