Senior Test Analyst

Must be Australian Citizen with a minimum baseline security clearance

The Senior Test Analyst will work as part of small team under limited direction, defining, developing, applying, and assessing tests to analyse new and existing applications and systems. They require extensive analytical skills and an ability to think outside the box.

For this role, it is essential that you to establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders while developing and maintaining a view of the enterprise's testing services:

• Must have the willingness to be fully hands on.
• Collaborate with team members to work toward common goals.
• Be a competent communicator.
• Build and contribute to a highly productive work environment.
• Exemplify a high level of personal integrity, honesty, and professional competence.
• Ensure that project work is delivered with the intended results. When project work finishes, ensure appropriate closure, including delivering relevant reports.
• Show initiative, flexibility and resourcefulness.
• Plan work and allocate time according to emerging priorities, while adopting a flexible approach to changing priorities and escalating issues as required.
• Apply appropriate recordkeeping and documentation procedures.
• Show attention to detail.
• Have a good knowledge and understanding of various platforms, tools and systems

Essential

• Australian Citizenship, minimum Baseline Clearance.
• Conduct and lead the planning of test artefacts using appropriate tools, not limited to Test Estimation, Test Schedule, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Execution Reports, Defect Reports, and Test Summary Reports
• Willingness to participate in testing activities, such as scripting, execution, reviews, defect, matrix, etc
• Demonstrate extensive analytical skills. This includes reviewing project documents with a demonstrated ability to analyse highly-complex systems and interdependencies, identify critical integration points, and identify inconsistencies and contraditions, ambiguity, and gaps in functional documents.
• Provide clear and concise review comments on test artefacts, ensuring that comments are accurate and meet the section's standards.
• Create, execute, and report high-quality test artefacts such as a project's test matrix, as well as its test cases, defects, and complex test data, ensuring they adhere to section standards and guidelines.
• Raise defects and monitor defect queues for yourself and peers, advising when queues are not actioned promptly, as per section guidelines.
• Coach, mentor, and provide on-the-job training to Junior, Trainee, and Test Analyst staff.
• Assist in identifying knowledge and skills gaps in individuals, then help develop and implement plans to remedy them.
• Provide recommendations for financial planning and budgeting within the project. Using sound judgement, collate and provide an analysis of financial data and reports to facilitate decision making.
• Tailor your communication (both written and verbal) to meet the needs of particular audiences.
• Demonstrate ethical behaviour and integrity.
• Contribute to the enhancement of team culture and a positive workplace.
• Actively participate in or facilittae meetings for internal testing operations and external workshops.
• Adapt easily to changes, demonstrating the application of sound judgement.
• Initiate, build and maintain stakeholder relationships across the ICT division, with the business, and with operational areas, both internally and externally.
• Establish and maintain professional networks to support portfolio and project outcomes.

Desirable skill set

• Microsoft D365 testing experience (highly considered).
• Azure DevOps experience including Test Plan module (highly considered).
• AI MS CoPilot and Large language Model (LLM) experience (highly considered).
• Functional and Integration API testing
• Microsoft Fabric experience
• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) foundation level qualification or equivalent

Why Work for Us?

Joining Akkodis means being part of a dynamic community of engineers that's at the forefront of tech innovation. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.

Whether your interests lie in systems engineering, software development, data platforms or any other tech discipline, we have a role that will suit you. You'll get to collaborate with talented expert colleagues from around the world who share your enthusiasm and passion for technology. We offer a flexible and supportive work environment, and we're committed to helping you grow and achieve your career goals. If you want to make a real difference, Akkodis is the place for you.

Akkodis is a commercial brand under which both AKKA and Modis entities operate.

"Akkodis is an Equal Opportunity employer, committed to all forms of workforce inclusion. We actively invite and encourage applications by candidates from diverse backgrounds".