Quality Engineering Lead – Automation & AI Testing

Job Description

Quality Engineering Lead – Automation & AI Testing About CloudMarc CloudMarc is a leading technology consultancy delivering Digital, Cloud, Data, and Quality Engineering solutions across Australia and internationally. We partner with some of Australia's leading organisations to deliver large-scale enterprise transformation programs, and we're looking for an experienced Quality Engineering Lead to join our growing offshore delivery team. The Opportunity We're seeking a hands-on Quality Engineering Lead to drive automation, AI-assisted testing, and modern quality engineering practices across a major enterprise IT portfolio. This is a technical leadership role where you'll design and build enterprise automation frameworks, establish quality engineering standards, mentor engineers, and champion an automation-first, AI-first approach across multiple delivery teams. Working closely with the QA & Automation Manager, developers, architects, business analysts, and onshore stakeholders, you'll play a key role in improving software quality while enabling faster and more efficient delivery. Location: Philippines (Remote) Working Hours: Australian Business Hours Key Responsibilities Quality Engineering Leadership Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide Quality Engineering frameworks and automation standards. Champion automation-first and AI-assisted testing practices across delivery teams. Mentor, coach, and uplift the capability of Quality Engineers and Test Analysts. Conduct automation code reviews and establish engineering best practices. Evaluate emerging testing technologies and AI solutions, recommending adoption where appropriate. Automation & AI Engineering Design, build, and maintain reusable automation frameworks, libraries, and accelerators. Implement AI-assisted testing capabilities, including intelligent test generation, self-healing automation, AI-assisted defect analysis, and smart test selection. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing. Develop scalable approaches for test data management and environment configuration. Test Delivery Design and execute functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, exploratory, and performance testing. Perform manual testing where exploratory testing or business validation is required. Analyse business requirements and user stories to ensure comprehensive test coverage. Manage defects through to resolution while working closely with development teams. Continuously identify opportunities to automate manual testing activities. Collaboration & Delivery Define and report quality metrics, automation coverage, and release readiness. Support Agile and DevOps delivery teams throughout the software development lifecycle. Collaborate with developers, architects, business analysts, product owners, and stakeholders across Australia and the Philippines. Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production Verification activities. Contribute to continuous improvement across Quality Engineering practices. About You You'll ideally bring: Extensive experience leading Quality Engineering or Test Automation teams. Strong hands-on experience designing enterprise automation frameworks from the ground up. Expertise in UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end automation testing. Experience with modern automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, RestAssured , or similar. Strong programming or scripting skills in Java, C\ , JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python . Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bamboo, or similar. Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, Shift-Left Testing, and Quality Engineering best practices. Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across teams. Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills. Nice to Have Experience with AI-powered testing tools and GenAI technologies. Exposure to OpenAI, LangChain, AI Agents, or intelligent automation frameworks. Experience working with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud platforms. Previous experience supporting Australian enterprise clients. ISTQB or relevant Quality Engineering certifications. Why Join CloudMarc? At CloudMarc, you'll work with leading Australian organisations on enterprise transformation programs that leverage modern automation, AI, and cloud technologies. You'll be part of a collaborative team that values innovation, technical excellence, and continuous learning while providing opportunities to make a real impact. If you're passionate about leading Quality Engineering teams and driving the future of automation and AI-enabled testing, we'd love to hear from you.