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.
Key duties & 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