About the Client

This government agency strives to encourage sustainable growth and protection of Australian industries including the delivery of a national innovation system to drive knowledge creation, international competitiveness and greater productivity. This department is committed to developing policies and delivering programs, in partnership with stakeholders, to provide lasting economic benefits based on principles of social justice and equity for all Australians.

About The Role

Location: ACT (Partial remote working arrangements can be acceptable)

Our Manual Tester will actively be involved in the design, develop, and execute manual scripts for a range of applications, including websites and web apps. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in functional, integration, and regression testing, along with hands-on experience with DevOps/TFS for test planning and defect management.

They will be adept at producing high-quality reports, developing test plans for custom applications, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, agile environment. Knowledge of cloud-based systems, particularly Microsoft Azure and Office 365, and familiarity with WCAG conformance is essential.

It is a requirement of this position that the successful candidate must be an Australian Citizen and either hold or be eligible to obtain a security clearance at the Baseline level.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Design, develop, and run manual scripts for testing a variety of application products including websites, web apps and services

• Design, implement, and execute regression and functional tests for target applications

• Effective collaboration with a cross-functional team working with an agile structure – including a product owner, scrum master, business analysts, UI developers, architect & testers to produce a solution in accordance with user and stakeholder requirements and broader divisional objectives

• Experience with DevOps/TFS for test planning and defect management.

• Hands on experience with functional testing, Integration testing and regression testing.

Skills and Experience:

• Understanding and experience working with cloud-based systems such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Azure DevOps, including TFVC and Git repositories Solid understanding of testing principles and techniques, with well-developed software testing skills and demonstrated experience in application/system tester roles. Expertise in developing test artefacts, including writing, reviewing, and executing complex test plans and cases and developing test strategies

• A thorough knowledge or understanding in testing digital solutions for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) conformance. Current accessibility training is highly desirable.

• Experience developing test plans/cases for custom applications, including the Azure and Microsoft suite of products and services. Experience tracking and managing test plans and test case through Azure DevOps

Applications:

To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY.’ For further information, please contact Sanat Anmadwar on Sanat.Anmadwar@talentinternational.com.

The Opportunity
Our client is a community focused federal government agency. They have an exciting opportunity for a APS5 level UAT Test Analyst to join the team.

Based in Richmond or Geelong at APS5 level, initial approval for 12 months from initial employment, with the potential to extend, paying an hourly rate of $55.24 + Super.

Requirements:

• Executing UAT in business systems, portals and mobile applications.
• Creating test cases, test data and creating manual and automated test scripts.
• Supporting acceptance criteria testing and system integration testing.
• Reviewing technical documentation, identifying dependencies and risks related to testing.
• Managing the overall experience of the UAT testers as vehicle for business readiness.
• Working closely with the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), investigating and triaging defects raised by business users.
• Reviewing user stories, technical designs and wireframes and preparing test cases which align to the coverage matrix.
• Contributing to post implementation and post incident reviews.

Key skills:

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Management or related field
• Experience in exploratory testing
• Experience in functional (system, integration, and regression) testing and non-functional testing
• Experience in working alongside developers and business analysts
• Some experience or desire to learn SQL
• Strong time management, organisational and oral & written communication skills
• Ability to learn at a rapid pace and work well in a fast-paced environment with multiple and conflicting priorities
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and as a team player
• Due to high demand, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
• You must be able to provide evidence of Australian Citizenship if successful for this position

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For more information or to apply, please email: Samuel.beckett@talentinternational.com

We’re seeking an Intermediate Manual Test Analyst to become a valued member of our client’s supportive team and contribute to their exciting projects. This role is with a kiwi company in the public sector, offering a chance to showcase your skills while fostering your professional growth.

Why you’re a legend…

• Strong background in manual testing, with hands-on experience in identifying and resolving issues.
• You have experience in web testing and understand how to ensure the applications are user-friendly and reliable.
• Able to utilize SQL to perform database queries and supporting testing efforts.
• Have a good eye for UI elements and can asses them for both functionality and design.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to clearly articulate findings and collaborate with others.
• To be eligible

Next Steps:
If this sounds like something of interest to you, APPLY today! We want to hear from you!

Talent are currently recruiting for a Senior Test Analyst to join a large financial institution. You will be joining a new long-term program of work upgrading the clients Credit Card Platform. This is a 12-month max-term position offering fantastic opportunities for career growth as well as flexible hybrid working options.

