Quality Assurance Engineer

Engagement: Contract

Client: Australian-based company

Working Hours: Aligned to Australian business hours (workday starts at 06:00 AM SAST)

About the Role

Bluegrass is partnering with an Australian-based client to bring on an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer for a fully remote contract position. This role is hands-on and critical to ensuring the quality, stability, and reliability of software products across multiple delivery teams. You’ll own end-to-end manual testing, from early planning and design through to execution and release, playing a key role in maintaining high engineering standards across every deployment. If you’re detail-obsessed, process-driven, and comfortable working closely with developers in an Agile environment, this one’s for you.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop, document, and execute detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts across multiple applications and systems

• Perform comprehensive manual testing, including functional, regression, integration, API, and performance testing

• Collaborate closely with Product, Development, and DevOps teams to ensure requirements are fully testable and clearly understood

• Identify, log, track, and verify defects through to resolution, ensuring proper re-testing and closure

• Provide a strong QA voice during code reviews, highlighting quality and risk considerations

• Support the integration of testing into CI/CD pipelines alongside DevOps and Engineering teams

• Analyze test results and communicate clear, actionable insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Continuously improve QA processes, tools, and methodologies

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives

What You Bring

• 5+ years of professional software testing experience

• Strong manual testing expertise, with the ability to produce clear, well-structured documentation

• Proven experience across functional, regression, integration, and API testing

• Solid understanding of Agile / Scrum methodologies

• Hands-on experience working with CI/CD environments

• Excellent communication skills—you can translate quality issues into language developers and stakeholders actually understand

• Strong problem-solving skills with a sharp eye for detail

• Comfortable working remotely in a fast-paced, distributed team, aligned to Australian working hours