We are looking for Test Automation Engineer with Playwright and Typescript experience for Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand location.

Agile & Scrum Experience

• Ability to work within an Agile team and coach others on Scrum principles.
• Experience in writing and breaking down outcomes into deliverables (e.g., user stories, acceptance criteria).
• Comfortable with backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Strong Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking

• Ability to analyse complex technical and process challenges and find practical, scalable solutions.
• Strong critical thinking skills to identify inefficiencies and improve workflows.
• Comfort in dealing with ambiguity and troubleshooting technical issues across different tools.
• Ability to debug failures in automation pipelines, test cases, or configuration changes.

Test Automation & Quality Engineering

• Strong experience with Playwright and Typescript for automation testing.
• Experience setting up test automation frameworks and guiding others on writing great automated test cases.
• Knowledge of Zephyr (or other test management tools) to ensure proper test case organisation and execution.
• Experience in breaking down user stories and business requirements into well-defined test cases.
• Ability to ensure comprehensive test coverage, including edge cases, negative scenarios, and exploratory testing.
• Understands and applies the testing pyramid to decompose test cases and use appropriate testing methods (unit, integration, UI, end-to-end) for effectiveness and maintainability.

DevOps & CI/CD

• CloudBees Jenkins experience for setting up test execution pipelines.
• Ability to build CI/CD workflows for automated deployments and test execution.
• Strong Git skills: branching strategies, pull requests, and reviewing code/test automation contributions.

Application Configuration & Infrastructure as Code

• Understanding of configuration management for the application (how to version, test, and deploy changes).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to reduce manual config changes.
• Ability to integrate application configurations into pipelines.

Observability & Monitoring

• Hands-on experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, and PagerDuty for monitoring application health, test execution, and performance.
• Ability to set up dashboards, alerts, and incident workflows in Splunk, Dynatrace, and PagerDuty.
• Understanding of log aggregation, distributed tracing, and metrics collection for debugging failures.
• Experience with custom observability solutions, including:
• Event-driven observability.
• Streaming data processing.
• Pushing custom application and test execution metrics to Dynatrace Metrics.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume.

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.