Infrastructure Test Lead

Project description

A leading bank in Australia is undertaking a major Core Banking transformation and migration program. We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Test Lead with strong experience in Infrastructure & Platform Testing, System Integration Testing, Performance & Capacity Testing, and end-to-end technology validation. The role will coordinate infrastructure testing across multiple delivery streams, managing cross-platform dependencies, risks, environment readiness, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure the underlying technology platforms are resilient, performant, and production-ready.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Infrastructure & Platform Testing for large-scale Core Banking transformation and migration programs.
• Develop and execute comprehensive Infrastructure Test Strategies, Test Plans, Quality Gates, Dashboards, and Governance Reporting.
• Lead testing of infrastructure and technology platforms, including compute, network, storage, middleware, databases, cloud and hosting platforms relevant to the solution.
• Drive System Integration Testing (SIT) across infrastructure, platforms, applications, interfaces, and upstream/downstream systems.
• Lead Performance, Load, Stress, Scalability, and Capacity Testing, validating platforms against agreed non-functional requirements and expected production workloads.
• Validate environment readiness, platform configuration, connectivity, interfaces, monitoring, batch processing, scheduling, and operational dependencies.
• Coordinate infrastructure testing across environments and associated Core Banking platforms, integration components, and dependent applications.
• Coordinate resilience, failover, recovery, availability, and operational readiness testing in collaboration with relevant technology teams.
• Identify, track, and manage cross-platform and cross-stream dependencies, ensuring infrastructure constraints and dependencies are understood and addressed within program timelines.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate testing risks, issues, dependencies, environment constraints, and defects across multiple workstreams.
• Manage infrastructure-related defects through effective defect triage, prioritisation, ownership, reporting, escalation, and resolution governance.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, architecture, engineering, operations, security, business, vendor, and program teams to achieve testing objectives.
• Coordinate testing across multiple streams, ensuring alignment of environment availability, milestones, dependencies, releases, and migration schedules.
• Provide regular status updates, risk assessments, quality assessments, test metrics, dashboards, and quality gate recommendations to program leadership.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional testing teams and vendors to ensure effective execution and production readiness.

SKILLS

Must have

• Proven experience as a Senior Test Lead/Test Manager delivering Infrastructure and Platform Testing within large-scale transformation or migration programs.
• Strong experience in Infrastructure & Platform Testing across complex enterprise technology environments.
• Strong experience validating infrastructure components including compute, network, storage, databases, middleware, cloud/hosting platforms, connectivity, and related technology services.
• Proven experience leading System Integration Testing (SIT) across complex and highly integrated technology ecosystems.
• Strong experience in Performance, Load, Stress, Scalability, and Capacity Testing, including assessment of performance against agreed non-functional requirements.
• Experience coordinating resilience, failover, recovery, availability, and production-readiness testing across enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of environment readiness, configuration validation, connectivity, monitoring, operational dependencies, and production verification.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end testing across complex platforms with significant upstream, downstream, infrastructure, application, and third-party dependencies.
• Extensive experience in Risk Management, Dependency Management, Issue Management, and Defect Management across large programs.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute Test Strategies, Test Plans, Quality Gate Assessments, Dashboards, and Governance Reporting.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and vendor management capability across infrastructure, engineering, architecture, operations, application, and program teams.
• Ability to coordinate testing across multiple delivery streams, technology teams, environments, and vendors, ensuring alignment of dependencies, risks, and program milestones.
• Strong experience in program-level test coordination, providing transparent reporting on infrastructure readiness, quality, risks, dependencies, and release readiness.
• Excellent communication, leadership, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities within complex transformation environments.
• Experience within Banking or Financial Services and large-scale Core Banking transformation programs is highly desirable.

Nice to have

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