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You’ll have the opportunity to improve how quality is embedded into delivery, introduce reusable approaches and explore how AI assisted engineering practices can help us work smarter.\nWhat you’ll own\nDesign, build and maintain scalable automated testing across API, web, mobile and integration layers.\nLead quality engineering for priority initiatives, bringing together risk assessment, test strategy, automation and release readiness.\nEmbed automated testing, quality gates and useful feedback into CI/CD pipelines to help teams release with confidence.\nImprove automation coverage across critical customer journeys, with a focus on reliability, maintainability and stronger diagnostics.\nPartner closely with software engineers to identify high value quality and coverage gaps and build practical solutions to address them.\nExplore AI assisted and agentic approaches that can improve test design, automation, analysis and engineering productivity.\nCreate reusable frameworks, patterns and tooling that enable sustainable quality practices rather than ongoing manual testing dependencies.\nCoach and pair with engineers to strengthen engineering ownership of quality.\nCommunicate quality risks, trade offs and delivery readiness clearly with engineering and product stakeholders.\nWhat you'll bring to the team\nZipsters work on a broad range of initiatives, and our skills and experiences all look a little different. What really matters to us is that you’re a great fit with our four Values, and have a desire to learn and grow.\nSo whether you meet some or all of the desirable attributes below, we’d still love to hear from you: \nStrong experience in Quality Engineering, Software Engineering or a closely related engineering role.\nStrong hands on coding and test automation capability, including experience building and maintaining API, service and web automation.\nExperience embedding automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and using quality gates and feedback to improve release confidence.\nA strong understanding of modern quality engineering practices, including risk based testing, testability and building maintainable automation.\nThe ability to work independently across multiple engineering teams, navigate ambiguity and apply sound judgement as a Senior Engineer.\nStrong communication and stakeholder skills, with the ability to make quality risks and technical trade offs clear.\nExperience with mobile automation, automation frameworks at scale, observability or production diagnostics would be valuable.\nPractical experience using generative AI, coding assistants or agentic workflows within software engineering would be welcomed.\nExperience in fintech or another highly regulated environment would be useful, but is not essential.\nA mindset that embraces AI and new tools to adapt, learn and grow.\nAn aptitude for identifying and managing risks. Whether you are a People Manager or an Individual Contributor, we are all leaders at Zip, therefore effective risk management is important to how we run our business and part of all our roles.\nOur values in your DNA: Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together and Change the Game\nWhat you’ll get in return\nAs we write this next exciting chapter in our story, we will continue to move at pace and embrace change. For you, this might mean opportunities to learn new skills with hands-on experience, broader responsibilities, or the buzz of seeing your work impact customers faster. \nZip is a place where you’ll get out exactly what you put in. When you join the team, we'll do our best to make sure you can be yourself and surround yourself with smart, friendly colleagues and leaders who have your back, so that you can make the big things happen.\nZipsters tell us these are just some of the best things about working here. You’ll also receive:\n25 days paid leave annually, including birthday leave and quarterly wellbeing days\n16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, and 4 weeks for supporting carers\nFamily support policies including miscarriage bereavement leave and domestic violence leave\nMental health and wellness initiatives, including $299 annual wellbeing allowance, free access for you and family members to our EAP service Sonder, discounted private health insurance, and great rates on fitness sessions through ClassPass\n2 days paid volunteering leave per year\nAccess to the Flare Benefits Hub and Novated Leasing for savings across lifestyle, essentials and wellbeing\nFee-free Zip products, and discounts with Zip merchant partners \nTeam social events, epic offices, free breakfast daily, and weekly free lunches \nBe a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers\nWe pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.\nEqually, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know If there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.\nAnd finally…get to know us\nZip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centred products that bring customers and merchants together.\nOperating in two core markets - Australia and the US, Zip offers point-of-sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants.\nWe’re proud to be a values-led business and our values - Customer First, Own it, Stronger Together and Change the Game - guide us in everything we do.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6610,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Health insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Australia","iso":"AU","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Buy Now, Pay Later"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T17:06:32Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":77,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.857,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":21,"expected_fill_days":56,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/zip-co-senior-quality-engineer-9-month-contract","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/zip-co-senior-quality-engineer-9-month-contract.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T21:08:44Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5614,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":685645},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=685645"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fzip-co-senior-quality-engineer-9-month-contract"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fzip-co-senior-quality-engineer-9-month-contract"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fzip-co-senior-quality-engineer-9-month-contract"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/zip-co-senior-quality-engineer-9-month-contract\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fzip-co-senior-quality-engineer-9-month-contract"}]}