• Financial Services experience is ideal, working across Payments, Core Banking, Credit Card Systems & Integration
• Amazing team culture + working environment
• Highly competitive Salary Package / WFH 2 days per week

Your impact and contribution
As the Senior Test Analyst, you are responsible for implementing and executing the test strategy for the Credit Card project and associated initiatives. You will provide expertise and execute the implementation of testing strategies including critical activities such as planning, stakeholder management, reporting, test automation, resource management and risk/ issue management.
Your stakeholder management skills and ability to prioritise workflow will ensure that testing activities are delivered in alignment with project schedules, quality standards, and budget.
You will contribute to the continual improvement of the testing methodology, test tools, processes, approaches, and techniques.

Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate, identify, design and develop associated test cases
  • Analyse user stories and/use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility
• Record test results and raise defect records and re-test fixes
• Manage test case traceability and documentation
  • Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression)
  • Work with the team to design and deliver quality automated and manual testing to meet delivery milestones
  • Actively contribute to the analysis of business specifications, solutions, estimations, and implementation decisions and contribute to acceptance criteria

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Testing- ideally test automation – and complex integration projects
• Significant Experience with CD/CI tooling such as Jenkins
• Experience managing automation testing tools such as Selenium (Java)
• Familiar with Jira, Quality Centre/ALM or equivalent tools
• Experienced in version controlling using Git/ Stash
• Experience with Behaviour-Drive Development, including Cucumber and Gherkin
• Experience with API Service testing and virtualisation tools such as SoapUi, and Parasoft.
• Experience with performance testing tools, such as FinSim, JMeter
• Experience with web usability and navigation standards (including web browser features and limitations)
• Demonstrated relationship management, consulting, negotiation, and facilitation skills Cucumber, BDD and TestNG
• Experience working in banking financial services or wealth management domain.
• Strong functional testing capabilities in SIT, UAT and Regression Testing, working with upstream and downstream testing, with reference to data feed.

How to Apply:
To find out more, please “Apply for this job” or contact Jackson Bruce on (07) 3221 3333 or Jackson.bruce@talentinternational.com

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• Seeking automation and manual experience
• 11 months + 12 months
• Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane
• Must be an Australian Citizen

Our Client

Our client is a CBD-based government agency tasked with developing policies, programs and services that focus on innovative new ideas and industries to create future opportunity and strengthen the Australian economy. Working with this department, you will have the opportunity to provide high-level expertise to enable the enhancement of their corporate systems, as well as the continual improvement of their customer-facing services.

The Role

Our client is seeking a Senior Tester to join a multidisciplinary team and support the development of several critical business functions. The successful candidate will be responsible for undertaking functional and non-functional testing across the lifecycle of the project.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Undertaking automated and/or manual testing against functional and non-functional project requirements, including data migration, system integration and accessibility
• Preparing, reviewing, and executing test cases, and recording results in Azure DevOps.
• Using C#, VBS, Java and Ruby or similar in the development of automation testing.
• Analyse requirements and ensure appropriate test coverage.

Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience undertaking system and integration testing of large-scale systems
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment
• Scripting skills in C#, VBS, Java, and Ruby
• Experience in a large government agency

To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

• Seeking Digital Test Lead
• 12 months + 12 months
• Canberra location
• Must be an Australian Citizen

Our Client
Our client is highly respected organisation, who provides services and supports to thousands of individuals around Australia. With multiple locations around Canberra, this vital Government organisation seeks only the most skilled and professional individuals to assist them in developing programs, policies, and initiatives that will improve the quality of life for Australia’s most vulnerable.

The Role
Our client is seeking an experienced Test Lead to lead and conduct testing activities across one or more concurrent ICT digital projects. The successful candidate will work closely with the QA and Test Management Director and Digital Delivery Director.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Lead efforts to maintain and improve the overall quality of the Digital portfolio.
• Establish a well-structured testing strategy, including comprehensive test planning and execution.
• Facilitate effective communication and coordination between various teams involved in the project.
• Spearhead strategic test automation initiatives, identifying opportunities for effective automation to accelerate testing cycles and improve efficiency.

Skills and Experience

• Experience leading digital 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 WAVE, JAWS, Zoom Text, Jira Xray and CRM, specifically Salesforce.
• Demonstrated understanding of Accessibility & WCAG 2.1 guidelines and what this means for the User Experience (UX).

