AI Summary
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.
Key Highlights
Develop, document, and execute detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts across multiple applications and systems
Collaborate closely with Product, Development, and DevOps teams to ensure requirements are fully testable and clearly understood
Analyze test results and communicate clear, actionable insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Fully remote contract position
Australian business hours
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
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
- 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