Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)

The bottleneck in modern software delivery is no longer writing code — it’s verifying that code works. As Principal Engineer – QA and Automation , you will own the quality architecture for a platform where AI agents generate a significant and growing share of production code. Your job is to build the verification and validation systems that make this possible – the automated oracle testing, risk-calibrated quality gates, integration harnesses, and regression infrastructure that give us confidence to ship at the speed AI enables.

What you’ll do

• Designing and building automated verification systems that validate AI-generated code at scale – ensuring agent output meets correctness, integration, and complian...