Test Analyst - 9 month max tenure contract

Location: Scoresby, Victoria, Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

• We’re a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace – we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.

Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers

Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life.  Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled Test Analyst for a 9 month max tenure contract to manage and support end to end testing activities across the complex, multi-vendor environment.

The role is responsible for planning, designing, coordinating and executing system and integration testing with strong emphasis on the documentation, validation, governance, stakeholder coordination and consolidated reporting. This position acts as a key point of contact for all testing related activities and ensures quality outcomes across cross-functional delivery streams.

Key Responsibilities

• Review business requirements, functional specifications and solution design documents; ensure full traceability between requirements, design and test artefacts.

• Develop comprehensive test strategies, test plans and detailed test cases; identify test environments, access and test data dependencies; provide test effort estimations and input into project schedules.

• Perform end‑to‑end testing across interconnected systems; support testing activities throughout the software development life cycle; perform test readiness assessments.

• Facilitate defect management including logging, triaging and retesting; manage testing risks and dependencies; ensure compliance with testing standards and governance frameworks.

• Coordinate testing activities across multiple vendor and internal teams; align testing timelines with release and deployment schedules; ensure evidence collection for audit purposes and provide testing progress and completion reporting.

About You and What You'll Bring

• Extensive experience using Azure DevOps for test execution and defect management.

• Strong hands-on API integration testing experience.

• Experience writing detailed test cases for complex systems.

• Experience managing testing in multi-vendor delivery environments.

• Strong coordination, analytical and problem-solving and stakeholder management capability.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a Baseline level security clearance.

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

Next Steps

• To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.

• Recruitment process - virtual / face to face interview & background checks.

• Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.

• We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team [email protected] if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process. 

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.