Test Manager / Test Automation Engineer

About the Opportunity

DXC Technology is pursuing a large-scale Government Data & Analytics Transformation program, commencing with a discovery and architecture definition phase before progressing into implementation.

The program will assess and define a future-state solution to support secure data ingestion and integration across Government, rules and analytics, explainable AI, workflow automation and human-led decision-making across classified LOW and HIGH environments.

We are seeking experienced Test Managers and Test Automation Engineers to support the quality assurance and testing activities across the program.

Depending on experience, successful candidates may lead the overall testing strategy, governance and delivery, or take a hands-on role designing, developing and implementing automated testing frameworks and solutions.

This is an opportunity to contribute to a complex, enterprise-scale Government transformation, ensuring that solutions are fit for purpose, secure, reliable and ready for implementation.

Key Responsibilities

Test Management & Strategy

• Develop and manage the overall testing strategy, approach and framework across the program.
• Establish testing standards, processes, governance and quality assurance practices.
• Define test plans, scope, objectives, entry and exit criteria, and acceptance requirements.
• Coordinate testing activities across multiple workstreams, delivery teams and technology platforms.
• Manage test schedules, resources, dependencies, risks and delivery milestones.
• Oversee functional, integration, system, regression, performance, security and user acceptance testing.
• Ensure requirements are appropriately mapped to test cases and that testing provides adequate coverage.
• Monitor test progress, defect trends, quality metrics and readiness for release.
• Coordinate defect management, prioritisation, resolution and retesting.
• Provide testing status reports and quality assurance updates to program leadership and stakeholders.
• Work closely with business analysts, architects, engineers, security specialists and project teams to embed quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Test Automation Engineering

• Design, develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and solutions.
• Build automated test scripts for functional, integration, regression and API testing.
• Identify opportunities to automate repeatable testing activities and improve testing efficiency.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows where appropriate.
• Develop and maintain test data, test environments and reusable testing components.
• Validate data ingestion, transformation, processing, integration and analytics outputs.
• Support performance, reliability and scalability testing of enterprise data platforms and applications.
• Investigate test failures, troubleshoot issues and work with engineering teams to resolve defects.
• Collaborate with developers and technical leads to embed test automation and quality engineering practices into solution design and development.
• Maintain test documentation, automation scripts, results and supporting artefacts.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Demonstrated experience in Test Management, Test Automation Engineering, Quality Engineering or a similar role.
• Experience working across complex enterprise technology, digital transformation or data and analytics programs.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, frameworks and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience designing and executing test strategies, plans, cases and procedures.
• Demonstrated experience in functional, integration, regression and system testing.
• Experience with defect management, test reporting and quality assurance processes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work across technical and business teams.
• Ability to work in complex delivery environments with multiple workstreams, dependencies and competing priorities.

Additional Technical Experience – Test Automation

For candidates targeting the Test Automation Engineer profile, experience in the following areas will be highly regarded:

• Developing automated testing frameworks using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Robot Framework or similar.
• API and integration testing using tools such as Postman, REST Assured or similar.
• Programming or scripting experience in Python, Java, JavaScript or other relevant languages.
• CI/CD pipeline integration and automated quality gates.
• Performance and load testing using tools such as JMeter, Gatling or similar.
• Testing data pipelines, data transformations, database integrations and analytics outputs.
• SQL and data validation techniques.

Desirable Experience

• Experience delivering testing across Australian Government, Defence or National Security programs.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake or Palantir Foundry.
• Exposure to workflow and business process platforms such as Pega or Appian.
• Experience testing AI-enabled solutions, analytics, rules engines or decision-support systems.
• Understanding of data quality, data integrity, lineage and validation.
• Experience with cloud, hybrid, on-premises or air-gapped technology environments.
• Exposure to security testing, vulnerability testing or testing within classified environments.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, DevOps or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Relevant ISTQB certification or other recognised testing qualifications.

Location & Engagement

• Canberra-based roles, with on-site attendance preferred during the initial discovery and architecture definition phase.
• Technical LOW elements (PROTECTED) may also open opportunities in Zone 2 facilities in Sydney and Adelaide, subject to project requirements.
• Client-facing and business engagement roles are expected to be Canberra-based.
• Permanent and contracting opportunities may be considered.
• Security clearance requirements will be subject to project requirements and access to the relevant environment.
• The successful candidate will hold an active NV2 clearance with a preference for TSPV.