To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

Talent International is on the hunt for a skilled Test Manager to join a dynamic State Government Department in Brisbane CBD. This is a 12-month contract with the potential for extensions.

What We Offer:

// Contract Duration: 12 months with likely extensions
// Work Flexibility: 2 days of work-from-home per week
// Location: Brisbane CBD

The Role: The Information and Technologies branch of the Department is seeking a dedicated Test Manager to uphold the highest quality standards and demonstrate exceptional integrity. The primary focus will be on managing and executing testing for the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) projects. However, our flexible resource model means you’ll also contribute to various other initiatives within the branch during your tenure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a robust Test Strategy in an agile environment, ensuring alignment with departmental requirements
• Define the scope of both functional and non-functional testing for each release
• Create comprehensive Test Plans, identifying activities, dependencies, and resources to mitigate system quality risks
• Adjust test plans and activities as new or changed requirements emerge in the agile development process
• Participate in sprint planning and estimation
• Prepare, deploy, and manage resources for various types of testing (system, integration, performance, security, etc.)
• Design effective test measurements and metrics for the product

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Test Manager, particularly in coordinating and executing test cases for MFA and PAM projects
• Proficiency with Microsoft DevOps test plans, execution, and reporting
• Extensive knowledge of Testing Management Tools and expertise in planning, coordinating, and controlling diverse test activities
• Strong skills in developing, planning, and executing both manual and automated test cases and associated data preparation scripts
• Experience in project-level testing and reporting
• Agile and adaptable, with the ability to work across multiple project teams in a short-term capacity to develop their test strategies

How to Apply:

To learn more or to apply, click “Apply for this job” or contact James Grierson or Mats Rorvik at 07 3031 4522 or via email at james.grierson@talentinternational.com or mats.rorvik@talentinternational.com.

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Elevate your career with us and make a significant impact within a leading State Government Department!

Senior Test Analyst
Initial contract for 12 months + possible extensions
Adelaide based Position

Candidates with valid Australian visa will be considered for this role. The client does not offer visa sponsorsihip.

One of our clients is looking for a Senior Test Analyst, based in Adelaide.

Skills:

• Over 10 years of testing experience (manual or automation) in writing test plan and test strategy document
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and test processes.
• Some experience in people management and team leadership.
• Strong Data Warehousing experience. Perform thorough data validation and verification for Data Warehousing projects.
• Solid SQL skills is a MUST . Write and execute complex SQL queries to validate data integrity and performance.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

If you want to know more, click “APPLY” or you can Shilpa Sharma at shilpa.sharma@talentinternational.com

This iconic WA company are a household name and brand; with a national footprint underway, they are delivering multiple Enterprise-wide projects with a desire to appoint an experienced Release Coordinator to join their existing DevOps team on an initial 4-month contract term, with view for potential extension.

Key Responsibilities will include (but not limited to):

• Assist with scheduling and execution of deployments.
• Help to ensure releases meet release stage-gates and achieve signoff.
• Monitor ongoing releases for potential issues / delays and help to facilitate the resolution of issues that arise.
• Manage/track release related risks.
• Assist with designing and enhancing release processes to better suit the business.
• Track release outcomes required to measure the success of releases; release duration, test sign off results, rollback, or deployment failures.
• Help to identify release bottlenecks and process gaps.
• Assist with scheduling and plan standard releases.
• Conduct release requirements and dependency discovery.
• Creation and maintenance of pre-release related governance documentation such as runsheets, release schedules, approval cards, etc

Required Skills & Experience:

• Knowledge of software testing and release lifecycle.
• Experience in managing releases across various portfolios.
• Experience eliciting requirements from stakeholders.
• Proven strong communication skills, and the ability to train and educate users.
• Knowledge and understanding of JIRA for workflow management.
• Experience in change management tools (Cherwell).
• Experience working with Agile SDLC or related certifications.
• Proven track record of release process design or contribution to release process improvement.
• Hands on experience in software development or testing an advantage!
• Understanding of version control and versioning also an advantage!

Please note that only locally based Perth, WA candidates are being considered for this position, and you must also hold fully unrestricted working rights for Australia.

If you match the selection criteria above and are interested in finding out more about this position, please forward your updated CV to Vindhya.bhushan@talentinternational.com by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button.

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For further enquires please call Vindhya Bhushan on 0490 888 247.