Senior Test Analyst

At Hays Enterprise Solutions, our mission is to help organisations thrive by supporting their workforce needs. We partner with over thirty large organisations across Australia and New Zealand providing tailored solutions to ensure our clients have unrivalled access to top talent and unique market insights to build their evolving workforces.

This is a six-month contractual role with a potential for extension.

What you’ll contribute to

The Senior Test Analyst will lead a team of Test Analysts for the Next Gen Program. The role is intended to plan testing in a waterfall-agile hybrid environment, co-ordinate with internal and external teams, create and track to schedules, execute tests and report on progress to stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of software development life cycles, testing methodologies, and the ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead and manage the testing efforts for Connected Solutions in the NextGen program.
• Design, develop, and execute test approaches to validate software functionality and performance.
• Collaborate with developers, stakeholders, and business partners to understand requirements and identify potential issues. 
• Mentor and lead a team of Test Analysts, providing guidance and support on testing best practices.
• Report and track project status, risks, and issues, and provide regular updates to project stakeholders.
• Stay current with industry trends and new testing techniques to continuously improve testing processes.
• Participate in cross-functional team meetings to provide status updates and identify areas for improvement.

How you’ll make an impact                                           

• Attend sprint planning meetings and discuss testing issues. 
• Take personal responsibility to lead the testing effort for the Connected Solutions team within the NextGen Program. 
• Work collaboratively to bring Quality to the fore. 
• Build relationships and liaise with wider test teams and business stakeholders. 
• Drive the prioritisation of testing activities. 
• Ability to develop the test approach’s as required. 
• Ability to plan and agree test schedules with multiple dependencies, with multiple teams. 
• Ability to produce insightful reporting on test progress, risks, and issues. 
• Ability to run defect triages successfully. 
• Ability to suggest mitigations to remove blockers and delays, escalating where required. 

Technical Skills: 

• Experience of using Jira to track tests and create reporting. 
• Experience with complex multi-level customer-facing solutions 
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, Web services and TLS. 
• Experience with Postman or similar testing tools. 
• Exposure to IoT, Telemetry and gRPC is preferred but not mandatory.