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As a reputable consulting, recruitment, and labour‑hire provider across the Northern Territory, Queensland and beyond, Moraitis Consulting (trading as Moraitis Engineering AU) stands as a trusted partner to Government and industry. We deliver strategic leadership and specialised talent that enable organisations to achieve their goals and drive sustainable success. Beyond recruitment and labour hire, Moraitis Consulting provides a comprehensive suite of ICT consulting services, including digital transformation, strategic advisory, business analysis, project management, cyber security, ICT policy development, and project administration.

These capabilities enable us to deliver superior outcomes for our clients and our people.

About the Opportunity

Our client is seeking an experienced Test Manager to lead test management and quality assurance across the Payroll Automation and Service Uplift Program.

The program is a technology-enabled business transformation initiative focused on improving the efficiency, reliability and experience of payroll and related services across 25,000 users. It includes multiple initiatives involving payroll automation, digital services, service experience improvements, platform modernisation and business process improvement.

You will establish and maintain a consistent, risk-based approach to testing and provide independent, evidence-based advice on solution quality and release readiness. You will coordinate testing across developers, testers, business analysts, subject matter experts, operational users, technical specialists and other assurance functions.

Job title: Test Manager – Payroll Automation and Service Uplift Program

Location: Darwin CBD, Northern Territory

Contract Term: 12 months, with potential to extend for a further 12 months

Working Arrangements: Office-based

Key Responsibilities

- Establish, maintain and continuously improve the program test strategy, governance framework, standards, templates, quality gates and reporting arrangements.
- Develop or assure initiative and release-level test approaches covering scope, test types,



responsibilities, environments, test data, traceability, entry and exit criteria, defect management and acceptance evidence.
- Coordinate testing across developers, testers, business analysts, subject matter experts, operational users, technical specialists and other assurance functions.
- Ensure requirements, business rules, solution changes and material risks are traceable to appropriate test coverage and evidence.
- Establish and manage a program-level regression approach, including reusable regression coverage and impact assessment.
- Oversee defect management, including severity and priority conventions, triage, ownership, retesting, closure evidence and reporting of unresolved defects and residual risk.
- Coordinate test setting and test data requirements and escalate risks affecting meaningful or timely testing.
- Ensure business acceptance is planned and evidence-based, with appropriate participation from Payroll Operations, business users and other affected groups.
- Provide independent reporting on test progress, coverage, defects, quality risks and release readiness.
- Assess test evidence and provide clear recommendations to program leadership and governance bodies on release readiness, unresolved defects, limitations and residual risks.
- Coordinate post-deployment verification and ensure material production issues are incorporated into regression coverage and future release planning.
- Support continuous improvement in testing maturity, including appropriate use of automation, reusable test assets, metrics, tools and professional testing practices.

Essential Skills and Experience

- Demonstrated experience leading testing and quality assurance for complex technology-enabled business change involving multiple systems, stakeholders,



releases or workstreams.
- Demonstrated ability to develop test strategies and risk-based test approaches covering functional, integration, end-to-end, regression and business acceptance testing.
- Strong understanding of test management disciplines, including planning, traceability, environments, test data, defect management, entry and exit criteria, evidence and release readiness.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating technical and business testing across developers, testers, analysts, subject matter experts and operational users.
- Strong analytical judgement and the ability to assess incomplete test evidence, defects, limitations and residual risks and provide clear advice to senior delivery and governance stakeholders.
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills, including concise test reporting and the ability to explain quality risks to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to work across iterative, sequential and hybrid delivery models and adapt test controls to the risk and scale of change.
- Demonstrated ability to improve testing practices, establish reusable assets and promote quality as a shared delivery responsibility.

Desirable Skills and Experience

- Experience testing payroll, HR, ERP, finance or other transaction-heavy enterprise systems where calculation accuracy and data integrity are critical.
- Experience with legacy/mainframe systems integrated with contemporary digital or middleware components.
- Experience using Jira or comparable work-management and defect-management tooling.
- Experience with automated regression testing and selecting appropriate candidates for automation.
- Relevant testing qualifications or certification, such as ISTQB, together with practical test leadership experience.
- Experience coordinating performance, security, accessibility or other specialist assurance activities.

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply by submitting their resume to ****@moraitisengineering.com.au.

For a confidential discussion, contact Moraitis Consulting on 61 (08) 8963 5***.

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