Senior Test Analyst
- Senior Test Analyst
- Initial contract up until February 2027; possibility of extension
- Adelaide Based Position
Seeking experienced Senior Test Analysts/Test Leads to support a major higher education transformation across student systems, enrolment and digital platforms. Lead functional, integration, E2E, regression, accessibility and UAT activities. Requires 8+ years’ experience and ISTQB Foundation certification.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Familiarisation and experience with one or more of the followings skillsets, Adobe Experience Manager, Student Systems Portal, PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and CRM.
- Strong interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder involvement in the testing effort.
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) to report on product quality, testing performed, and testing quality.
- Experience working as a Test Practice specialist in high-pressure and demanding environments.
- Accountable for test planning, execution, monitoring, reporting for efficient delivery timelines.
- Monitor, measure, control and report to management on Test progress, product quality, test results and test completion.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, set priorities, and balance the demands of a complex working environment.
- To define, design, drive and deliver all testing work, including Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, E2E, Regression and UAT.
- Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage. Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing.
- Experience in writing and executing Test cases for different phases of testing like System Testing, E2E Testing, UAT testing.
- Experience in Functional Testing, UI Testing, and Cross-browser testing, accessibility testing in System Testing, SIT, and UAT.
- Hands on testing work prior to facilitating UAT and sign off from business areas.
Responsibilities:
- Take full ownership of all testing deliverables from day one, working self-sufficiently and proactively.
- Prepare Test Scenarios covering affected legacy majors and student cohorts
- Complete functional, integration, regression and accessibility testing.
- Complete User-acceptance testing with Curriculum, Student Administration and relevant academic stakeholders.
- Lead complex testing activities on large, highly integrated solutions.
- Create, execute, and document functional, non-functional, business acceptance, and regression test cases.
- Produce test deliverables documentation, including Master Test Plans, Detailed Test Plans, Test Summary Reports, Test Incident
- (Defect) Reports, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Traceability Matrices.
- Worked as part of an agile, cross-functional team.
- Formulate robust test plans and guide the project team to achieve set objectives.
- Report testing progress precisely and concisely to program teams and clients regularly.
- Maintain current knowledge of testing and quality assurance concepts and practices.
- Manage defect management and reporting, bug tracking and defect triage using JIRA Test Management Tool
- Using Jira and Zephyr testing tool for creation and execution of test cases, creation of testing dashboard, traceability matrix, and defect management
Key Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or Postgraduate in Information System or Information Technology.
- Must have ISTQB Foundations or equivalent.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Previous Higher Education experience is desirable.
- Familiarisation with Learning and Student systems application.
- Familiarisation and experience with Peoplesoft Campus Solution
- Familiarisation and experience with Adobe and or CRM
- Progress towards postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
- 8+ years demonstrated, hands-on testing experience in a Senior Tester or Test Lead position.
Apply now or reach out to Ivan Aureus at 0480 806 152 for a chat!