Test Analyst jobs in Melbourne VIC

Terra Firma is a leading Australian business and technology consulting firm with a 30-year history of delivering successful client outcomes. We partner with organisations across Government, Banking & Financial Services, Telecommunications, Technology, Utilities and Not-for-Profit, helping them solve complex business challenges and deliver meaningful transformation.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Test Analyst to work on complex initiatives involving core banking platforms, payments, lending products, data migration, and enterprise-wide system integration/migration testing.

As a Terra Firma Business Consultant, you will benefit from working with one of our valued clients on a significant transformation initiative. You will be part of a collaborative project team, working across multiple workstreams and engaging with business and technical stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of testing outcomes.

The Role

• Test Planning and Execution: Develop and execute test cases, test scripts, and test scenarios across multiple project streams to ensure quality outcomes.
• Functional and Integration Testing: Perform Functional, System Integration (SIT), End-to-End (E2E), Regression, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
• Data Migration Testing: Support data migration activities, including data validation, reconciliation, conversion testing, and migration verification.
• Defect Management: Identify, log, track, analyse, and manage defects through to resolution, working closely with development and delivery teams.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with Business Analysts, Developers, Project Managers, SMEs, and external vendors to support successful project delivery.
• Test Documentation: Produce and maintain testing artefacts including test plans, test cases, test scripts, defect reports, and test summary reports.
• Risk and Quality Assurance: Participate in risk assessments and provide clear reporting on testing progress, outcomes, and quality metrics.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to testing process improvements and share best practices across the project team.

The Ideal Candidate

You will have proven experience as a Test Analyst within Banking, Financial Services, Payments, Lending, or Core Banking transformation programs. You will possess a strong understanding of the Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC) and have experience working across large-scale technology, migration, or platform transformation initiatives.

Required Experience

• Proven experience as a Test Analyst within Banking, Financial Services, Payments, Lending, or Core Banking programs.
• Strong understanding of the Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC).
Experience performing:
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  • Functional Testing
  • System Integration Testing (SIT)
  • End-to-End Testing (E2E)
  • Regression Testing
  • UAT Support
• Experience using OpenText ALM, HP ALM, Quality Center, or similar test management tools.
• Strong SQL and data validation experience.
• Experience working with complex datasets and performing reconciliation and validation activities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Highly Desirable

• Core Banking transformation or migration experience.
• Payments, Lending, Cards, Deposits, or Digital Banking experience.
• Data migration testing experience including reconciliation and conversion testing.
• Exposure to large-scale banking platform upgrades, implementations, or replacement programs.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.

All Terra Firma employees, contractors and consultants are required to complete security and background checks, including any checks mandated by our clients, before employment or engagement.