Middle Quality Automation Engineer

Mid Quality Assurance Engineer

About

We are tech transformation specialists, uniting human expertise with AI to create scalable tech solutions. With over 8,000 CI&Ters around the world, we’ve built partnerships with more than 1,000 clients during our 30 years of history. Artificial Intelligence is our reality. At CI&T, we don’t just deliver digital experiences; we engineer quality into every product we ship. As part of our dynamic team, you’ll have the opportunity to safeguard the reliability, performance, and usability of end-to-end digital solutions for a diverse clientele, including some of Australia’s most well-known brands. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a major enterprise client’s strategic initiative. You’ll embed automated testing, AI-assisted workflows, and modern test tooling into our delivery lifecycle, partnering across mobile, web, and platform teams to ensure quality is built in — not bolted on.

Responsibilities

• Apply established quality assurance strategies and testing frameworks within assigned project scope.
• Make day-to-day decisions on testing approaches, tool usage, and execution priorities, escalating broader decisions to senior colleagues.
• Follow and help reinforce testing standards, best practices, and quality metrics defined for the team.
• Execute a range of testing activities including functional, regression, integration, and basic performance and security checks.
• Contribute ideas to testing process improvements and explore new testing tools or techniques under senior guidance.
• Participate in root cause analysis for quality issues and help implement preventive measures.
• Stay current with relevant testing tools, frameworks, and industry practices to grow technical depth.
• Support proof-of-concept testing efforts and flag potential quality risks for new features.
• Provide guidance and knowledge sharing to junior colleagues on day-to-day testing tasks.
• Assist senior engineers in onboarding new team members and sharing project context.
• Participate in technical interviews when invited, focusing on areas within your expertise.
• Offer constructive feedback to peers during code, test case, and automation reviews.
• Help prepare or deliver knowledge-sharing sessions on practical testing techniques.
• Model good testing habits, including disciplined test design, automation, and clear defect reporting.
• Collaborate openly with developers, designers, and other QAs to share context and resolve quality issues.
• Design and maintain automated test cases within existing automation frameworks; contribute enhancements as needed.
• Execute integration, regression, and cross-browser or cross-device testing as required by the project.
• Own assigned testing tasks end-to-end, ensuring adequate coverage within agreed timelines and quality expectations.
• Provide testing estimates for features within your scope and flag risks that may affect delivery.
• Coordinate testing activities with developers and other QAs to avoid duplication and uncovered areas.
• Support release activities by performing quality validation, smoke tests, and post-release checks.
• Balance thorough testing with delivery timelines and communicate trade-offs transparently.
• Participate in client meetings related to your assigned work, focusing on understanding requirements and reporting progress.
• Contribute to quality documentation, test plans, and status reports for project stakeholders.
• Support senior colleagues during pre-sales or client discussions by sharing relevant testing context when asked.
• Help translate functional requirements into clear, testable specifications and test cases.
• Provide input on testing effort and feasibility for features within your area.
• Maintain professional, respectful communication with clients and teammates.
• Take ownership of your assigned work and seek opportunities to grow into broader responsibilities.
• Adapt to changes in project scope, tooling, or environment, asking for support when needed.
• Apply analytical thinking and a structured approach to identifying, reproducing, and reporting defects.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, both in writing and verbally.
• Continuously upskill in emerging testing tools, frameworks, and methodologies relevant to the role.
• Operate with integrity, transparency, and accountability in all quality reporting.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright (web) and Maestro (mobile).
• Working command of AI-driven workflows that accelerate test design, generation, and maintenance.
• Ability to define test strategy, build automation frameworks, and validate quality across modern web applications, mobile apps, and broader digital ecosystems.
• Experience applying established quality assurance strategies and testing frameworks.
• Experience making day-to-day decisions on testing approaches, tool usage, and execution priorities.
• Experience reinforcing testing standards, best practices, and quality metrics.
• Experience executing functional, regression, integration, and basic performance and security checks.
• Experience contributing ideas to testing process improvements and exploring new testing tools or techniques.
• Experience participating in root cause analysis for quality issues.
• Experience staying current with relevant testing tools, frameworks, and industry practices.
• Experience supporting proof-of-concept testing efforts.
• Experience providing guidance and knowledge sharing to junior colleagues.
• Experience assisting senior engineers in onboarding new team members.
• Experience participating in technical interviews.
• Experience offering constructive feedback to peers.
• Experience helping prepare or deliver knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Experience modeling good testing habits.
• Experience collaborating openly with developers, designers, and other QAs.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated test cases within existing automation frameworks.
• Experience executing integration, regression, and cross-browser or cross-device testing.
• Experience owning assigned testing tasks end-to-end.
• Experience providing testing estimates for features.
• Experience coordinating testing activities with developers and other QAs.
• Experience supporting release activities.
• Experience balancing thorough testing with delivery timelines.
• Experience participating in client meetings.
• Experience contributing to quality documentation, test plans, and status reports.
• Experience translating functional requirements into clear, testable specifications and test cases.
• Experience providing input on testing effort and feasibility.
• Experience maintaining professional, respectful communication.
• Experience taking ownership of work and seeking opportunities for growth.
• Experience adapting to changes in project scope, tooling, or environment.
• Experience applying analytical thinking and a structured approach to identifying, reproducing, and reporting defects.
• Experience communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience continuously upskilling in emerging testing tools, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Experience operating with integrity, transparency, and accountability.