ICT Test Manager, ICT Solutions and COE

Agency Purpose

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is an independent statutory authority established by the Australian Government to maintain an impartial and independent electoral system for eligible voters through active electoral roll management, efficient delivery of polling services, and targeted education and public awareness programs.

The AEC’s values and commitments

The AEC values and commitments are an essential component of our operating environment and frame how AEC staff work. The AEC's focus is on electoral integrity through the values of quality, agility and professionalism.

The Team

The AEC is building capability to ensure the success of the AEC’s modernisation programs and work packages.

The Enterprise Digital Delivery Branch (EDDB) delivers Information, Communication and Technology services to the AEC and is divided into three sections: IT Event Solutions, IT Solutions and IT Integration. Services are delivered through a select sourcing model, with a mixture of in-house and outsourced resources.

The EDDB is the application development engine for the AEC, enabling federal and industrial elections through a range of applications. It supports the AEC with application development across many varied technology development platforms such as .Net, Java and some legacy.

The EDDB is committed to building the agency’s information technology capability by providing resilient, modern and secure systems informed by data and insights, and to upskill teams to develop innovative new products and services.

The AEC is committed to the APS values of being impartial, committed to service, accountable, respectful and ethical.

The Opportunity

The AEC is looking to engage an enthusiastic and professional ICT Test Manager to develop a Community of Practice that ensures the AEC is aligned to industry best practice and all areas within the agency are adhering to the same standards.

The ICT Test Manager role is to actively develop and manage the assurance activities for existing systems within the AEC using Agile Scrum and Sprint delivery processes.

The successful ICT Test Manager will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• Line management and capability uplift of Test Analysts (a mix of both APS and labour hire).
• Creating and maintaining functional Test Plans.
• Liaising with stakeholders as the primary representative for testing.
• Identifying testing risks and develop appropriate mitigations.
• Ensuring adoption of knowledge management, continuous improvement and support and plan/design data collection.
• Coordinating test activities with required stakeholders for test reporting, risk management and test scheduling.
• Producing status reports.
• Overseeing defect/bug management.
• Coordinating capability/competency development for test team and testing agency wide.
• Overseeing development of core regression suites.

To excel you’ll have:

Mandatory

• Demonstrated management experience and strong leadership capabilities.
• Experience in supporting the full Software Development Lifecycle and implementation of ICT Projects within a remote team environment.
• Experience in managing overall team and testing deliverables, providing testing strategies, and methodologies as well as guidance in areas of user acceptance test management, planning and overseeing all aspects of testing.
• Ability to identify risk and manage mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to provide comprehensive and regular status reports to the executive on progress against required deliverables.
• Proven experience working in an Agile team and management of staff issues.
• Highly skilled and focussed high-level stakeholder management, engagement and collaboration.

Desirable

• Relevant qualifications in information technology or computer science (or other relevant discipline).
• Experience with Backend API testing / interface: REST, JSON, XML and SQL querying ability.
• Proficiency using tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Leadership skills to support and enable a positive team culture.

Eligibility

• AEC employees must be Australian citizens.
• Any person who is, and seen to be active in political affairs, and intends to publicly carry on this activity, may compromise the strict neutrality of the AEC and cannot be considered.
• Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain a character clearance.
• Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain the security clearance required for this role.