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Senior Test & Release Manager

Australia (Flexible)

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Seniority
Lead / management
Country
AU
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
5 Nov 2026

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Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

9 Nov 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior Test & Release Manager

Job Summary

Job Description

What You'll Do:

  • Lead test planning, test strategy execution, and quality engineering activities across the TNI transformation portfolio.
  • Define and govern release schedules, release readiness assessments, and production deployment activities.
  • Coordinate end-to-end testing across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps, and operations teams.
  • Oversee quality assurance for large-scale Inventory platform migrations, transformations, and system modernisation initiatives.
  • Drive test automation, performance testing, and continuous testing practices within CI/CD pipelines using tools such as JMeter.
  • Manage release governance processes, including risk identification, dependency management, change control, and stakeholder approvals.
  • Validate inventory and graph data migrations, ensuring data quality, integrity, and reconciliation using Neo4j expertise.
  • Monitor platform performance, stability, and operational health through observability and monitoring solutions such as New Relic.
  • Partner with solution architects and engineering teams to review solution designs and ensure testability, scalability, and operational readiness.
  • Lead production readiness reviews and ensure successful implementation of releases into live environments.
  • Facilitate defect triage, issue resolution, root cause analysis, and remediation activities throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to testing, release, and delivery teams across complex transformation programs.
  • Engage regularly with business stakeholders to communicate delivery status, risks, quality metrics, and release outcomes.
  • Maintain delivery documentation, governance artefacts, and reporting using Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Copilot.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across testing, release management, quality assurance, and operational support processes.

About You:

  • At least 5 years' experience as Senior Test and Release Manager
  • Deep expertise in TNI, NNI, NDSD and OSS/BSS Inventory platforms and transformation initiatives
  • Leadership of test strategy, quality engineering, release governance and production readiness for enterprise platforms
  • Proven delivery of large-scale data migration and transformation programs
  • Strong Neo4j expertise, including graph data modelling, migration and validation
  • Hands-on JMeter performance engineering and CI/CD testing experience
  • Expertise in New Relic monitoring, observability and operational support
  • Experience in solution design, architecture reviews, APIs, microservices and platform optimisation
  • Strong stakeholder management across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps and operations teams
  • Proficient in Microsoft Copilot, Jira and Confluence for delivery governance and productivity
  • Leadership of complex cross-functional transformation programs, including risk, dependency and release management
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