Senior Quality Engineer

Job Summary

Who We Are

Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and technology company spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20+ countries. In India, we're building a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. We've grown quickly since our inception in 2019, now with offices in Bangalore and Pune.

Focus of the Role

As a Senior Quality Engineer - Test Automation Specialist, you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions, to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the end-to-end software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset, collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.

What You'll Do

• Product & Technology - Software Engineering & IT develops and maintains Telstra's software and IT systems, working on some really cutting-edge technologies.
• Lead the shift-left movement—bake quality into development from day one. You'll take the lead in embedding quality from the very first line of code
• Teach & inspire teams to write testable, high-quality code and implement automation smartly (TDD, BDD, unit testing space —you name it).
• Be the quality evangelist in Telstra—mentor teams, drive best practices, and set the standard for test automation. Coach and mentor developers, teaching them how to test better and earlier.
• Architect rock-solid test automation frameworks that scale across microservices, APIs, and cloud-based platforms.
• Collaborate, innovate, and challenge the norm—quality is a team sport here, and you'll help level up the entire engineering squad in Telstra.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines with intelligent automation that reduces manual intervention. Be the go-to expert on quality—from test strategies to DevSecOps pipelines, you'll set the gold standard.
• Dive deep into performance, security, and reliability testing to ensure our systems can handle anything.
• Improve test efficiency by eliminating flaky tests and ensuring reliable automation across platforms.
• Stay on top of emerging tech, introducing innovative testing approaches to make quality engineering smarter.

About You

• A problem-solver who thrives in complex, large-scale projects and challenges the status quo, and shaking things up for the better. 
•  A Continuous learner, eager to grow and make an impact
• 8 to 14 years of strong working experience in Software Automation Testing.
• A hands-on expert in test automation (Java, Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, RestAssured, API/Microservice testing), you make quality seamless through code.
• Strong knowledge of TDD, BDD, and CI/CD pipelines—because testing is part of development, not an afterthought.
• You've designed and built scalable automation frameworks that keep up with fast-moving, distributed systems. 
• Passion for mentoring and coaching teams— You'll help developers level up their test-first mindset and write rock-solid quality-oriented code.
• Strong database testing skills, performance testing expertise, and understanding of infrastructure testing.
• Ability to collaborate with leadership, developers, and product teams to drive quality as a culture.
• Deep experience in DevOps, cloud platforms (Azure preferably), and microservices contract testing - you know how modern apps should be tested.

What'll Give You Bonus Points

• You've helped build a quality-first culture in previous roles.
• Experience in implementing any AI-driven test automation to enhance productivity.
• You've worked in telecom (OSS/BSS).
• You have a solid grasp of security testing and validating AI results—and you're not afraid to dive in and get hands-on when needed.
• You've dabbled in AI-driven test automation (or are super keen to learn it).
• Experience in performance and load testing of applications and api's at super crazy volumes.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.

What We Offer

• Performance-related pay
• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
• Up to 26 weeks maternity leave provided to the birth mother with benefits for all child births
• Up to 16 weeks paid paternity leave provided to the non-birthing partners
• Employees are entitled to 21 paid annual leaves per calendar year
• Eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of paid sick / casual leave per calendar year
• Relocation support options across India, from junior to senior positions within the company
• Receive insurance benefits such as medical, accidental and life insurances

If you are looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive. 

As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.