Senior Test Analyst

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

Essential criteria

• Extensive Testing and Quality Assurance Experience: Demonstrated extensive experience (minimum 12 years) in software testing and quality assurance, supported by relevant tertiary qualifications in Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.
• Advanced Testing Leadership and Delivery Management: Demonstrated ability to lead and manage end-to-end testing activities across complex projects, including functional, system integration, regression, release, and user acceptance testing, ensuring high-quality and reliable software outcomes.
• Strategic Test Planning and Risk Management: Proven experience developing, maintaining, and communicating test strategies, test plans, schedules, quality objectives, and risk-based testing approaches that align with organisational priorities and support informed release decisions.
• Quality Engineering and Test Automation Expertise: Demonstrated experience defining and implementing test automation strategies, continuous testing practices, and quality engineering improvements, with the ability to influence technical direction and improve delivery efficiency, coverage, and product quality.
• Agile Delivery and Scrum Experience: Extensive experience working within Agile delivery environments, including active participation and leadership in backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Influencing Skills: Highly developed communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence quality outcomes across multidisciplinary teams, including Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, Infrastructure Teams, executive stakeholders, and business representatives.
• Reporting, Analysis and Release Readiness Assessment: Proven ability to prepare and present comprehensive test reports, quality assessments, risk analyses, and release-readiness recommendations, providing evidence-based advice to support organisational decision-making.
• People Leadership, Mentoring and Capability Development: Demonstrated experience mentoring, coaching, and developing testing professionals, fostering capability uplift, knowledge sharing, and high-performing teams.
• Continuous Improvement and Innovation: Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives, promote testing best practices, and identify innovative approaches that enhance testing effectiveness, team capability, and delivery outcomes.
• Independence, Leadership and Strategic Contribution: Proven ability to operate with a high degree of independence, exercise sound judgement, and provide leadership that contributes to the achievement of organisational, strategic, and operational objectives.

Experience testing both front-end and back-end web application systems with

• A focus on discovery and access of research data;
• high throughput requirements for relational & file-based data processing.
• significant data scale/magnitude (i.e. Terabytes, Petabytes).
• a focus on discovery and access of research data.
• Integrations and interfaces with external systems e.g. REST web services
• Knowledge/ hands-on experience with NFT tools

For full details about this role, and other criteria, please review the Position Description .

Not sure if you meet all the criteria?

While it is CSIRO policy that the successful candidate must meet all the essential criteria, there are many ways to demonstrate this.

Don’t let the list discourage you.

If you are unsure about applying, please reach out to the contact person in the Position Description.

Setting you up for success

We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible to everyone.

We recognise that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation.

Please contact Careers.online@csiro.au and let us know how we can support you.

Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO , offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.

We can discuss flexible work arrangements with you during the recruitment process.

CSIRO also offers a range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities.

To find out more, visit Careers at CSIRO .

Inclusion and belonging

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences.

We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes.

As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong.

We recognise true diversity encompasses all ages, abilities, cultures, faiths, levels of education, genders, sexualities, diversity of thought and much more.

We focus on hiring people who share our values of People First, Further Together, Making it Real and Trusted.

CSIRO holds Platinum Status for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and a Science in Australia Gender Equity Bronze Award.

This is a security assessed position, applications for this position are open to Australian Citizens only with the successful candidate being required to be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the Negative Vetting 1 level.

Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Child safety

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View our Child Safe Policy .

Please apply online and submit a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) and CV that demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the essential requirements of this role.

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