Test Environment Practice Manager

• Opportunity to work with the 5th largest General Insurer in Australia.
• Open for Sydney candidates only - Remote/ Hybrid work flexibility
• Leadership role to develop the Automation strategy within Hollard.

About Hollard

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and a top 5 General Insurer in Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, and pet. Hollard’s unrelenting focus on diversity and inclusion, collaborative partnerships, and delivering great customer outcomes is at the heart of its business model, driven by its purpose of “Using our expertise, integrity and humanity to go further, together".

Your Team

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary technology team, that works closely with our customers (business, software vendors and partners). Within the team, you will be responsible for managing the development and implementation of test strategies that optimise the organisation's current testing environments for maintenance, enhancement and replacement of existing systems.

Your Role

Deliver end-to-end solutions covering all aspects of testing including functional and non-functional testing, system and integration, usability and user acceptance. Be a member of the team dealing with the testing lifecycle within an agile and waterfall development approach, including User Acceptance Testing and Operational Acceptance Testing

Your duties & responsibilities

• Overseeing the continual improvement of the testing service.
• Leading the delivery and implementation of consistent test methodologies, disciplines and processes using best practices across assigned lines of business.
• Responsibility for people management of all individuals assigned to the testing team including performance appraisals and personal development planning. 
• Periodic reporting of Test Environment status for all projects under management.
• Engaging external suppliers to meet Test Environments.
• Develop the overall Automation strategy across the enterprise and execution of Automation strategies at all levels.
• Ensuring the overall quality and functionality of software applications by combining various testing methodologies and techniques. 

Your knowledge and skills: 

• Minimum 10+ years of commercial IT experience, with at least 5 years’ experience in leadership capacity, coupled with relevant tertiary qualifications.
• Must have empathetic leadership ability with uncompromising focus on results.
• Strong Policy and Billing experience, Duck Creek experience is preferred.
• Extensive knowledge and demonstrated ability with testing analysis and execution for insurance applications.
• Good understanding of performance testing practices is required.
• Ability to understand data models, integration designs and work with developers and business analysts in the resolution of defects in a timely manner.

Working at Hollard

At Hollard you will be part of a supportive, valued and committed team. You will enjoy a challenging and rewarding work environment, career progression opportunities and great staff benefits and corporate discounts. We also offer many benefits to support your professional development and wellbeing including:

Professional and technical development opportunities

• Flexible start and finish times, work from home, and other flexible work from home options to suit your lifestyle.
• Additional leave options, including 5 well-being days each year.
• Generous employee insurance discounts
• Corporate employee discounts from various retailers
• Wellbeing benefits e.g., vaccinations, health insurance discounts, mental wellness training professional memberships, EAP

Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including as relate to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity). These enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone.

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance.

If you don’t meet all our expected criteria, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway! Our priority is to hire the most talented people we can from all walks of life even if not all our above boxes are ticked.

NO AGENCIES. We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies and kindly request that no unsolicited resumes are sent to Hollard employees in relation to this role or others. Only direct applications will be considered.

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