Test Manager

1 week ago


Abbotsford, Australia Local Peoples Full time

Location: Australia_

Local Peoples is taking expressions of interest for an upcoming opportunity where we will be assembling a team to deliver large-scale digital transformation programs. We are seeking an experienced **Test Manager** to oversee the testing lifecycle and ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions across complex projects.

**About the Role**
The Test Manager will lead and manage testing activities across multiple programs, including planning, execution, reporting, and defect resolution. You’ll work closely with agile delivery teams, business stakeholders, and technical specialists to ensure solutions meet business needs and quality standards.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead test planning, preparation, and execution, including coordinating testers and resources.
- Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, cases, and reports for both technical and executive audiences.
- Drive adoption of test automation and embed quality best practices across the delivery lifecycle.
- Oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring effective planning, execution, and issue resolution.
- Manage and execute system, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing cycles.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to the testing team, fostering continuous improvement.
- Manage the defect lifecycle from identification through to resolution, ensuring high quality and traceability.
- Support go-live readiness activities and provide hypercare during cutover.
- Communicate testing outcomes clearly to stakeholders, both business and technical.
- Contribute to performance testing where required.

**Essential Criteria**
- Demonstrated experience leading testing of complex systems within large, fast-paced projects.
- Strong experience developing and managing test plans, test cases, and progress/status reports.
- Proficiency with industry-standard testing tools, particularly Azure DevOps.
- Experience managing the defect lifecycle including prioritisation, tracking, and retesting.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

**Desirable**
- Experience in performance testing.

**Who are Local Peoples?**

Local Peoples is a strategic research and design studio based in Melbourne and Canberra.

Our mission is to design healthy, resilient and resourceful communities. We are proud to be a certified B-Corporation with a strong focus on our social, environmental and economic impact.

We work across brand and digital design, place and experience design,, content and community engagement. Our key partners include state and local government, social enterprises, universities and large commercial organisations. All are experiencing complex challenges right now and we believe that design research, thinking and delivery can help to solve these challenges and make positive change for people and the planet.

**Why join Local Peoples?**
- ** Representative and inclusive** - we are dedicated to building an inclusive and accessible workplace for people from diverse backgrounds
- ** Impact driven** - work towards achieving real impact for people and the environment
- ** Fantastic culture** - driven by a welcoming, supportive and collaborative team environment
- ** Professional support for design excellence**:

- benefit from being a part of one of Australia’s fastest growing design and delivery communities
- **Flexible working arrangements** - including the ability to work remotely
- ** Market rate salaries** - attractive remuneration packages in line with the market rate
- ** Flexible employment types** - including the preference for permanent, but will consider contracting

Local Peoples proudly supports the LGBTQ+ community, neurodiverse individuals, and First Nations people. We are committed to creating inclusive spaces where everyone, regardless of their identity, feels valued and respected. Together, we strive for equality and a positive future for all.

Local Peoples works, creates, and plays on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong, and Wathaurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, land which has never been ceded. We thank them for caring for this land for over 40,000 years and recognize and pay our deepest respect to Elders past, present, and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land
- Department
- Delivery
- Role
- Test Analyst
- Locations
- Abbotsford, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney
- Remote status
- Hybrid

**About Local Peoples**:
Local Peoples works, creates and plays on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong and Wathaurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, land which has never been ceded. We thank them them for caring for this land for over 40,000 years and recognise and pay our deepest respect to elders past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.


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