Position Overview

- Permanent, Full time Opportunity
- True hybrid working - work from home and our Mitcham office
- $162,733 per annum inclusive of 12% superannuation

About Us

We're on a mission to create a brighter future, where you can be a change maker at the actual source. We're one of Australia's largest water utilities with over 30% of Victoria's population relying on us for their essential water and sanitation services.

Our award-winning culture fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible environment that enables our people to thrive. Here, you'll be inspired and challenged to grow alongside us.

We're committed to reconciliation and supporting the self-determined role for Traditional Owners/Custodians in water and land management.

The Role

As a Test Lead, you will lead and coordinate testing across the project lifecycle, ensuring quality, security and reliability are maintained through to release.

You'll work closely with developers, business stakeholders and delivery partners to identify and resolve defects, oversee System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing, and drive improvements in test automation.

You'll also provide guidance and mentoring to the testing team, helping deliver high-quality solutions that meet business and project objectives.

Your Key Responsibilities

- Planning & Strategy - lead the shift to automation-first testing and embed quality across the SDLC, including shift-left, CI/CD, performance testing and emerging AI-driven testing practices
- Test Lifecycle Ownership - own and govern end-to-end testing lifecycle across SIT, API, regression and UAT, with clear quality standards, traceability and sign-off
- Test Execution & UAT - lead UAT execution, drive effective defect management and quality gates and ensure teams are ready for successful go-live
- Team Enablement & Capability Building - coach and mentor testers, build automation skills, and drive consistent testing practices across the Division




- Enterprise Influence & Vendor Engagement - influence quality outcome across business and technology teams and manage vendors to deliver effective, high-quality testing outcomes

What we're Looking for

- Test automation strategy, frameworks, governance, and adoption.
- Hands-on experience with Karate, Gatling, JMeter, Opkey, Selenium, Postman, and SoapUI.
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Docker, and Confluence.
- Strong knowledge of SDLC, Solution Architecture, and Quality Engineering practices, including Shift-left, TDD, and BDD.
- Experience across functional, regression, integration, API, performance, security, and mobile testing.
- Experience with Salesforce testing and enterprise system integrations.
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across teams and technical domains.
- Experience working in Agile delivery and operations environments.
- Coaching and mentoring teams to build test automation capability and quality practices.
- ISTQB or equivalent testing certification - mandatory.

To view the full position description, click HERE.

Why Yarra Valley Water?
We celebrate and encourage new thinking at every level. Creating opportunities for you to grow - both professionally, and personally. When you flourish, we all do.

- $162,733 per annum inclusive of 12% superannuation
- Flexible working arrangements where our people are empowered to design their days with their team. Read our hybrid playbook HERE.
- Free and secure in office parking with on-site café at our Mitcham office.
- 16 weeks paid parental leave.
- 15 days paid personal leave, which can be used for caring, illness,



wellbeing and mental health needs.
- 5 days paid reproductive leave which can be used for experiencing symptoms or undergoing procedures associated with issues such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, PCOS, prostate health, or IVF.
- Request to swap certain public holidays for another day of paid leave.

To read more about our benefits and culture, read our employee handbook HERE.

Did you Know?

Research shows that men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalised people tend to only apply when they meet all of them. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily tick every box, please apply or get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

How to Apply

Applications should include a supporting Cover Letter and Resume.

Closing date: Monday, 21st September 2026

This position is available for Yarra Valley Water employees and external applicants.

We welcome applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people of all cultural backgrounds.

If you need this information in an accessible format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please call 03 •••• •599 or email ••••@yvw.com.au.

If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss the recruitment process, please contact us via email ••••@yvw.com.au.

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks, if required for the position. This may also include a Police Check or AusCheck, where an offer will be subject to a satisfactory outcome of these checks.

Yarra Valley Water is recognised by Australian Disability Network as a Disability Confident Recruiter employer.

📌 Test Lead (Mitcham)
🏢 Yarra Valley Water
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