Senior QA (Manual + Automation API Testing)

About Trideca

Trideca is a specialist technology consultancy delivering outcomes across enterprise integration, digital transformation, data, and cloud. We partner with Australia's leading organisations to build, integrate, and scale mission-critical platforms. Our teams combine deep technical expertise with pragmatic delivery - we embed alongside clients, roll our sleeves up, and get things shipped. We are growing quickly, and we are selective about the people we bring on: we hire for craft, care and character.

ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT

Our client is an ASX-listed financial services group launching a new product into market. The squad is delivering a greenfield platform underpinned by an API-first integration pattern, replacing an earlier data-transformation-led approach. The work is hands-on, fast-moving, and under significant time-to-market pressure — testing maturity is being built up alongside delivery, and the QAs we appoint will help shape the testing framework.

ROLE OVERVIEW

A senior, hands-on technical Test Analyst focused squarely on API and integration testing. You will be one of two QAs in the squad and the technical depth on the test side — pairing closely with engineers to validate integrations, data transformations, and API contracts as the platform is built. The role is manual API testing first, with automation introduced in a dedicated sprint after launch.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Across the squad

• Design, write, and execute test cases against API endpoints and end-to-end business flows.
• Validate data transposition and transformation logic as data flows across multiple integrated platforms.
• Raise, triage, and track defects with engineers; drive issues through to resolution at squad pace.
• Contribute to building the test framework and ways of working — the client's BAU testing capability is still being established.
• Partner closely with the BA, Tech Lead, and integration engineers in a small, high-cadence squad.
• Support a later automation sprint by structuring manual test assets so they translate cleanly into automated suites.

Specific to this role

• Act as the technical test depth in the squad, pairing with engineers on integration design and data contracts.
• Build and curate the API test asset library (collections, fixtures, payloads) so it transitions cleanly into automation.
• Validate cross-system data integrity and transformation accuracy, with particular focus on API-first flows replacing prior data-transformation tooling.
• Identify automation candidates and structure manual tests so they can be lifted into a later automation sprint with minimal rework.

WHAT YOU BRING

Must-have

• Strong hands-on experience as a technical test analyst on integration-heavy programs.
• Demonstrable depth in API testing — request construction, response validation, status/error handling, schema and contract validation.
• Proven ability to test data transposition and transformation across multiple systems.
• Comfort working in a small, senior squad with limited existing test framework — sets the bar rather than waits for one.
• Excellent stakeholder communication, with the credibility to push back on engineers and product when defects are deferred.
• Australian working rights and the ability to work hybrid from a Melbourne CBD client site.
• Deep, hands-on experience testing REST APIs — including auth flows, contracts, error semantics, and edge cases.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns (synchronous vs asynchronous, eventing, retries, idempotency).
• Comfort reading payloads, logs, and traces to diagnose integration issues independently.

Nice-to-have

• Exposure to financial services, wealth, superannuation, or insurance domains.
• Familiarity with API automation tooling (Postman/Newman, RestAssured, Karate, Playwright API, or equivalent).
• Experience standing up testing frameworks from scratch in low-maturity environments.
• CI/CD pipeline integration of test suites (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).

Why Choose Trideca?

Empowering Women in Technology - We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that supports and advances women in tech. We actively champion gender diversity and create pathways for women to lead and thrive.

Growth Through Learning - Your development is our priority. We invest in continuous learning, certifications, and career progression to help you grow with us.

Work Your Way - We believe flexibility drives performance. Our hybrid working model empowers our team to balance life, family, and career on their own terms.

Trideca Values

• Clients Come First - We put our clients at the heart of everything we do.
• We Celebrate Our Differences - Diverse perspectives make us stronger.
• Achieve Greatness Together - Collaboration is the foundation of our success.
• Own Your Space - Take ownership, act with purpose, deliver results.
• Encourage Open Debate - Challenge ideas, share opinions, drive better outcomes.
• Have Fun, Go Nuts - We work hard, but we enjoy the ride along the way.

Trideca is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.