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Nearmap is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to lead quality engineering efforts while maintaining hands-on technical expertise. Reporting to the QA Manager, you will combine people and process leadership with deep automation expertise across API, web, and desktop applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to QA engineers, including code reviews and best-practice mentoring
- Set automation standards, frameworks, and best practices across the QA function
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to plan and prioritize QA work
- Develop test strategy for new features and major releases, including risk assessment and coverage planning
- Report on quality metrics, automation coverage, and release readiness to stakeholders
- Serve as primary escalation point for complex quality and testing issues
- Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for API, web UI, and Windows desktop applications
- Develop and extend API test automation frameworks using Java and REST Assured
- Write automation scripts and tooling in Python for test execution, data setup, and reporting
- Evaluate and integrate AI automation tools to improve test generation, maintenance, and self-healing capabilities
- Use Claude AI to accelerate automation development, including generating test cases, refactoring code, analyzing failures, and creating documentation
- Build and maintain CI/CD test pipelines within Azure DevOps
- Perform manual and exploratory testing where automation coverage is developing
- Triage test failures, distinguish flaky tests from genuine defects, and drive root-cause analysis
About Nearmap:
Nearmap provides property intelligence through aerial imagery, AI-driven analytics, and geospatial tools for professionals who plan, build, insure, and govern the built environment. The company values fast execution, smart work, inclusive culture, and remote-friendly operations.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or relevant work experience
- 8+ years of QA engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead or senior QA role
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and REST Assured for API test automation
- Experience using Claude AI or similar LLM tools to support automation development and testing workflows
- Working proficiency in Python for scripting and tooling
- Practical experience with AI-assisted or AI-driven automation tools in testing contexts
- Solid experience with API testing and automation (functional, contract, performance considerations)
- Experience testing Windows desktop applications (UI automation frameworks such as WinAppDriver, Appium, or similar)
- Experience with Web UI test automation (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (Test Plans, Pipelines, Boards, Repos)
- Strong understanding of test strategy, risk-based testing, and quality metrics
- Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring or leading other QA engineers
