Principal Test Engineer (Lottery)

TL;DR

Principal Test Engineer (Lottery): Ensuring reliability, performance, and customer readiness of complex lottery systems deployed in live customer environments with an accent on incident leadership, system integration testing, and test strategy execution. Focus on leading root cause analysis, validating end-to-end integration scenarios, and providing technical quality leadership across projects and global teams.

Hybrid role with 50% office attendance mandatory at our office in Perth, Australia.

Company

Innovative global leader in lottery technology delivering secure systems, retail and digital solutions, with approximately 6,000 employees worldwide.

What you will do

• Serve as primary escalation point for customer issues and production incidents, owning investigation, coordination, and resolution including root cause analysis.
• Support and validate system integration in customer environments, defining end-to-end scenarios with failure and recovery paths.
• Define and execute test strategies, plans, functional, integration, and regression testing with full traceability to requirements.
• Provide technical quality leadership across projects, ensuring timelines, standards, and continuous improvement of processes.
• Define, analyze, and document requirements, maintaining auditable test plans, reports, and release readiness assessments.
• Coordinate with global engineering, support, operations teams, and third-party vendors across time zones.

Requirements

• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
• 6+ years’ experience in software testing, including complex systems and integration testing.
• Proven technical leadership in software delivery, system integration, or customer support.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, defect management, and production support operations.
• ISTQB Advanced Level (or equivalent) certification.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills under pressure.

Nice to have

• Experience working with globally distributed teams (outside Australia) and offshore models.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-first mindset with focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities.
• Collaborative environment valuing accountability, resilience, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Hybrid work model supporting work-life balance.
• Commitment to high standards of service, integrity, and responsibility.