EL1 Quality Assurance Engineer, Data Standards Body

Role at Commonwealth Treasury within the Data Standards Body (DSB) to deliver high quality regulatory standards across government.

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Key Duties

- Design, maintain and execute automated and manual test suites to validate standards changes, reference implementations and other artefacts.
- Develop test strategies, regression frameworks and data‑driven test harnesses using modern automation tooling to align testing activities with DSB’s strategic objectives.
- Assess and ensure quality of standards‑related artefacts and documentation beyond platforms, tools or code.
- Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, engineers, analysts and implementation‑support teams to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, support change impact analysis and embed quality assurance best‑practices throughout standards delivery.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, documentation and overall governance of the standards development and delivery service.
- Support planning, estimation and continuous improvement initiatives across the DSB.

Additional Responsibilities

- Define repeatable test cases, validation/acceptance criteria and non‑functional testing approaches.
- Ensure traceability between standards requirements and test coverage.
- Identify quality risks, inconsistencies, defects and gaps in standards.
- Support continuous integration of automated tests.

Desirable Qualifications / Experience

- Industry experience establishing or maturing QA frameworks, governance or quality gates using Agile quality‑assurance methodologies (Shift‑left testing, Risk‑based testing, BDD etc).
- Substantial experience in quality assurance and testing for software, APIs or digital services, including designing and executing test strategies.




- Practical experience with automation testing (particularly at the API or integration level) and familiarity with modern testing tools and scripting.
- Experience deriving test cases and coverage from requirements or specifications (e.g. standards, schemas, designs) and thinking through edge cases to ensure comprehensive coverage.
- Experience producing and maintaining clear test documentation (test plans, test cases, regression suites, defect reports) and ensuring traceability between requirements and tests.
- Solid analytical and problem‑solving skills to validate requirements defined as flows, claims and behavioural rules as well as API Schemas, with particular attention to accuracy, reliability and consistency.
- Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills to translate complex technical requirements and explain findings, risks and recommendations to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary, cross‑functional environment and manage competing priorities.
- Comfortable working in a complex, regulatory environment.

Preferred Experience

- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines or test infrastructure (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS/Azure Pipelines).
- Experience designing or maintaining test harnesses for conformance or compliance testing within regulated ecosystems.
- Experience testing standards‑based systems using protocols such as OpenID Connect, OAuth2 or similar.
- Experience working with artefacts such as OpenAPI Specifications, JSON Schema, conformance suites or similar.
- Experience or familiarity with Digital ID, CDR or similar identity and data‑sharing ecosystems or regulatory domains.
- Interest in digital regulation, technical standards and implementation support for industry.

Employment Details

- Seniority level: Not applicable
- Employment type: Full‑time
- Job function: Quality Assurance and Engineering
- Industries: Government Administration

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📌 Quality Assurance Engineer, Data Standards Body (Melbourne)
🏢 Commonwealth Treasury
📍 Melbourne