Functional & Automation Test Engineer (Senior Quality Engineer)

Planit is currently hiring an experienced Functional & Automation Test Engineer (Senior Quality Engineer) to join its Sydney consulting team. This exciting opportunity is ideal for professionals who bring a powerful combination of Functional Testing and Automation Testing expertise, along with hands-on experience in Playwright and TypeScript. As part of Planit's high-performing consulting practice, you will work with enterprise-scale Banking and Financial Services clients, helping organizations modernize testing practices, improve automation maturity, and deliver reliable software solutions faster. If you enjoy solving complex testing challenges, building automation frameworks from scratch, improving testing strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams, this role offers an excellent platform to accelerate your career.

Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript. Create reusable, maintainable, and high-performance automation scripts. Implement modern automation design patterns such as Page Object Model (POM) and modular framework architecture. Develop robust automation solutions instead of record-and-playback scripts. Enhance framework scalability and maintainability. Develop advanced locator strategies using dynamic selectors. Improve test stability and reduce flaky test executions. Troubleshoot automation failures and identify root causes. Optimize automation execution performance and reliability. Drive automation best practices across project teams. Perform API Automation Testing across enterprise applications. Validate REST API responses, business rules, and workflows. Test complex system integrations and data flows. Verify end-to-end functionality across interconnected enterprise systems. Support integration testing activities across multiple platforms. Execute Functional Testing across critical business workflows. Perform Integration Testing and End-to-End Testing. Support SIT and UAT activities. Validate business requirements and expected outcomes. Ensure software quality throughout the release lifecycle. Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines. Support Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing practices. Collaborate with DevOps teams to improve deployment quality. Contribute to automation execution within enterprise DevOps ecosystems.

Have strong experience as a Hybrid Tester. Can confidently work across both Manual and Automation Testing. Have hands-on expertise with Playwright and TypeScript. Have built automation frameworks from scratch. Understand enterprise testing challenges and large-scale system integrations. Possess strong debugging and problem-solving skills. Have experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines. Enjoy mentoring team members and promoting quality engineering best practices. Thrive in fast-paced consulting and enterprise environments.