About the Company
WINNERS 2025 Local NT Business Awards (Category Consultants)
Moraitis Consulting Pty Ltd is a local Darwin based ICT Consulting and Recruitment firm with over 20 years industry experience within varied industry sectors including Government, Oil and Gas, Health, Education, Utility, Police & Emergency Services, Pharmaceutical, Telco, Community Services and Defense.
We are strong advocates for quality and looking after our people.
About the Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Quality and Testing Manager to lead and manage all testing activities across the Education Management Transformation Program (EMTP).
The Education Management Transformation Program is a multi-year program to uplift the NT Department of Education's ICT environment to support the implementation of a Student Centric Management Solution including the consolidation of data and reporting facilities from several legacy and nonconforming systems within the education ICT ecosystem.
This role will define and implement test strategies, establish testing frameworks and tools; and lead a team of test analysts to ensure the quality and success of program deliverables.
This is an exceptional opportunity for a results-oriented professional with a strong background in quality management and testing within digital environments. You'll play a vital role in supporting the agency's mission to deliver innovative and reliable digital solutions.
If you have proven leadership skills and a passion for quality assurance in the digital sector, join our client's team and make a significant impact on government digital services.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Quality & Testing Manager will work closely with EMTP leadership, business stakeholders, vendors, and technical/functional teams to deliver high-quality testing outcomes. The Quality & Testing Manager will:
• Develop and maintain the program wide Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Summary Reports.
• Define and implement testing frameworks and processes.
• Implement a test automation suite and approach.
• Implement tools and processes to document test cases, execute testing activities and manage issues/defects.
• Lead, mentor and manage a team of test analysts and automation testers.
• Plan, schedule and oversee all testing activities across the program phases.
Essential Skills and Experience
• Demonstrated experience as a Test Manager or Senior Test Lead on a large ICT program.
• Strong background in developing and executing test strategies, plans and reports.
• Demonstrated experience in establishing test frameworks and quality assurance standards.
• Experience in establishing test automation frameworks.
• Proficient in test and defect management tools e.g. Jira.
• Experience in leading and managing test phase and types, including functional, regression, system, data migration, reports, integration, UAT, performance and security testing activities.
• Experience in leading and managing the testing of large Data Migrations.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing testing teams.
• Demonstrated background in managing heavily integrated test environments for optimal testing outcomes.
• Proven ability to manage priorities, risks and timelines in a complex ICT implementation.
Desirable Skills and Experience
• A minimum 5 years of demonstrable experience in a Test Manager / Senior Test Lead role.
• Experience working in the education sector within government.
• Possess relevant certification such as ISTQB.
• Experience in testing activities for a COTS based solution.
• Experience with SmartBear - TestComplete automation tool.
Personal Qualities required of Candidates:
• High level social and written skills with ability to effectively communicate with team members and stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a large team environment with members of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
• Self-starter with high personal drive and a positive attitude.
• Disciplined and accountable for supporting and maintaining work products.
• Behaves in a respectful and professional manner, maintaining high integrity and transparency when delivering work.
• Excellent problem solver and critical thinker.
• Promotes teamwork and collaboration by engaging stakeholders and team members.
• Services Personnel are also expected to abide (and confirm they will) by the DCDD Corporate Values of Honesty,
Professional, Respectful, Accountable and Innovative.
Required Documents – ensure you as the candidate action these points
1. A valid National Police Clearance (NPC), within 12 months, is required before the suitable candidate can commence.
If you do not have an NPC, please apply via
1. NT Working with Children (OCHRE) Required. Applications at SAFE NT Online Applications
Location:
The suitable candidate will be required to be based in Darwin for the duration of this engagement.