Test Manager - Non-Functional Testing

Description:

Advert – Manager, Non-Functional Testing (PS) – 5093

• Feel a greater sense of job satisfaction applying your valuable talents to achieve meaningful outcomes for all Australians, alongside colleagues with the same focus
• Key Department leadership role
• Develop your career in a collaborative 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?

About the team:

This role is part of the Payments Settlements department, Business Services Group. The Payments Settlements (PS) Department is responsible for the settlement of interbank obligations arising from the exchange of payments in Australia, the conduct of Exchange Settlement Accounts and the settlement of the Reserve Bank's own trading activities.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a supportive and collaborative team and work alongside experienced people who continuously strive for excellence and are passionate about ensuring mission critical systems of the department maintain their high degree of quality, resiliency, and reliability.

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Test Manager who will oversee the direction and testing delivery of non-functional changes to mission critical systems within our payments domain, while leading and developing individuals and teams to achieve goals and deliver RBA outcomes. This is a 2-year, fixed-term engagement.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Contribute to the broader strategic direction and leadership of the area, sharing accountability with other leaders for overall performance of deliverables and outcomes.
• Manage the implementation of changes and associated testing of vendor systems such as SWIFT and Sterling. Manage the non-functional testing of changes to RITS, FSS and other PS systems maintaining their high degree of quality, resiliency, and reliability.
• Lead and develop individuals to achieve area outcomes effectively and efficiently.
• Oversee the planning, coordination and optimisation of test activities required to deliver regular rapid changes to PS systems.
• Collaborate with responsible teams to embed, influence and lead change that impacts processes, people, and systems in the department.

Your background

• Strong people skills to influence, collaborate and communicate strongly with key stakeholders across the Bank and externally.
• Proven experience being accountable for and successfully delivering key business objectives and outcomes.
• Extensive experience in the planning, management, support, and testing of non-functional changes to mission critical systems across various methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc).
• Demonstrated speciality and innovation in establishing non-functional automation test frameworks and tools.
• Strong knowledge of payments, banking, SWIFT, settlement systems or similar mission critical systems.
• Proficiency with performance testing tools and monitoring tools such as JMeter, AppDynamics, Kibana, Gatling and similar tools.
• Strong people leadership, coaching and mentoring skills to develop team members.
• 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.

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 RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
Why RBA?
The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate 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, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward. Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

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