The role is responsible for planning, designing, coordinating and executing testing activities for the Strategic Performance and Risk Overview (SPARO) application and ensures that application enhancements, data integrations, SAP ERP data sources, analytical products and platform changes are tested effectively and meet functional, technical, performance and business requirements prior to release.

The role is responsible for assuring the quality of SPARO's decision-support capabilities, including logistics, sustainment, readiness and organisational reporting functions, and validating the integrity of data migrated from legacy systems and SAP ERP data sources.

Under direction of the Commonwealth, undertake the following duties:

Test Planning and Test Management
• Support Test Manager in developing and maintaining test strategies, test plans, test schedules and test artefacts supporting SPARO releases and enhancements.
• Define testing scope, objectives, acceptance criteria and coverage requirements in collaboration with delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Estimate testing activities and support release planning and sprint delivery activities.
• Monitor testing progress and provide timely reporting on quality, coverage, risks and defects.
• Support continuous improvement of testing processes, standards and quality assurance practices.

Functional and System Testing
• Support Test Manager with design, preparation and execution of functional, system, integration and regression test cases.
• Verify that SPARO functionality meets documented business, technical and operational requirements.
• Validate business rules, calculations, data visualisations, reporting outputs and decision-support capabilities.




• Assess the impact of changes and ensure existing functionality is not adversely affected by recent releases.
• Support testing across web applications, APIs, data services and integrated platforms.

Defect Management and Quality Assurance
• Identify, document, prioritise and track defects throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Perform root-cause analysis to support resolution of defects and quality issues.
• Collaborate with development and data engineering teams to validate defect fixes and remediation activities.
• Assess risks associated with unresolved defects and provide recommendations to support release decisions.
• Ensure testing outcomes are appropriately documented and auditable.

Agile Delivery and Stakeholder Engagement
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Test Manager, Product Owner, Business Analysts and Technical Data Analysts to refine requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Provide testing expertise and quality-related advice to delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and business validation activities.
• Contribute to release readiness assessments and deployment activities.

Test Automation and Continuous Improvement
• Support Test Manager with implementation and maintenance of automated testing capabilities where appropriate.




• Contribute to Dev SecOps and CI/CD practices by integrating testing into delivery pipelines.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency, coverage and quality assurance outcomes.
• Assist in developing reusable test assets, test data and automation frameworks.
• Promote quality-first practices across the SPARO delivery team.

RequirementsMinimum five years’ experience with
• Software testing and quality assurance within ICT delivery environments.
• Developing and executing test plans, test cases and test scripts.
• Functional, system, integration and regression testing.
• Defect management and test reporting.
• Testing web applications, APIs and data-driven systems.
• Working within Agile Scrum or Dev SecOps delivery environments.
• Analysing requirements and developing comprehensive test coverage.
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration with technical delivery teams.

Desirable
• Experience testing analytical, reporting or decision-support applications.
• Working knowledge of data manipulation and reporting languages such as SQL, Python.
• Working knowledge of Java Script or Type Script, with the ability to read code and design test cases.
• Experience validating complex data integrations, ETL/ELT pipelines and enterprise data services.
• Experience supporting SAP ERP implementations or data migration programs.
• Knowledge of logistics, supply chain, sustainment, inventory management or Defence business processes.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and test automation tools.
• Understanding of data warehouse, Data Vault, dimensional modelling or Data Mesh environments.
• Experience in Defence, Government or large enterprise environments or enterprise level decision support systems.

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