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Australian Unity have an exciting opportunity for a Testing Practice Lead. The Testing Practice Lead is responsible for leading and managing the testing and quality assurance practices. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the delivery of high-quality software and products that meet stakeholder expectations and comply with industry standards. The Testing Practice Manager will be tasked with developing and implementing effective testing strategies and optimizing testing processes to achieve efficient and reliable outcomes. This role plays a critical part in driving continuous improvement, promoting collaboration, and fostering a culture of quality across group technology and the organization.
This position is a critical role to support the technology model where practices sit both in Business Platform and within the Group Technology teams.
Key Accountabilities include, but are not limited to:
* Testing Management: Develop and implement practice strategies across testing, engineering, and implementation teams, ensuring adherence to established testing processes and methodologies. Additionally, provide inputs into audit findings identified and help support teams with appropriate management response actions
* Practice Management: Use the subject matter experts and working groups to ensure the tools are configured to support the needs of the teams, also managing licence deployment across appropriate tools
* Reporting & monitoring: Leverage the tools and reporting platforms to build monitoring techniques to ensure compliance with the framework established. Additionally, develop management framework for escalations to appropriate Technology leader
* Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with Technology Leaders (Group and Platform) to build a collaborative environment to indirectly lead teams and build a culture of collaboration.
* Strategy & Planning Support: Support the development planning lifecycle to feed into business case development, product build, implementation and run processes to ensure planned and executed with the right resource support models
Key things we are looking for
* Relevant tertiary and post graduate qualifications preferred. Successful completion
* of a relevant post-graduate qualification would be highly regarded.
* Demonstrated experience in leading a testing team or practice. Additional experience in Project Management would be well regarded
* Knowledge of technology solutions, including hardware, software, and networking
* Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
* Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
* Ability to build and maintain strong client relationships
* Experience in managing vendor relationships and contracts
* Excellent interpersonal, influencer and relationship management skills.
What's on Offer
You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:
* Competitive salary & bonus program
* Enjoy additional yearly Well-Being and Community leave days
* 14-week paid parental leave, with equal benefit for both parents
* Employee Referral Program
* Employee Assistance Program – support and assistance for you and your partner at those times in life when you need it most.
* Maxxia Rewards - a great range of discounts and benefits at selected retail outlets, department stores, attractions, travel, cinemas, restaurants.
* Discounts across the Australian Unity business including Private Health Insurance, General Insurance + more
* Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform
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Where to from here?
Please contact Richard Maher, Talent Acquisition Practice Lead, for a confidential discussion or more details –
Australian Unity is an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from all members of the community, including people of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander descent, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and, mature aged people.
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