Senior Quality Engineer 

  • Full-time
  • Business Function: Information Technology
  • Parent Business Function: Digital, IT & Analytics
  • Time Type: Full time
  • Worker Sub-Type: Permanent
  • Entity: Qantas Airways Limited

Company Description

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

Job Description

  • At Qantas, our teams come together to create new and unique experiences for our customers. 
  • A fantastic opportunity to be part of a team that focuses on cutting-edge technology and quality engineering principles. 
  • Full-time and permanent position based at our new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide. 

Join Qantas in our brand-new Product Innovation Centre located in Adelaide to help us ensure consumer needs are met by embedding robust testing strategies and automation practices that uphold software reliability, performance, and security. Deliver seamless, high-quality digital experiences that build customer trust and satisfaction. 

As a Senior Quality Engineer – Conversational AI, you’ll be responsible for testing and validating chatbot solutions while helping shape and evolve our CAI quality engineering capability. You’ll work closely with product, engineering and AI teams to design automated chatbot tests, validate conversation flows, and troubleshoot issues as they arise. With the freedom to identify and implement the best solutions, you’ll continuously improve our tools, frameworks and overall approach to CAI testing.

You’ll have:

  • Strong experience in Quality Engineering or QA, with hands‑on experience testing Conversational AI or chatbot platforms
  • Proven experience using Cyara Botium for chatbot test automation
  • Expertise in testing conversation flows, intents, entities and dialogue management across multiple scenarios
  • Experience validating chatbot integrations with backend systems and APIs
  • Ability to design and execute end‑to‑end test strategies for AI‑driven customer experiences
  • Experience embedding chatbot testing into CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong understanding of the challenges of testing AI systems, including ambiguity, edge cases and training data validation
  • Experience testing non‑functional requirements such as performance, security and accessibility in conversational interfaces
  • Confidence collaborating with cross‑functional teams to embed quality early in the delivery lifecycle
  • Strong analytical skills to interpret chatbot behaviour and translate insights into quality improvements
  • Excellent communication, documentation and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Experience working with Mobile apps as the entry point to the chat bot.
  • A continuous improvement mindset and passion for emerging AI technologies
  • Confidence contributing to go/no‑go decisions for chatbot and CAI releases

Why Qantas?

At Qantas, your career can take you further than you imagined. You’ll join a team where creativity and passion drives success. Together we dream big and deliver even bigger. 

You’ll find diverse opportunities to grow, personally and professionally. From day one, you’ll be supported with hands-on training, coaching, and formal learning programs designed to help you excel. Your development is our priority because we know that when you thrive, so do our customers. 

And while this role is your starting point at Qantas, it’s just the beginning. We have a proud history of helping our people explore new paths and reach new heights - the destinations are endless. 

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel. 

  • We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays. 
  • We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees.  
  • We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.  
  • We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan. 

Why South Australia?

Discover a place where life is balanced and rewarding, and where innovation thrives. In South Australia we value collaboration, genuine connections, and supporting each other to succeed. That spirit of teamwork is at the heart of our new Product Innovation Centre, a hub dedicated to creating world-class digital experiences for our customers. 

Adelaide offers the best of both worlds. A vibrant city with cutting-edge tech opportunities and world-class food, wine, and arts, surrounded by stunning beaches, national parks, and green spaces. Getting around is easy, and the cost of living means you can enjoy more of what matters. From celebrated wine regions and fresh produce to our innovative industries, South Australians take pride in doing things well, with care and integrity. That same commitment drives our approach to digital innovation: building solutions that matter, with creativity and purpose. 

If you’re looking for a place where your career can grow, your ideas can shape the future, and your life can flourish, South Australia is waiting for you.  

Applications close on the 20th of April

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation. 

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