**Job description**:
- **Federal Government Assignment**:
- ** Contract Term: 12 Months initial contract**:
- ** Location: Surry Hills, Sydney**:
- ** $602.55 + super (Daily)**
**About the Team**:
Our client welcomes EL1 test Led to their Digital Division develops and improves digital solutions to enhance the experience and objectives of participants of the Client assignment. It enables effective management of plans through digital platforms that interact with the client and relevant providers. The division develops, communicates, and executes the Digital Strategy and Agenda across the client assignment. The Participant Digital Experience and Digital Delivery teams will implement new and enhanced digital platforms to improve the participant and provider experience. It will make it easier for participants to choose and interact with providers, and to engage with the client to achieve their goals.
**About the role**:
The EL1 Test Lead is accountable under broad direction to undertake very complex work that delivers quality outcomes and facilitates the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across the government client Assignment. The position is an important team leadership position within the client and will have delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities of substantial depth involving significant detail. The role requires providing leadership, control, planning, resource management, performance management and decision making for the Team Membership and assigned Contractors working within the Work Area. The EL1 Test Lead is responsible for actively managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships and where required will represent and negotiate on behalf of the client interests across a range of forums.
**Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to**:
- Leading testing of participant and provider digital tools including: planning, preparing and delivering user acceptance testing (UAT) and business verification testing (BVT) for product releases
- Undertaking quality management and testing assurance activities through the preparation and review of test strategies, plans, accessible test scripts in Easy English, coverage matrices and sign off reports.
- Managing and supporting participants and their representatives; and registered providers to undertake UAT and BVT andWorking with IT team to ensure environment and test cases are available for testing.
- Managing and tracking all testing activities and escalating defects.
- Estimating effort and time requirements for testing activities.
- Managing the resources of testers to support the various testing phases as required=
**Key Skills required for this role**:
- The test lead will be responsible for engaging with participants and providers directly.
- Quality management of testing for the development and execution of test plans tests scripts and reports to ensure the quality of our products
- Skilled at testing systems, processes, and methodologies
- Strong co-ordination and planning skills to support test execution including ability to review tests and reprioritise if required.
- Solid stakeholder management skills to support working across multiple teams, products, and stakeholders
- Ability to define the scope of UAT and BVT testing within the context of each release / delivery
- Ability to understand complex solution designs and translate them into Test case
- Experience using JIRA to manage defects
- Familiar in working within an Agile squad
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience managing UAT directly with end users
**Our client Work Environment**:
The role is required to be performed in a work environment that has the following core characteristics and requirements:
- Working in an open office environment (exposure to general workplace chatter)
- Working from home on occasion
- Working in a hot desk environment
- Significant periods of sitting at a counter or desk
- Operating a telephone
- Computer/screen based work Job Specification for: EL1 Test Lead
- Assistance animals may be in the work area
**Applicants must be Australian Citizens to be eligible for this position.**
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To be eligible it is essential that applicants hold
Note: You may be required to provide evidence of your COVID-19 vaccination status.