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Test Lead

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Description

At Leidos Australia, you'll lead test planning, governance, and delivery across complex systems and integrated environments. You'll coordinate test resources, environments, data, and dependencies to ensure solutions meet functional, technical, and operational requirements.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop the test strategy, master test plan, schedules, entry and exit criteria, and reporting framework.
  • Coordinate functional, system, integration, performance, security, and user acceptance testing across delivery teams.
  • Manage defects, test risks, environment constraints, and dependencies, ensuring issues are clearly prioritised and escalated.
  • Provide evidence-based reporting on test progress, coverage, quality, and release readiness.
  • Develop capabilities for both procedural and automated testing.

Requirements:

  • Experience managing testing across complex technology, engineering, or transformation programs.
  • Capability in test strategy, planning, estimation, execution oversight, and reporting.
  • Knowledge of functional, integration, system, and acceptance testing approaches.
  • Experience managing defects, traceability, test environments, data, and release dependencies.
  • Ability to lead test teams and coordinate vendors, engineers, and business representatives.
  • Ability to communicate quality risks and readiness recommendations to governance forums.

Benefits:

  • Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
  • Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
  • Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
  • Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
  • Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.

Skills

Required

  • test strategy
  • test planning
  • test execution
  • defect management
  • test automation

Nice to have

  • ASDEFCON testing programs
  • performance testing
  • service virtualisation
  • testing certification

Ready to apply?

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