Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

IC Markets Global is one of the most renowned Forex CFD provider, offering trading solutions for active day traders and scalpers as well as traders that are new to the forex market. IC Markets Global offers its clients cutting edge trading platforms, low latency connectivity and superior liquidity.

IC Markets Global is revolutionizing online forex trading. Traders are now able to gain access to pricing previously only available to investment banks and high net worth individuals.

Our management team have significant experience in the Forex, CFD and Equity markets in Asia, Europe and North America. It is this experience that has enabled us to select the best possible technology solutions and hand pick some of the best pricing providers available in the market.

Role Overview

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer at IC Markets, you will be a hands-on technical contributor responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks across our web-based trading platforms, internal tooling, and core enterprise systems — including our Salesforce CRM environment. You will implement AI-assisted testing workflows, integrate quality gates into our CI/CD pipelines, and work closely with development, DevOps, and CRM engineering teams to embed a shift-left testing culture across engineering. This is a broad automation remit spanning client- facing trading platforms and internal business systems, rather than a single platform specialism.

Key Responsibilities

Automation Framework Development and Execution

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright in TypeScript/JavaScript, covering UI, API, and integration layers across our trading platforms, internal tools, and enterprise systems such as Salesforce.

• Extend automation coverage to Salesforce Lightning UI (Lightning Web Components, dynamic locators, shadow DOM) and Apex-driven business logic wherever CRM quality gates are required.

• Integrate automated tests within our CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, ensuring quality gates are enforced on every release across all platforms.

• Manage test planning and execution through QMetry for Jira, maintaining full traceability from requirements through to defect resolution.

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to automation best practices, supporting a culture of quality ownership across the team.

Performance, Load and Environment Testing

• Design and execute load and stress testing suites using k6 and JMeter, validating platform behaviour under peak traffic conditions and defining performance benchmarks for release sign-off.

• Collaborate with Cloud and DevOps teams to integrate automated testing within AWS-based staging and PreProd environments.

Testing Strategy and Release Quality

• Develop and execute detailed test plans covering functional, regression, performance, security, and integration testing for trading platforms, client-facing web properties, and internal enterprise systems, including Salesforce and adjacent back-office/CRM integrations.

• Validate integrations between core systems and trading/back-office platforms (e.g. MT4/MT5, cTrader, KYC/AML providers, marketing automation) via REST/SOAP APIs.

• Conduct cross-browser and cross-device testing, including mobile via BrowserStack, ensuring consistent user experiences across devices and browsers.

• Perform API testing using Postman with automated monitor collections and Slack- integrated alerting.

• Ensure test coverage reflects the regulatory and compliance obligations of a broker regulated by ASIC, CySEC, and other authorities.

• Support formal release sign-off processes with structured test cycles, defect traceability, and documented approval gates before production deployments.

AI-Augmented QA and Continuous Improvement

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted testing workflows, including automated test case generation, intelligent ticket triage, and LLM-powered test coverage analysis integrated into our SDLC.

• Build and maintain automation agents using tools such as n8n, Claude, and OpenAI APIs to automate repetitive QA tasks, including regression suite triage, Jira ticket processing, and test report modularisation.

• Continuously improve test efficiency and reliability through tooling improvements, smarter test selection, and automation of manual workflows.

• Mentor other QA engineers and champion automation-first, shift-left testing practices across the wider team.

Qualifications

Technical Expertise

• Extensive hands-on experience with Playwright for end-to-end web automation, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and cross-browser and cross-device compatibility including Browser Stack integration.

• Proficiency in CI/CD tools, particularly GitHub Actions, with experience integrating automated tests into cloud-based deployment pipelines.

• Solid background in API testing using Postman with automated monitor collections, and performance/load testing using k6 and JMeter.

• Experience with QMetry for Jira, including test plan creation, cycle management, execution tracking, and defect traceability reporting.

• Demonstrated experience integrating AI and LLM-based tools such as Claude and OpenAI into QA workflows, including building automation agents and AI-assisted testing pipelines.

• Working knowledge of SQL for data validation across platforms.