Technical Test Analyst

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Join our organisation and experience a culture that fosters camaraderie and personal growth, serving and connecting the regional communities of NSW and southern QLD. Enjoy work-life balance and training and development opportunities across a diverse range of career pathways.

This is a permanent position and can be based anywhere within Essential Energy's operational footprint.

About the role

As a Technical Test Analyst at Essential Energy, you will play a key part in ensuring our digital solutions are robust, reliable, and fit for purpose. You'll play a key role in establishing and leading the test automation capability and be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing thorough testing across the Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC), collaborating closely with development, QA teams, and business stakeholders. Your work will help ensure that software and hardware releases meet documented requirements and are delivered with minimal risk. You'll report on Test Automation objectives and provide valuable insights for continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Plan and coordinate test phases to meet project timelines, scope, and quality outcomes.
• Develop and execute test cases based on system requirements and specifications.
• Drive the test automation strategy in conjunction with the Testing Practice team and identify test automation opportunities.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams, and business stakeholders to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Utilize SQL/KQL to query databases and analyse data integrity.
• Monitor and report on Test automation objectives and outcomes.
• Continuously improve and maintain the automated test suite for maximum reliability and provide recommendations for improvements.

About You

You are a detail-oriented professional with a passion for quality assurance and technical testing. You thrive in collaborative environments and have a strong understanding of both manual and automated testing within Agile or Waterfall frameworks. Your communication skills enable you to work effectively across teams, including remote colleagues, and you're comfortable mentoring others in best practices and technical tools.

To be successful, you will have:

• Demonstrated experience in manual and automated testing within software development lifecycles.
• Proficiency in automation testing tools such as Selenium, Cypress, TOSCA, or Playwright.
• Strong skills in SQL/KQL for data interrogation and analysis.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues independently.
• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical concepts to non-technical team members.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced Diploma of Information Technology or demonstrated capability through past employment experience and/or relevant qualifications

Why Essential Energy

Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits through our corporate partnerships with organisations such as Qantas, Optus, nib and Mildura Health Fund. You will also gain access to our Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. Visit our employee benefits page for more information.

We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.

An energy network doesn't just keep the lights on… it's a living network that needs to adapt to new and emerging energy generation technologies while still meeting the energy needs of customers.

It requires innovation, commitment, and collaboration to bring people together to solve the energy delivery challenges of the modern world.

Your potential will be realised, and you'll feel a real sense of purpose and satisfaction knowing you have a pivot role to play in delivering the energy of the future to the people who need it today.

For further information please contact Roshni Pius - Manager Solution Design and Engineering on

Applications close on Sunday 18 January 2026 at 11:55pm.

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Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.

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