Job Description

EL1 Quality Assurance Engineer, Data Standards Body

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

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Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Key Duties

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- Design, maintain and execute automated and manual test suites to validate standards changes, reference implementations and other artefacts.
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- Develop test strategies, regression frameworks and data‐driven test harnesses using modern automation tooling to align testing activities with DSB's strategic objectives.
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- Assess and ensure quality of standards‐related artefacts and documentation beyond platforms, tools or code.
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- 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.
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- Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, documentation and overall governance of the standards development and delivery service.
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- Support planning, estimation and continuous improvement initiatives across the DSB.
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Additional Responsibilities

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

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- Industry experience establishing or maturing QA frameworks, governance or quality gates using Agile quality‐assurance methodologies (Shift‐left testing, Risk‐based testing, BDD etc).
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- Substantial experience in quality assurance and testing for software, APIs or digital services, including designing and executing test strategies.
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- Practical experience with automation testing (particularly at the API or integration level) and familiarity with modern testing tools and scripting.
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- Experience deriving test cases and coverage from requirements or specifications (e.g. standards, schemas, designs) and thinking through edge cases to ensure comprehensive coverage.
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- Experience producing and maintaining clear test documentation (test plans, test cases, regression suites, defect reports) and ensuring traceability between requirements and tests.
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- Strong 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.
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- Robust written and verbal communication and collaboration skills to translate complex technical requirements and explain findings, risks and recommendations to technical and non‐technical stakeholders.
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- Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary, cross‐functional environment and manage competing priorities.
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- Comfortable working in a complex, regulatory environment.
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Preferred Experience

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

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- Seniority level: Not applicable
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- Employment type: Full‐time
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- Job function: Quality Assurance and Engineering
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- Industries: Government Administration
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📌 Quality Assurance Engineer, Data Standards Body (Victoria)
🏢 Commonwealth Treasury
📍 Victoria