Job Description

Join the revolution in hospitality tech!

Liven is a leading global data, technology, and customer experience provider for the hospitality industry. From humble beginnings, we have grown to serve over 6,000 venues and millions of diners across Australia, the USA, and Southeast Asia, processing over 120 million transactions worth more than $3 billion (AUD) annually.

At Liven, our platform is built to help hospitality businesses save more and work smarter by seamlessly integrating every aspect of their operations — from ordering and payments to back-of-house management

Driven by a deep passion for the hospitality industry, we continuously innovate to elevate the experience for both venues and their guests. Our solutions are powered by AI-enriched insights and automated workflows, enabling smarter decision-making and smoother operations at scale.

We’re proud to be an AI-first organisation By automating repetitive tasks, we free up space for our teams — and our customers — to focus on what truly matters: solving complex problems, delighting guests, and driving meaningful growth.

Key Milestones:

• Expansion: Acquired OrderUp, Abacus, Zeemart, Copper and Nomnie forming Asia Pacific’s largest end-to-end group in hospitality technology.
• Global Reach: From Melbourne to New York, Singapore to Jakarta, and all the way to Chennai, our presence spans major cities across the globe.

If you're someone who thrives on creativity, bold thinking, and using technology to make things better, faster, and smarter — you’ll feel right at home here.

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About the role

As a SDET Lead at Liven, you will play a hands-on technical leadership role in shaping our quality engineering practices and automation strategy. You’ll architect and develop testing frameworks, guide engineering teams on testability, and ensure our backend services—built in Express.js (Node.js) and Go—are reliable and scalable. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong ownership, and the ability to lead both by example and through influence across teams.

What you'll do

• Lead and contribute hands-on to the design, development, and evolution of testing architecture and automation frameworks.
• Architect and implement high-quality automated test suites (unit, integration, contract, and E2E) for Node.js/Express and Go services.
• Ensure automated tests are efficiently integrated and executed within CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineers to embed testability into system design and promote high-quality code practices.
• Drive exploratory testing and guide advanced testing efforts for complex, distributed systems.
• Define quality standards, testing strategies, and metrics across engineering teams.
• Mentor SDETs and engineers, uplifting skills and fostering a strong automation and quality culture.
  
  

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in test automation, software engineering, or quality engineering.
• Strong, hands-on programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Go
• Extensive experience in architecting and scaling automated testing frameworks.
• Proficiency with automated testing tools such as Jest, Mocha, Supertest, Go test, Testify, or Ginkgo.
• Strong experience with E2E tools like Playwright or Cypress.
• Solid understanding of API testing using tools like Postman or REST-assured.
• Strong experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD environments.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized test environments.
• Familiarity with contract testing (e.g., Pact).
• Experience with performance testing and profiling methodologies.
• Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Background working with large-scale distributed systems.