Senior Quality Engineer - Hawthorn East

We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and have grown to become a top 30-listed company on the ASX with a portfolio of iconic homegrown brands. At the heart of our continued success is over 115,000 team members working across the country, all contributing to bringing our customers smiles. You’ll not only get to see your work make a difference, you’ll be part of a team working together to help Australians eat and live better every day.

About the team

Our Technology team is the backbone of the business, building and maintaining the information technology infrastructure that support Coles Group. As a part of the Technology team, you get the opportunity to work through complex, challenging, meaningful problems using large data sets and new technologies to expand your skills and experience.

Our team thrives on collaboration, strategic thinking, and delivering real outcomes that shape the future of retail.

About the role

In this role, you’ll play a key part in shaping and strengthening Quality Engineering within your business unit—driving greater agility, advancing test automation, and unlocking meaningful efficiencies across delivery.

You’ll support quality outcomes across multiple concurrent initiatives, bringing consistency through a shared testing approach, smarter use of capability, and clear, actionable metrics—ultimately helping teams deliver faster and with greater confidence.

You’ll also contribute to the ongoing evolution of Quality Engineering capability, frameworks, and patterns that underpin our business applications. This includes areas such as test automation, continuous testing, test data creation, and early-stage security testing.

Working closely with project teams, programs, and agile squads, you’ll help embed and scale these capabilities—ensuring they’re adopted effectively and deliver real value where it matters most.

Automation experience is a must have for this role.

About you and your skills

•    At least 5 years’ experience in the automation, development and testing fields, including on digital products in an agile environment, with experience contributing to large programs of work.
•    Demonstrated experience in evolving and maintaining technical solutions for complex and distributed environments.
•    Comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the technology’s broader operational environment (i.e., processes, procedures, associated toolsets, operating systems, etc.).
•    Strong Manual and Automated testing experience, including demonstrated success with evolving and maintaining Automated Testing solutions
•    Demonstrated experience with a variety of licenced and open-source automation tools, frameworks, scripting languages (e.g. UFT, RestAssured, Selenium, SpecFlow, Appium, Cucumber, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, Java etc)
•    Experience with the agile development process and developing code in alignment with coding standards and business processes.
•    Demonstrated experience delivering automated testing, both in terms of process and tools (e.g., Microfocus ALM, Jira, Microsoft Test Manager, etc).
•    Demonstrated experience with evolving and maintaining Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) test automation frameworks compatible with diverse technology stacks.
•    Demonstrated experience with testing aspects of DevOps including IaC for continuous testing purposes using tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins or AzureDevOps.
•    Understanding of GenAI, preferably OpenAI GPT and LangChain4J and their application to testing uses cases.
•    Understanding of engineering principles, products, and services in a hybrid cloud environment, with a technical background.
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to influence and persuade outcomes / direction
•    Excellent analytical and problem resolution skills
•    Minimum Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer systems or Software engineering related qualification
•    Experience in quality engineering solution design for continuous testing and test automation.
•    Market knowledge and experience in the delivery of retail and technology solutions
•    Risk management skills
•    Stakeholder management skills

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
• Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
• Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
• Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
• Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
• Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
• Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

About the recruitment process

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email inclusionrecruitment@coles.com.au

Job ID: 174643

Employment Type: Full time

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