Canberra, ACT, Australia

IT System Testers (Multiple)

 Job Description:

Australian Citizens with ability to obtain Baseline Clearance residing in Australia only respond.

  • Contract start 22 January 2024 to 12 Months, 2 x 12 months extensions.
  • Australian Citizen, Ability to obtain Baseline Clearance, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne role.

Send your responses to jobs@softtestpays.com

Overview

The department is seeking highly skilled and energetic system testers to work in our project teams.

This is a fast-paced environment, and we require enthusiastic, professional testers focused on delivering quality digital solutions. The successful applicants will have the opportunity to work on projects using leading edge technology and delivering great outcomes for our business partners.

Responsibilities may include:

  • Strategically aligning test efforts to the agreed deliverables and Business Requirements.
  • Effectively delivering testing objectives as part of an Agile multi-disciplinary team.
  • Contributing to planning activities with testing estimation at a program, increment and sprint level.
  • Working with the test manager or test leads to identify the scope of the testing required for releases based on the business outcomes and aligned to the department's testing frameworks
  • Producing test artefacts such as test plans, test cases and test summaries utilising test management tools
  • Working with analysts and developers to plan test activities for test case design, identify the testing effort required monitor progress and manage timeframes.
  • Recording and tracking test results and defects utilising test management tools.

Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission.

Essential Criteria

1. Demonstrated experience undertaking system/integration testing of large-scale systems, using manual and/or automated testing methods.

2. Demonstrated experience producing high quality testing artefacts, including test plans, test cases and test summaries and experience in the use of test management tools such as JIRA/Azure DevOps

3. Demonstrated knowledge of various software testing methodologies, types and test case design techniques

4. Demonstrated understanding of Testing principles such as Test Phases,Test reporting, Test Traceability, Defect Triage and the Defect Management Lifecycle

5. Experience working in an Agile software development environment and working in a multi-disciplinary project team

Desirable Criteria

1. Previous experience working on the Departments Employment and Workplace Relations IT systems or experience in a Government Agency

2. Experience working across the Microsoft technology stack, including D365, Azure services and SQL

3. Experience with automation testing frameworks and tools, including Selenium and SOAP UI

  Required Skills:

Testers Project Teams Analysts SOAP Selenium DevOps Test Cases Business Requirements Deliverables Software Development Government Developers Automation Integration JIRA SQL Software Testing Planning Design Business Management