APS5 Test Analyst

Australian Citizens residing in Australia only respond.

Overview:

• The Data and Analytics Branch supports the Agency by providing high quality data and reporting, translating insights into measurable business performance improvements. They are a centralized team focusing on future process improvement, delivering data and reporting effectively with clear accountabilities, while building data literacy capability across the branch and regions.
• The team develops, governs, and maintains an enterprise data warehouse as well as the NDIAs reporting platforms and production content. They design and build Business Intelligence (BI) interventions and prototype analytic solutions and reports, identifying trends and drivers of performance.

Duties

• Develops Test Plan in line with the (1) Test Strategy, (2) project release plan and (3) delivery methodology
• Develops Test Cases traced to requirements and design documents, including detailed test steps, data requirements, pre-requisites and success criteria
• Conduct functional testing based on documented Test Cases
• Supports and assists testers to execute testing against Test Cases
• Authors test plans, test summary reports necessary as required and test progress reports
• Provides a daily and weekly status report for testing activities
• Coordinates with Application Developers, Business Analysts, Test Analysts, SMEs, 3rd party vendors to review test artefacts and defects to ensure rapid review and resolution of documents and defects
• Facilitates defect triage meetings

Skills and Experience:

• Experience as a Test Lead or Snr Test Analyst on a Cloud Data Lake or Data Warehouse
• implementation
• Experience reconciling large datasets to confirm source to target reconciliation, explaining any differences identified
• Expert with JIRA, Confluence and contemporary testing tools (e.g. X-Ray)
• Highly data literate with an in-built curiosity to explore and understand data
• Ability to query datasets using intermediate to advanced SQL skills, and other common scripting
• languages
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal

Skills and Personal Attributes

Contemporary attitude to disability

• Positive contemporary attitudes to people with disability
• Understanding and knowledge of disability, and its impact on individuals
• Experience with supporting people with a disability to maximise participation in the community.

Systems

• High level of competency in designing and consistently applying assessment tools
• Competency with IT systems (including Microsoft Excel, Project and visual design tools)
• Well versed in using JIRA as a project management and defect management tool
• Communication
• Adaptable communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience in building relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Collaboration

• Ability to work within and across teams and adapt quickly to a changing environment
• Sound experience in stakeholder engagement, communications and if required, providing
• training/demo on best test practices and use of test tools to business end-users.

Service Orientation

• Commitment to achieving positive outcomes for NDIS participants and the Scheme
• Ability to respond to and prioritise competing and often urgent requests in a calm and efficient
• manner while also maintaining high work standards and accuracy
• Ability to manage confidential and sensitive information
• Ability to synthesise and analyse complex information and make decisions

Address each selection criteria:

1. Experience as a Test Lead or Snr Test Analyst on a Cloud Data Lake or Data Warehouse implementation

2. Experience reconciling large datasets to confirm source to target reconciliation, explaining any differences identified

3. Expert with JIRA, Confluence and contemporary testing tools (e.g. X-Ray)

4. Highly data literate with an in-built curiosity to explore and understand data

5. Ability to query datasets using intermediate to advanced SQL skills, and other common scripting languages

6. Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal