This pay rate is inclusive of mandatory 25% casual loading

Excellent opportunity for a Senior Test Lead to join a busy, multi-year program of work

• Senior Test Lead | 12 + 12 month contract Role | Large Testing Team
• Based in Melbourne or Canberra | Onsite and WFH | No Remote
• Approx. $115-135/hour | Multi-year, Long-term Opportunity

As the Senior Test Lead you will be leading and conducting testing activities across a range of projects. You will be working closely with the Test Manager to ensure test strategy and standards are in place. You will need to be a passionate, enthusiastic leader with excellent communication, stakeholder management skills.

You will need to be an Australian Citizen to be eligible for this role.

Key Duties and Responsibilities...

• Manage test delivery with vendors and internal staff to ensure that across projects the delivery remain within scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets as defined with project teams.
• Test SME understanding the tools and leading management and other stakeholders to use them.
• Analyse and report on test activities and results, and escalating issues and risks to project management.
• Develop test plans, test cases and supporting test data and/or requirements, under own direction from the specifications.
• Assign execution test cases at various stages of testing.
• Contribute to team improvement initiatives and projects, including team tools, process changes, and test automation.
• Identify, manage and document defects, programming errors and operational characteristics that are inconsistent with stated requirements and design specifications.
• Manage testing for multiple projects.
• Accurately record time and effort for test case.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure effective and timely implementation of projects.
• Manage Defect Triages and meetings.
• Coordinate with business teams and supports them during UAT.

Essential criteria

• Experience leading testing activities for complex programs and creating Test Summary reports.
• Agile testing experience with team member accountability to commitment and delivery each sprint.
• Extensive experience using test management tools including Jira Xray and CRM, specifically Salesforce.
• Analytical skills and problem-solving skills needed to manage multiple factors on a project simultaneously.
• Strong team-work skills across business, vendors and geographically dispersed virtual teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships and facilitate innovation and new ways of working with teams.

Desirable criteria

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
• Demonstrated experience working for large organisations on complex software deployments.
• Other relevant experience in a related technical field (application development, Database development, deployment/implementation and infrastructure).
• Comfortable with new ways of thinking about accessibility and enthusiastic about accessible design & development will be highly regarded.

Like to know more?

To submit your application, please apply online using the appropriate link below. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Brett Elliott via email [email protected] quoting Ref No. 243910.