QA Engineer
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What does the QA Engineer role at National Digital involve?
It is a part-time (15–25 hours per week), remote QA role open Australia-wide, paying $85,000–$95,000 full-time equivalent pro rata. You learn each client product in depth, decide what to test, automate the important checks in Playwright and CI, and trace failures to their cause.
QA Engineer – Product Quality & Test Automation
Part TimeRemote (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia)15–25 hrs/week
National Digital is looking for a part-time QA Engineer (15–25 hours per week, remote anywhere in Australia) to own quality across a portfolio of production platforms. You will learn each client's product the way its users and staff use it, including its business rules, its edge cases and the workflows the business depends on. You will use that knowledge to decide what to test. You will automate the checks that matter in Playwright and CI, and you will investigate failures down to the API, the database and the logs. The salary range is $85,000–$95,000 full-time equivalent, pro rata, plus superannuation.
Salary
$85,000 – $95,000 per year
Key Responsibilities
- Learn each client platform in depth, including its users, its business rules and its most important workflows
- Test new features against their acceptance criteria and against the product as its users experience it
- Write and maintain Playwright end-to-end suites for the critical paths of each platform, such as booking, search and checkout
- Own the CI quality gates for accessibility, performance and regression
- Investigate defects to their cause, and pair with engineers on testability
- Review AI-assisted code changes and automated content pipelines before release
- Raise the product problems you find while testing, including confusing flows and gaps in requirements
Requirements
- 4+ years in software quality assurance, including writing and maintaining automated tests in the codebase
- Production Playwright experience, or Cypress experience and the willingness to switch
- Technical investigation skills, including browser developer tools, direct API calls, SQL queries against a test database and reading application logs
- Enough code literacy to read a pull request, understand what changed and judge what it puts at risk
- API testing alongside UI automation, including contract checks against an OpenAPI specification
- Accessibility testing to WCAG 2.2 with axe and screen-reader checks
- Risk-based test planning that starts from how the product makes money and where its users get stuck
- Clear written bug reports that let a developer reproduce the fault on the first attempt
- Tertiary qualification in IT/Computer Science, ISTQB certification, or equivalent demonstrated experience
- Based in Australia with full, unrestricted working rights (Australian citizen or permanent resident)
- Willingness to complete a National Police Check and provide professional references prior to commencement
Bonus Skills / Nice to Have
- Domain experience with accommodation, booking, e-commerce or SaaS products
- Performance testing experience (k6 or Lighthouse CI)
- Security testing fundamentals (OWASP)
- Experience testing LLM-powered features, including non-deterministic output and evaluation sets
- Experience as a product owner or business analyst
Contract Details
Part-time / Remote (pro rata)15–25 hrs/week
Benefits
Flexible part-time hours (15–25 per week), remote anywhere in Australia$85,000–$95,000 full-time equivalent, pro rata, plus superannuationThe authority to hold the quality bar, because the gates you own block releasesA small senior team with modern toolingPro-rata professional development budget
How to Apply: Send a short summary of your experience. Tell us about one bug you found because you understood the product better than its specification did, and how you traced it to its cause.
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Why this role exists
AI-assisted development has made code faster to write. Each change still needs someone who knows the product well enough to judge whether it is right. At National Digital, automated accessibility, performance and regression checks block releases, and this role owns those checks across every platform we run. You will join a small senior team. You can meet the people behind the platforms or read how we hire and what we offer before you apply.