Automation & QA Engineer

Job Description:

About Us

Sportsbet is a leading Australian e-commerce business in the online wagering sector, bringing excitement to over 2 million Aussies. We do this by living our values to create an innovative entertainment brand, trailblazing products and best-in-class platforms that deliver great experiences to our customers.

We have over 1,300 team members at Sportsbet but as part of the Flutter Group, we’re a true global player.

Committed To Responsible Gambling

Our commitment to responsible gambling is genuine and demonstrated through the wide range of responsible gambling initiatives and tools.

We’re proud to be the leaders in responsible gambling in our industry, not just locally, but globally.

About the role

This Automation & QA Engineer role delivers comprehensive testing services to the business including but not limited to raising the "culture of quality" across the company. We take pride that the products we deliver to our customers (both internal and external) are of the highest standard.

Automation & QA Engineers are embedded into our Delivery Teams, working closely with developers, BAs and stakeholders to achieve the highest quality results. At Sportsbet, we're dynamic and embrace change. To adapt, you always need to find new ways of speeding up testing without compromising quality. This involves not only automation, but dealing with CI/CD jobs, stabilising test environments, and other forms of testing activities such as manual testing or non-functional testing too.

Key responsibilities include:

• Uplifting & maintaining our automation framework
• Scope testing requirements and understand complex system interactions, creating a plan to ensure end-to-end quality
• Testing mindset with automation first focus
• On point for release activities
• Be the custodian of quality

Although not essential, experience with the following will be ideal:

• Building test automation frameworks from ground up
• Developing and deploying API test automation suites SuperTest, Jest, Mocha, Chai, Cucumber and/or other API test automation frameworks
• Developing and deploying backend and frontend automation test suites using automation tools like WebDriver / Appium / Detox, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium
• Programming knowledge in JavaScript / Typescript or Java / Kotlin
• Experience with setting up and working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub action
• Knowledge working with a Stash, Bitbucket , GitHub.
• Docker, Puppet or other application configuration and distribution platform knowledge
• Understanding of AWS or cloud concepts

The Perks

We work hard and play hard, so along with a competitive salary and generous performance-based bonus, here’s some of our other perks:

• 25 days annual leave
• Genuine flexible and remote working policy with a $1050 work from home office allowance
• Tailored career development programs
• Discounted gym memberships, free breakfast, loads of event and conference tickets
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and a Circle In membership
• Industry leading Parental Leave support program with 26 weeks paid leave for Primary Carers and no wait time. We also have a progressive return to work benefit for your first 6 months back: come back for 3 days, get paid for 4; come back for 4 days, get paid for 5.

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we review candidates within 2 weeks of advertising.

Our Focus on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We’re an inclusive employer who welcomes you for who you are, as you are – so, if you require adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know in your application or contact us if you’d like to discuss this in more detail.

If you think you’d be a great fit but don’t necessarily meet everything in the job description, please still get in touch.

Read more about our contribution to Flutter’s global Positive Impact Plan.

Need To Work Flexibly?

We know flex means different things to different people, let us know how we can support you to be your best.

Ready to bring excitement to life? Apply now