Overview
Cathara Consulting is an Australian-based Consulting firm specialising in Business Transformations and Technology Consulting.
Our client in Darwin is seeking a Junior Test Analyst to support the delivery of a key program of work, through to October 2026.
Responsibilities
- Requirements analysis and static testing
- Test analysis, test condition identification, design, development and execution of test cases for system, system integration, user acceptance and production verification testing
- Automation development and testing
- Consult and gather input from business SMEs and development team in developing or supporting the development of user acceptance and production verification testing
- Facilitating test case reviews
- Recording of test results and evidence
- Test data identification and creation
- Troubleshooting test failures and errors
- Raising defect records, participation in defect triage, and retesting fixes
- Identification of regression tests in area of change
- Creating and maintaining test case to requirement traceability
- Raising risks and issues relating to testing to Test Manager
- Providing test progress report and status updates
Essential Skills and Experience
- Experience in a hands-on systems integration testing role, web application, mobility and portals.
- Demonstrated experience in manual testing methods and tools such as Jira.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse and contextualise functional requirements and to translate the requirements into test cases. Ability to gather more detailed requirement from subject matter experts if required.
- Ability to troubleshoot and narrow down the specific conditions causing failure.
- Ability to learn new concepts.
- Intermediate skills with SQL Server databases.
- Ability to identify product risks for targeted testing.
- Demonstrated accountability for reporting and reconciliation on testing outcomes to the Test Manager and stakeholders.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience in developing and executing automation testing possibly using SmartBear Software.
- Experience working in a large scale/multi-year program environment will be well regarded.
- Experience in data-focused testing including working with large volume of structured data, and validating it through extraction, transformation, and loading processes
- Good understanding of data mapping and reconciliation to check consistency between involved systems
- University degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or related field.
- Familiarity and experience with the following tools/applications would be beneficial:
- Atlassian – JIRA and Confluence
- SQL Server Management Studio
- SmartBear tools - TestComplete/TestExecute
Clearance Requirements
National Police Clearance & PF166
Please note due to the clearance requirements for this role, you must be either an Australian Citizen or a Permanent Resident with 5+ years of Residential History in Australia to be considered.
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📌 Junior Test Analyst
🏢 Cathara Consulting
📍 Darwin