Test Analyst

Acknowledgement of Country

CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. View our vision towards reconciliation.

Role highlights

• Support cutting-edge science through high-quality digital solutions
• Join a collaborative agile team delivering impactful enterprise applications
• Influence quality, innovation and user experience across CSIRO

About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of enhanced functional, regression, and performance test standards that can be re-used within the team.
• Develop, plan, coordinate, document, and implement quality assurance of the products that the team supports, including conducting functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Document and execute test plans and acceptance criteria using TestRail, Jira, or similar test management tools.
• Work with business areas and technical teams to design, document, and execute risk based test plans.
• Communicate all identified risks and issues to your project Test Manager or Project Manager and contribute to the continuous delivery implementation.
• Provide technical advice that is aligned with overall solution designs, architecture, and frameworks.
• Respond to production issues and routine maintenance activities as required.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in testing software applications coupled with relevant tertiary qualifications in IT and equivalent relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in testing analysis techniques, processes and methodologies.
• Extensive experience in testing with experience in all aspects of testing, including functional, system integration and regression as a sole testing resource as well as working within a team.
• Demonstrated experience working in and/or exposure to an Agile Scrum development environment.
• Excellent communication skills, including an ability to work collaboratively across multi disciplinary project teams and communicate with staff and clients at all levels.
• Experience in backlog refinement, sprint review, retrospective and planning ceremonies.
• 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.
• Integrations and interfaces with external systems e.g. REST web services.
• Knowledge/ hands on experience with NFT tools.

Location and office arrangements

Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide.

Salary

AU$100,103 - AU$113,251 per annum (pro rata for part time), plus 15.4% superannuation.

Reference

103501

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 and let us know how we can support you.

Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements

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 Gold 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 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

CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our Child Safe Policy.

How to apply

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.