Test Automation jobs in Perth WA

November 20, 2025

Perth preferred. Consideration given to remote with AWST working hours.

About NGIS

NGIS is a leading provider of geospatial solutions to organisations around the world. We deliver impact through the power of location technology, helping clients use spatial data to make better, faster, and more sustainable decisions.

Our Software Engineering team builds, implements, and supports both customer-specific geospatial solutions and our own TraceMark Software as a Service products. TraceMark provides map-centric insights that drive impact across industries such as agriculture, sustainability, transport, and natural resources.

Whether working on the TraceMark roadmap or a bespoke client solution, our engineers bring technical excellence, collaboration, and a shared passion for geospatial innovation to everything they build.

The Role

Reports to: Test Lead

An NGIS Test Analyst is responsible for the QA function within their product delivery teams for the group or when billable to a client. They will ensure best practice QA is applied to the products and projects they are engaged on and engage with other team members to coach and advise on testing approaches, effort and technology.

Main responsibilities include

• Provide functional testing support to NGIS product and project teams
• Analyse requirements and user stories to design comprehensive manual test cases, ensuring edge cases are covered before automation begins
• Build, execute, and maintain automated test suites using Playwright and AI-assisted tooling such as GitHub Copilot
• Participate in planning and backlog refinement to ensure QA effort is considered and estimated for
• Provide reporting on QA activities and outcomes in delivery teams and client projects

About You

Qualifications

• Certification as a software tester (e.g. ISTQB or equivalent)
• Certification in automation testing will be highly regarded
• Certifications in Agile frameworks or testing techniques will be highly regarded

Experience

• Three or more years as a software tester
• Experience using test automation tools (e.g. Playwright/Selenium) to create, execute and maintain tests
• Experience performing functional, regression and integration testing
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams and sprint-based environments
• Experience with defect and work management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira or similar platforms
• Exposure to APIs and API testing tools (e.g. Postman or similar) is desirable
• Basic SQL and database validation experience is desirable
• Experience using code editors/IDEs (e.g., VS Code) to write, debug, and execute test scripts is desirable
• Experience with geospatial software testing will be highly regarded

Skills

• Familiarity with test automation framework and tools such as Playwright or Selenium
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to confidently advise clients and non-technical stakeholders on QA strategy and timelines.
• Excellent time-management and planning
• In-depth knowledge of work item or backlog tracking tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
• Ability to pick up new domain knowledge
• Strong exploratory testing skills and the ability to design logical test cases before automating them.

The following skills are highly regarded

• Familiarity with containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) for isolating services/dependencies
• Exposure to IaC (e.g. Terraform) for spinning up test infrastructure

Objectives and Goals

This is an important and high-impact role focused on strengthening and scaling NGIS’ automation and quality engineering capability. We are looking for a tester who loves the craft of QA—someone who possesses the critical thinking required for deep manual exploration, backed by the technical skills to scale our automation capability.

Success in this role will include

• Supporting a new and growing automated testing capability within the NGIS group
• Improvement in the quality of the delivered product, including errors, incidents, and outages
• Creating and maintaining effective test cases, test plans and testing documentation
• Collaborating closely with developers, business analysts and stakeholders to ensure requirements are well understood and validated
• Communicating risks, issues and testing outcomes clearly and proactively
• Increasing testing efficiency through appropriate use of automation
• Contributing to continuous improvement of testing processes, standards and quality practices
• Demonstrating accountability in managing testing activities across multiple priorities

Why Join NGIS?

• Work with purpose, building technology that drives environmental and social impact.
• Collaborate with talented engineers and geospatial experts across global teams.
• Flexible working arrangements; option to opt-in to a 9-day fortnight.
• Continuous learning culture with support for certification and professional growth.
• Be part of an innovative company recognised for geospatial and cloud excellence.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you today!