Job Description

Location: Fully Remote


Engagement: Contract


Client: Australian-based company


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

About the Role

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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

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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

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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