This pay rate is inclusive of mandatory 25% casual loading Excellent opportunity for a Senior Test Lead to join a busy, multi-year program of work Senior Test Lead | 12 12 month contract Role | Large Testing Team Based in Melbourne or Canberra | Onsite and WFH | No Remote Approx. $115-135/hour | Multi-year, Long-term Opportunity As the Senior Test Lead you will be leading and conducting testing activities across a range of projects. You will be working closely with the Test Manager to ensure test strategy and standards are in place. You will need to be a passionate, enthusiastic leader with excellent communication, stakeholder management skills. You will need to be an Australian Citizen to be eligible for this role. Key Duties and Responsibilities Manage test delivery with vendors and internal staff to ensure that across projects the delivery remain within scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets as defined with project teams. Test SME understanding the tools and leading management and other stakeholders to use them. Analyse and report on test activities and results, and escalating issues and risks to project management. Develop test plans, test cases and supporting test data and/or requirements, under own direction from the specifications. Assign execution test cases at various stages of testing. Contribute to team improvement initiatives and projects, including team tools, process changes, and test automation. Identify, manage and document defects, programming errors and operational characteristics that are inconsistent with stated requirements and design specifications. Manage testing for multiple projects. Accurately record time and effort for test case. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure effective and timely implementation of projects. Manage Defect Triages and meetings. Coordinate with business teams and supports them during UAT. Essential criteria Experience leading testing activities for complex programs and creating Test Summary reports. Agile testing experience with team member accountability to commitment and delivery each sprint. Extensive experience using test management tools including Jira Xray and CRM, specifically Salesforce. Analytical skills and problem-solving skills needed to manage multiple factors on a project simultaneously. Strong team-work skills across business, vendors and geographically dispersed virtual teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships and facilitate innovation and new ways of working with teams. Desirable criteria Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). Demonstrated experience working for large organisations on complex software deployments. Other relevant experience in a related technical field (application development, Database development, deployment/implementation and infrastructure). Comfortable with new ways of thinking about accessibility and enthusiastic about accessible design & development will be highly regarded. Like to know more? To submit your application, please apply online using the appropriate link below. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Brett Elliott via email brett.elliotthudson.com quoting Ref No. 243910.