Join a leading organisation delivering innovative insurance products and digital transformation initiatives within a fast-paced enterprise environment. With several key product releases planned over the coming months, the business is investing in strengthening its quality engineering and automation capabilities to support successful delivery outcomes.
Your new role
We are seeking an experienced Test Lead for an initial 6-month contract to lead testing activities for the delivery of new insurance products. This is a hands-on role where you will be responsible for driving automation adoption, establishing testing frameworks and quality guardrails, and influencing stakeholders across technology and business teams.Working in a relatively greenfield automation environment, you will help build and mature the testing capability while remaining hands-on across both automated and manual testing activities. You will lead regression, smoke, functional, and sprint testing efforts, leverage AI-driven testing tools, and contribute to CI/CD pipeline integration to improve quality and delivery efficiency.
What you'll need to succeed
- Proven experience as an End-to-End Test Lead in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on automation testing experience using Playwright (essential).
- Experience establishing testing frameworks, processes, and governance from the ground up.
- Expertise across functional, regression, smoke, and sprint testing.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins.
- Experience working with AI-enabled testing tools and modern quality engineering practices.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to influence outcomes and work effectively across delivery teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors.
- Previous experience within the Insurance or Financial Services sector will be highly preferred.
- Experience supporting the delivery of insurance products, policy administration platforms, or related business systems will be highly regarded.
- Comfortable remaining hands-on and adaptable within a transitioning automation environment.
- Initial 6-month contract with strong potential for extension.
- Opportunity to shape and influence a growing automation testing capability.
- Exposure to modern testing practices, AI-driven testing tools, and large-scale product delivery initiatives.
- Collaborative, delivery-focused environment with strong stakeholder engagement.
- Hybrid working arrangement with 2 days per week in the office, open to Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane locations
- $800 + Super/day
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