Senior Service Virtualisation Engineer

Role Purpose

Lead the design, implementation and adoption of an enterprise Service Virtualisation capability across Australia Post to accelerate shift-left testing, reduce environment dependency bottlenecks and improve delivery velocity across API, integration and event-driven ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership

• Define the Service Virtualisation roadmap, standards and operating model.
  
• Establish governance, asset management and reusable virtual service catalogues.
  
• Drive adoption across Quality Engineering, Architecture, Integration and Delivery teams.
  

Solution Design & Implementation

• Design and implement virtual services for:
  
• REST APIs
  
• SOAP Services
  
• GraphQL APIs
  
• Kafka/Event-driven integrations
  
• MQ/JMS messaging
  
• File-based integrations (SFTP/APST)
  
• Build configurable, reusable and stateful virtual services supporting both positive and negative test scenarios.
  

Tooling & Automation

• Lead evaluation and implementation of:
  
• BlazeMeter Service Virtualisation
  
• WireMock
  
• Mountebank
  
• Pact / Contract Testing frameworks
  
• Integrate virtual services into CI/CD pipelines and test automation frameworks.
  
• Establish repository and versioning strategy for virtual services and test data.
  

Stakeholder Engagement

• Facilitate workshops with Architecture, Platform, Integration and QE teams.
  
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers and testers.
  
• Define onboarding and support processes for virtual service consumers.
  

Mandatory Skills

• Strong experience in Service Virtualisation and Integration Testing.
  
• Hands-on expertise with WireMock and/or Mountebank.
  
• Experience with BlazeMeter Service Virtualisation or similar enterprise SV platforms.
  
• Strong understanding of REST, SOAP, JSON, XML and OpenAPI/Swagger.
  
• Experience with Kafka, MQ/JMS and event-driven architectures.
  
• Knowledge of Contract Testing (Pact or equivalent).
  
• CI/CD experience using GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
  
• Strong stakeholder management and solution architecture skills.
  

Desirable Skills

• SAP integration testing
  
• Kong, MuleSoft, Tibco or API Gateway platforms
  
• AWS, Azure or GCP
  
• Test Environment Management
  
• Shift-left and Quality Engineering transformation initiatives
  

Success Measures (First 6 Months)

• Define Client’s Service Virtualisation strategy and standards.
  
• Establish governance and a reusable virtual service catalogue.
  
• Deliver a pilot capability for priority integrations (e.g. EMR, AVER, SAP).
  
• Implement API virtualisation, contract testing and CI/CD integration patterns.
  
• Reduce dependency-driven testing delays across selected programmes.
  
• Provide a scalable enterprise capability ready for wider adoption.
  

Ideal Profile

A hands-on Service Virtualisation Engineer who combines:

• Deep technical expertise in APIs and integrations
  
• Strong Quality Engineering background
  
• Enterprise architecture mindset
  
• Experience building and governing reusable virtual services
  
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead organisation-wide adoption
  

Preferred Backgrounds: Service Virtualisation Architect, Integration Test Architect, Quality Engineering Architect, or Enterprise Integration Specialist.