Test Manager - Sydney, Australia - Reserve Bank of Australia

Reserve Bank of Australia

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Sydney, Australia

2 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Key Department leadership role
Develop your career in a collaborative & exciting agile environment.

Do you have strong leadership capabilities, coupled with change management and test management experience supporting critical business systems, strong critical thinking and communication skills, and enjoy working in a fast paced and challenging environment?

Be more - have an impact and make a difference.

About the Role

This role is part of the Business Services Group, Banking department.

Business Services Group is responsible for the provision of banking and payments services to Australian Government agencies, the provision of payment settlement services to Australian financial system participants through the Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System (RITS) and the Fast Settlement Service (FSS), the conduct of Exchange Settlement Accounts and the production and issuance of Australian banknotes.

Banking Department provides a range of banking services to Australian Government departments.

You will manage the testing activities and related to changes to the Banking Department's systems, while leading and developing individuals and teams to achieve goals and deliver RBA outcomes.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

Contribute to the broader strategic direction and leadership for Change Delivery in relation to Testing.
Ensure operational accountability in regard to people management, budget and processes for Testing.
Lead, guide and develop individuals and teams to effectively achieve area outcomes agreed by key stakeholders.
Enable and recognise workforce performance in a way that encourages continuous improvement.
Contribute to the improvement of policies, systems and processes for testing that enables the support of large and complex project activities.
Develop and maintain the implementation of test strategies, frameworks and practices to identify and respond to issues, risks and opportunities, maintaining key controls and ensuring appropriate processes are in place.
Manage internal and external relationships, communicating and collaborating effectively with key stakeholders to successfully deliver change.
Represent the Department on industry working groups.
Ensure that testing is properly planned, resourced, documented and scheduled, delivering high quality outcomes of system stability, integrity and reliability.
Develop and maintain testing-related documentation to support internal and external audit, and certifications.
Manage test automation to improve and evolve automated testing scripts and scope.
Generate test progress reports including statistics on completion rate, defects, fixes as required by stakeholders.
Manage internal and external relationships, communicating and collaborating effectively with key stakeholders to successfully deliver change.

Your background- Strong interpersonal skills to influence, collaborate and communicate strongly with key stakeholders across the Bank and externally.- Strong people leadership, coaching and mentoring skills to develop team members.- Significant experience in managing resourcing, scheduling, reporting and the different stages of a testing lifecycle.- Proven experience being accountable for the life cycle for all functional testing components of a project and/or program, and the ability to own all test artefacts produced.- Knowledge and experience working with Agile project methodology, as well as Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery processes, will be highly regarded.- Project Management and Testing qualifications/accreditations.- Experience with the Bank's government banking systems, business and operations/transactional banking, payments and settlements environments will be highly regarded.

Your Team

You will lead a team of Test Leads and Senior Test Analysts within the Change Delivery team who thrive on working collaboratively to deliver high quality outcomes.

As part of the leadership team, you will contribute to the broader strategic direction and leadership of the area, sharing accountability with other leaders for overall performance of deliverables and outcomes to meet the current and

future needs of the Bank.

Be More

Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility.

Your individual growth and success drives the Bank forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

Why RBA?_

Through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking, the RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy.

We also issue Australia's banknotes and operates infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.

Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people have a cr