About the Role
This 6-month contract role involves owning and driving the end-to-end testing strategy and execution for onboarding QMS. You will establish the test governance framework, author the Master Test Strategy, and lead cross-functional execution through SIT, UAT, parallel payroll, and production cutover validation, ensuring target enterprise platforms are fully validated and ready for Go-Live.
Responsibilities
- Author and own the Master Test Strategy, test governance framework, and defect management process across all Finance and P&C streams.
- Author, implement, and manage the Master Test Strategy, detailed test plans, and scenario frameworks across all Finance and P&C sub-streams.
- Establish and maintain the testing platform, govern script creation by SMEs, validate test environments, and lock baseline script suites ahead of execution.
- Manage and oversee System Integration Testing (SIT) and End-to-End Testing (E2E) across core ERP, P&C systems, and sub-ledger interfaces.
- Manage and oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT) alongside Finance and P&C SMEs to ensure end-to-end business scenarios are thoroughly validated.
- Own the payroll validation and parallel-run test strategy, co-authored with Payroll, ensuring go/no-go decisions rest on a defensible variance-analysis approach.
- Establish and manage the defect management process, ensuring defects are accurately reported, prioritised, tracked, and resolved in a timely manner.
Requirements
- Proven track record as a Test Lead / Test Manager driving end-to-end test strategies across large-scale enterprise ERP, HR, and Finance implementations.
- Functional/Testing familiarity with key enterprise applications: Dynamics 365, Workday, Humanforce, Basware, SAP Concur, NetSuite, and TM1.
- Hands-on expertise managing test suites and defect triage.
- Demonstrated experience governing SIT, UAT, Parallel Payroll testing, and financial sub-ledger integrations with a strict $0-variance reconciliation requirement.
- Strong leadership skills to direct cross-functional Business SMEs, Data teams, and Stream Leads while keeping daily BAU operations unencumbered.
- Must have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.
Skills
- Test Strategy
- Test Governance
- Defect Management
- System Integration Testing (SIT)
- End-to-End Testing (E2E)
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Payroll Validation
- Parallel Run Testing
- ERP
- HR Systems
- Finance Systems
- Dynamics 365
- Workday
- Humanforce
- Basware
- SAP Concur
- NetSuite
- TM1
Location
- North Sydney
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Contract
- Hybrid
- Onsite (minimum 3 days)
Experience Level
- Lead
- Manager
Benefits
- 18 weeks paid parental leave with no distinction between primary and secondary carers
- Access to 'Employee Exclusives' program
- Digital newspaper subscription to our mastheads
- Annual gift voucher for Stan subscription
About the Company
- Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company.
- Working at Nine offers a unique range of experiences and opportunities.
- Nine's content reaches almost every Australian, bringing people together and celebrating moments.
- Nine is evolving and seeks individuals with new ideas and innovation.
Equal Opportunity
- We're committed to a safe, respectful and inclusive Nine.
- We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, genders, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
- Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please advise us when you apply.
