Test Lead Consultant

We are seeking an experienced Test Lead-Consultant to own test strategy, planning and delivery for our client and Point of Sale (POS) solutions. The role requires strong domain knowledge, stakeholder management and hands-on performance testing experience, preferably with JMeter.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead test strategy, planning and execution of POS applications.
• Define test scope, scenarios, cases, acceptance criteria and quality metrics.
• Manage functional, integration, system, regression, API and performance testing.
• Coordinate with business, product and engineering teams throughout delivery.
• Lead defect triage, risk management, reporting and quality governance.
• Support UAT, release readiness, production validation and deployment.
• Mentor test engineers and drive consistent quality practices.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience in test management, strategy and governance for large programs.
• POS knowledge, including transactions, payments, pricing, promotions, returns, reconciliation and integrations.
• Expertise in functional and non-functional testing, API testing, defect management and impact analysis.
• Hands-on experience with JMeter and API performance testing.
• Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Agile/Scrum, SDLC, STLC and UAT processes.
• Occasional early morning shift (As needed)
• Should be ready to work 2 weekends a month.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with store platforms, store applications and large transformation programs.
• Experience leading distributed test teams across multiple workstreams.
• ISTQB, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or performance-testing certification.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.

On-call and Shift Expectations:  Our positions are primarily focused on managed services, meaning you will be responsible for maintaining and improving our clients' IT systems (Applications and Infrastructure). Flexibility and adaptability are key, as you may be required to work in shifts to provide continuous support.

•  1 week in a month early morning shift (3:30 am to 11 am)
•  1 weekend in a month (morning / regular shift) as per rotation 

Benefits of working at Accenture:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities.
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. 

As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.

 
We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

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