Testing and Quality Assurance

**Job no**: 0054180
**Location**: Parkville/WFH - Hybrid work arrangement
**Role type**:Full time, Continuing
**Department/School**:Business Services
**Salary**:UOM 9 - $129,154 - $143,374 p.a. plus 17% super
- Drive cultural change - Use your energy and enthusiasm to lead by example
- Continuous improvement mindset - We value your ideas
- Career growth - Join a dynamic, high performing team at Australia’s leading University

The University of Melbourne would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campuses are situated, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Peoples, the Yorta Yorta Nation, the Dja Dja Wurrung People. We acknowledge that the land on which we meet and learn was the place of age-old ceremonies, of celebration, initiation and renewal, and that the local Aboriginal Peoples have had and continue to have a unique role in the life of these lands.

**About Business Services**
Business Services provides a full range of class leading information technology, facilities management, finance, HR and health and safety services to all operating entities of the University.

Within Business Services IT, the Strategy, Innovation and Assurance (SIA) team provides leadership of cross-functional IT management across Business Services, and the University, ensuring ‘we do the right work’ through strategy and innovation and ‘do the work right’ through governance, organizational and operational model development and performance management. SIA is responsible for functions such as IT strategy, enterprise architecture, innovation incubation, governance, technology partner management, performance management and the definition of IT ways of working

**About the Role**
The purpose of the position is to lead the improvement and assurance oversight of the Testing & Quality Assurance (TQA) practice within Business Services IT (BSIT). You will lead the implementation of an endorsed Enterprise Testing Strategy, with associated roadmaps and initiatives (covering all relevant test types and methodologies including automation). You will also manage a small team of test automation specialists implementing the test automation aspects of the test strategy.

Daily responsibilities will see you:

- Implement the approved overarching Enterprise Testing Strategy, with associated roadmaps and implementation approaches.
- Lead the establishment and improvement of testing standards, frameworks and methodologies, processes, practices, guidelines, tools, and templates
- Monitor and report on the adherence to and compliance with established testing standards and framework
- Manage a team of specialist technical test resources in terms of their project and operational testing activities, and achievement of test strategy, test roadmap, and professional development priorities and objectives
- Lead the Business Services IT TQA Community of Practice (CoP)
- Lead the management of test related vendors and associated enterprise level contracts (includes vendors providing testing contractors and testing tools used across Business Services IT)

**About You**
You will be a highly motivated individual, with initiative, a professional approach and excellent communication skills. You'll demonstrate evidence of adaptive leadership approaches when collaborating with various teams and support a high performing culture and where customer focus and continuous improvement are the core values.

Ideally, you will also have:

- Tertiary/professional industry qualifications in Testing & Quality Assurance best practices with relevant IT experience, or an equivalent combination of relevant IT education/training and experience
- Be practised in developing and documenting processes and procedures (producing templates, process flows, visualizations, etc)
- Have a sound understanding of common IT management frameworks, methodologies, practices
- Knowledge and experience in ITSM, Agile, and DevOps methodologies

**About the University**
The University of Melbourne is consistently ranked amongst the leading universities in the world. We are proud of our people, our commitment to research and teaching excellence, and our global engagement.

**Benefits of Working with Us**
In addition to having the opportunity to grow and be challenged, and to be part of a vibrant campus life, our people enjoy a range of rewarding benefits:

- Flexible working arrangements, generous personal, parental and cultural leave
- Competitive remuneration, 17% super, salary packaging and leave loading
- Free and subsidised health and wellbeing services, and access to fitness and cultural clubs
- Discounts on a wide range of products and services including Myki cards and Qantas Club
- Career development opportunities and 25% off graduate courses for staff and their immediate families

**Be Yourself**
We value the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community and encourage and celebrate diversity. First