About us

At Defence Health, we're united in our purpose to protect the health of those who protect our country. We're here to support the families of serving ADF members, ex-serving ADF and Reservists, plus the wider Defence community, to manage their health care. As a not-for-profit fund, we are for our members, not shareholders. 

We live by our values of member-first, trust, community, ownership, and excellence. Our values underpin our inclusive workplace, where we celebrate our diversity and recognise our achievements, unique perspectives, and talents. 

Defence Health is a place where we are all encouraged to excel and where we strive to be a high-performing organisation by continuously setting a better standard. We show up, stick together, solve it, and see it through.

Our promise to our own people is the same as our promise to members; we look after our own. 

The Role

As Automation Test Lead, you will lead the design, development and continuous improvement of test automation frameworks across the software delivery lifecycle. Working closely with development, DevOps, business stakeholders and project teams, you will drive continuous testing, embed shift-left quality practices and provide technical leadership to testing resources.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation and ongoing maintenance of enterprise-wide test automation frameworks.
• Develop and execute automation strategies across projects, releases and delivery streams.
• Support automated test execution through CI/CD pipelines and continuous integration tools.
• Create, build and maintain robust automation frameworks and reusable test assets to support efficient, scalable and reliable automated testing across projects
• Review and optimise automated test suites to improve coverage, reliability and maintainability.
• Oversee defect triage, tracking, reporting and root cause analysis activities.
• Coach and mentor automation and manual testing resources to build capability and a collaborative testing culture.
• Partner with development, DevOps, business stakeholders and delivery teams to plan and execute testing activities effectively.
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