Program Test Lead

We're seeking an experienced Program Test Lead to drive end to end testing and quality assurance for a large scale enterprise transformation program. This is a greenfield cloud migration involving the replacement of a business critical legacy platform with modern AWS hosted, event driven architecture. You will take ownership of the program's testing strategy, governance, quality gates, vendor assurance, data migration validation and go-live readiness across multiple delivery streams.

Key Responsibilities

- Own and execute the overall test strategy and master test plan.
- Lead testing across functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, UAT and non-functional domains.
- Establish and manage quality gates, defect management processes and test governance frameworks.
- Drive complex data migration and reconciliation testing between legacy and new platforms.
- Coordinate testing activities across vendors, internal stakeholders and external integration partners.
- Oversee release readiness, cutover planning and production verification activities.
- Manage test reporting, risk management and executive-level quality communications.
- Support the implementation of test automation frameworks and AI enabled testing practices.

Technical Environment

- AWS (Fargate, SQS, SNS)
- Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
- API integrations (REST, SOAP, GraphQL)
- Kong API Gateway
- Playwright / TypeScript
- Jira & Xray
- CI/CD Pipelines




- Performance and Security Testing frameworks

Must Have Experience

- 10+ years' experience in software testing and quality assurance.
- Proven background leading testing functions for large-scale transformation or legacy modernisation programs.
- Robust experience managing vendors, systems integrators and multi stream delivery environments.
- Deep expertise in integration testing, data migration testing and complex enterprise ecosystems.
- Exposure to AWS hosted platforms and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with test automation practices and CI/CD delivery models.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to provide executive-level quality reporting and Go/No-Go recommendations.
- Hands-on experience with Jira/Xray or similar test management tools.

Desirable Experience

- Large scale regulatory, supply chain, logistics or highly integrated enterprise platforms.
- AI assisted testing, agentic QA frameworks or modern test automation approaches.
- ISTQB Test Manager, ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst or equivalent certifications.

This is a great opportunity to lead the testing strategy for a high profile transformation program delivering a modern cloud native platform. You'll work across multiple stakeholder groups, complex integrations and large scale data migration activities while influencing critical delivery and production readiness decisions.

📌 Program Test Lead (Sydney)
🏢 Opus Recruitment Solutions
📍 Sydney