Senior It Test Analysts

Australian Citizens residing in Australia with ability to obtain Baseline Clearance only respond. Contract start 11 December 2023 to 30 June 2024, 12 months extensions. Australian Citizen, Ability to obtain Baseline Clearance, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, or Melbourne role. Send your responses to ****** Overview The department is seeking highly skilled and energetic Senior Test Analysts to work in our project teams. This is a fast-paced environment, and we require enthusiastic, professional testers focused on delivering quality digital solutions. The successful applicants will have the opportunity to work on projects using leading edge technology and delivering great outcomes for our business partners. Responsibilities may include: Effectively delivering testing objectives as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including manual and automated testing. Contributing to planning activities with testing estimation at a program, increment and sprint level. Working with the test manager or test leads to identify the scope of the testing required for releases based on the business outcomes and aligned to the department's testing frameworks Producing test artefacts such as test plans, test cases and test summaries utilising test management tools Working with analysts and developers to plan test activities for test case design, identify the testing effort required monitor progress and manage timeframes. Recording and tracking test results and defects utilising test management tools Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission. Essential Criteria 1. Demonstrated experience (5 years+) undertaking system/integration testing of large-scale systems, using manual and/or automated testing methods. 2. Demonstrated experience producing high quality testing artefacts, including test plans, test cases and test summaries and experience in the use of test management tools such as JIRA/Azure DevOps 3. Demonstrated knowledge of various software testing methodologies, types and test case design techniques 4. Demonstrated understanding of Testing principles such as Test Phases,Test reporting, Test Traceability, Defect Triage and the Defect Management Lifecycle 5. Experience working in an Agile software development environment and working in a multi-disciplinary project team Desirable Criteria 1. Previous experience working on the Departments Employment and Workplace Relations IT systems or experience in a Government Agency 2. Experience working across the Microsoft technology stack, including D365, Azure services and SQL 3. Experience with automation testing frameworks and tools, including Selenium and SOAP UI