About the Company
Join a well-established Australian insurer driving large-scale digital transformation across multiple value streams. With a strong commitment to quality, innovation, and customer outcomes, this organisation offers a collaborative and forward-thinking environment where your leadership and testing expertise will make a direct impact.
About the Role
We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Program Test Manager
to lead and coordinate quality efforts across a broad program of work. This role spans multiple agile squads and value streams, requiring a strong mix of hands-on automation knowledge, strategic oversight, and stakeholder engagement. You’ll be responsible for setting the test strategy, driving automation capability, and overseeing both functional and performance testing efforts (hands-on not required for performance).
This is a critical leadership role — perfect for someone confident managing offshore teams, balancing multiple projects, and embedding quality in fast-paced delivery.
What to Expect
- Lead testing efforts across a multi-squad program, blending Agile and Waterfall delivery
- Define and drive automation testing strategy and frameworks
- Oversee performance testing delivery (LoadRunner)
- Manage stakeholders, offshore teams, and test leads across a complex value stream
- Use tools including TOSCA, Selenium, and JIRA
- Ensure governance, traceability, and quality standards are upheld
- Provide leadership and mentoring to distributed test teams
- Extensive years of software testing experience, with recent senior program/test leadership roles
- Proven experience in insurance or financial services environments
- Strong automation experience including TOSCA and Selenium
- Exposure to performance testing (LoadRunner)
- Experience working across Agile and hybrid delivery models
- Demonstrated experience managing offshore teams and distributed squads
- Excellent stakeholder communication and vendor management skills
- Prior experience scaling automation across value streams
- Comfortable in both hands-on and strategic roles
- Familiar with test governance and risk-based testing approaches
- Long-term transformation program with high visibility
- Supportive, enterprise-level environment with modern delivery practices
- Hybrid working model with a Sydney CBD base
- Rolling 6 month contract, $900 pd inc super
- Inclusive, high-trust culture that values ownership and delivery excellence
This is a great opportunity for a senior test leader to step into a high-impact role with long-term potential. If you bring the right blend of leadership, delivery, and technical oversight, we’d love to hear from you.
Please note; full work rights will be needed for this role as it is expected to extend!
