Quality Assurance Engineer

17 hours ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Athena Home Loans Full time
Overview

Quality Assurance Engineer - 6 month Fixed Term contract role with opportunity to move to Permanent

We are Athena - a fintech transforming home loan lending in Australia. We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team who will be responsible for planning, executing, and systematising testing across our credit origination platform. This is a hands-on role covering component, end-to-end, and automated testing, working closely with the Credit team and the engineering squad. The successful candidate will bring deep domain expertise in credit and underwriting processes, coupled with strong testing skills, excellent organisation, and a disciplined approach to ensuring deadlines are met.

Role summary

  • Write clear and comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
  • Execute testing across component, system, end-to-end, and UI flows.
  • Design, implement, and manage automated testing frameworks and processes.
  • Validate both complex calculations and technical concepts through rigorous testing.
  • Ensure all testing activities are well organised, tracked, and delivered on time.
  • Collaborate closely with engineers and the Credit team to identify issues early and resolve them quickly.
  • Communicate progress, risks, and issues clearly to stakeholders.
  • Systematise testing processes into repeatable, efficient workflows.
  • Work tightly with all Athena team members to design and build the platform, ensuring a stellar final product.
  • Bring positivity, energy and flexibility to help create and maintain a great start-up culture.
Who we're looking for
  • You pioneer and champion quality assurance, automation and manual testing.
  • You ideally have 5-8 years of work experience performing in fast-paced agile roles in a dynamic customer-first environment.
  • You have deep financial services Credit/Underwriting Domain Expertise: must understand the credit origination process in detail.
  • Strong knowledge of modern test automation tools and frameworks.
  • Excellent communication skills – able to explain issues clearly to both business and technical stakeholders.
  • Comfortable testing both back-end logic/calculations and front-end UI experiences.
  • Highly organised and detail-oriented, with a track record of ensuring testing cycles run on time and follow a test plan.
  • Hybrid working with 2 HQ Anchor Days in an award-winning office space.
  • Wellbeing program to support your physical, mental, social and financial health.
  • Perks program with access to discounts on everyday expenses.
  • Fantastic team culture with monthly events.

At Athena we are committed to a workplace that embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion. Athenians are free to let their own brand of freak fly.

Seniority level
  • Mid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Contract
Job function
  • Quality Assurance and Engineering
  • Industries: Financial Services and Banking

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