Engineer - Test

• 12 month contract 
• Leverage agentic coding tools and MCP-connected workflows 
• Melbourne based

Join a team that's All Kinds of Useful

At Origin, being useful is more than a tagline - it’s how we approach work every day. As a collective, we’re a team that thrives on finding better ways, working together, and owning our impact. From powering homes to delivering award-winning internet and helping to lead Australia’s energy transition. If you’re driven by purpose and excited to be part of something bigger, we’d love to have you on the journey.

About the Role

At Origin, we're transforming the way we serve our customers and creating better energy experiences for people, communities and the planet. As a Support & Test Engineer, you'll play a key role in ensuring the quality, stability and performance of platforms that support our customers and teams. Working closely with cross-functional development teams, you will be responsible for end-to-end testing across new and existing features, building and maintaining automation frameworks, and supporting the continuous improvement of our testing practices. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys problem solving, collaboration and working in a fast-paced agile environment. You'll also work at the frontier of AI-assisted engineering — leveraging agentic coding tools and MCP-connected workflows to accelerate delivery and raise the quality bar.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform end-to-end testing across new and existing platform features
• Develop and maintain automated test cases to maximise test coverage
• Build and maintain Playwright-based automation frameworks, including integration with Playwright MCP for AI-driven browser automation and agent-assisted test generation
• Leverage agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to accelerate test authoring, code review and framework improvementsIntegrate MCP servers (Slack, Jira, Confluence, Postman and others) into testing and triage workflows to streamline defect reporting and test visibility
• Design and execute LLM output testing — validating AI-generated responses for accuracy, consistency, safety and regression across model updates
• Support continuous improvement of automation processes and testing practicesCollaborate with Developers, Product Owners and Business Analysts across the full delivery lifecycle
• Configure, manage and maintain test environments and test dataIdentify, investigate and support resolution of defects and customer issues
• Assist with API and performance testing across platforms
• Support cloud-based environments hosted in AWSTroubleshoot user access issues in partnership with Cloud Engineering teams
• Contribute ideas to improve quality, efficiency and team ways of working

About You

You are a collaborative and adaptable Test Engineer with a passion for quality engineering and continuous improvement. You enjoy working across teams, solving problems and finding smarter ways to improve processes and customer outcomes — including harnessing the latest AI-assisted tooling to do it faster and smarter.

You will bring:

• Experience writing UI automation tests using Playwright, including working with Playwright MCP for agentic and AI-assisted browser automation
• Familiarity with agentic coding assistants such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot to accelerate test development and code quality
• Experience or strong interest in LLM output testing — evaluating AI-generated content for correctness, determinism, safety guardrails and regression behaviour
• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript skills
• Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitHub
• API testing experience using Postman or similar tools, including MCP-connected Postman workflows
• Knowledge of Docker and monitoring tools such as Grafana
• Experience working in agile delivery environments, ideally gained in the energy sector or large transformation programs
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail, aproactive mindset with the ability to work autonomously and the ability to adapt and thrive in changing or ambiguous environments

Desirable experience includes:

• Hands-on experience with MCP integrations across tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack or GitHub for workflow automation and test orchestration
• Exposure to AWS services including Lambda, ECS or EC2Performance testing experience using JMeter or Gatling
• Experience with BrowserStack, Applitools or centralised logging tools
• Prior exposure to prompt engineering or evaluation frameworks for LLM-based features.

Origin - Where good change happens

At Origin, we’re powered by people who believe in creating change.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, gender equitable workforce, where everyone is welcome, and all applications are evaluated on merit and potential. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people living with disabilities, culturally diverse people, any stage in life, people with intersex variations and people within LGBTQ+ communities, including trans and gender diverse. 
 

Enjoy a challenging career in an exciting industry where you can grow and explore your potential. If you think you have transferable skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we’d love to hear from you. 

Here's a little about us: https://www.originenergy.com.au/about/careers/

Background checks may be required to determine your suitability for this position as part of the recruitment process and during your employment. These checks may include police checks, AusCheck, medical assessment and/or drug and alcohol testing.

Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.

Origin recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.