Senior Testing Analyst

Full-Time Limited Term – 12 months

Professional Services Band E: $127,957 – $138,487 per annum plus 12% statutory superannuation.

Location: Negotiable

About Southern Rural Water

Southern Rural Water (SRW) is a Victorian water corporation with nearly 170 staff, managing major dams, weirs, water licencing and more from Mallacoota through to the South Australian border. At SRW, we believe that diversity makes us stronger, and we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive and contribute to collective success. Through providing a flexible, always safe workplace and promoting employee development, we empower employees to contribute to our strategy of great value for customers and community through excellence in rural water management.

How We Support You

At Southern Rural Water, we recognise and prioritise the wellbeing and fulfillment of our staff members. Here's what we offer to ensure a balanced and rewarding work experience:

• Embrace flexibility: We support various working arrangements including WFH, 9-day fortnights, tailor your work schedule to accommodate for school drop off and pick up hours.
• Generous leave provisions: 15 days sick leave and 14 weeks paid parental leave to support you during life’s important moments!
• Health and Wellbeing: Yearly reimbursement of up to $150 per financial year to support you in physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Professional development: We support your growth through a range of internal and external training initiatives and offer study assistance programs to empower you to reach your full potential.
• Employee Assistance Program: Receive comprehensive support for yourself and your family through our employee assistance program.
• Salary Sacrifice: Salary Sacrifice options for vehicles, equipment, and superannuation to enhance your financial benefits. 
• See what else we can offer you on our Careers Page!

About the Role

At Southern Rural Water, we are currently embarking on a major Digital Transformation Program and are seeking an experienced Senior Test Analyst to play a key role in the successful delivery of our transformation and ERP initiatives.

Working closely with senior leaders, project teams, vendors and solution architects, this role will provide specialist testing expertise to validate business requirements, controls, integrations, data migration, reporting and key business outcomes. You will play a critical role in ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, operationally ready and aligned with SRW’s business, regulatory and technology requirements.

The initial focus of the role will be Enterprise Systems replacement such as Finance & Billing and Asset Management, before supporting other transformation and ERP initiatives. You will lead the planning, preparation, coordination and execution of structured testing activities, including developing test plans, scenarios and cases, defining acceptance criteria and maintaining clear end-to-end requirements traceability.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a major transformation program and help shape the systems, processes and technology that will support the way SRW operates into the future.

As the Senior Test Analyst, some of your responsibilities will include:

• Support end-to-end test planning and delivery across SRW’s Digital Transformation Program, with a primary focus on Finance and Billing.
• Oversee vendor-led system testing activities, reviewing test coverage, test evidence, defect quality, issue resolution and alignment with agreed testing standards.
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing with business teams, including preparation of UAT materials, business scenarios, test data, execution support and defect triage.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test cases, acceptance criteria and requirements traceability across business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Support all key test cycles, including system testing, system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, data migration testing, reporting validation and production readiness testing.

About you

The successful candidate for this position will be able to demonstrate some of the desired experience and abilities below:

• Extensive experience in test analysis, quality assurance or test leadership roles within complex enterprise system implementations, ideally with experience across Finance, Billing or ERP environments.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end testing practices, including developing test plans and test cases, requirements traceability, system and integration testing, UAT, regression testing, data migration testing, defect management and production readiness.
• Understanding of test automation, performance, security and other non-functional testing practices.
• Sound understanding of Finance and Billing processes, controls, data, integrations, reconciliation and reporting requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify testing gaps, defects, risks, dependencies and business impacts across complex processes and systems.

How to Apply

Applications should be made online by clicking 'Apply' before midnight Sunday 13 September 2026 or by visiting our website: www.srw.com.au

Please take the time to describe how your knowledge, skills and abilities would make you a suitable candidate for this role as part of your cover letter.

A Position Description for this position can be obtained from this link.

Southern Rural Water is committed to diversity and inclusion in employment and is proud to encourage applications from people of different backgrounds, abilities, ages, genders, gender identities and/or sexual orientations.

Southern Rural Water acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters we work with and within, and pay respects to Elders past and present.

We welcome applications from people with disability and aim to provide an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss your reasonable adjustments during interviews, please contact: peopleandculture@srw.com.au