Length of Contract
ASAP - 31/10/2026
Scope of Works
Seeking two experienced Junior Test Analyst to support the delivery of the NCIS program and perform a range of tasks including:
• 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
• create and maintain test case to requirement traceability
• raise risks and issues relating to testing to Test Manager
• provide 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 contextualize 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.
Personal Qualities required of Candidate(s)
• High level social and written skills with ability to effectively support colleagues and stakeholders in the project and other interested stakeholders.
• Ability to work either in a large team environment with members of diverse cultures and backgrounds or remote offices connected to Darwin.
• 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.
Deliverables
Support project delivery and take responsibility for the following:
• consultation with project team, end-users and other key stakeholders to manage assigned test activities
• complete and provide review feedback on requirements, specifications and test cases
• test case creation, execution and management completing other tasks as required from time to time.
Familiarity and experience with the following tools/applications would be beneficial:
• Atlassian – JIRA and Confluence
• SQL Server Management Studio
• SmartBear tools - TestComplete/TestExecute