Data & Analytics Test Lead - Hybrid (Melbourne/Sydney)

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a testing leadership expert in Australia to oversee a major Data & Analytics program for an insurance client, with a hybrid base in Melbourne or Sydney. You will shape the test strategy, drive end-to-end data quality across ETL, data warehousing, BI and cloud platforms, and lead distributed testing teams with governance and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes automated testing, regulatory readiness, and continuous improvement, collaborating with program leadership and data

Qualifications

• Experience in the insurance industry.
• Strong stakeholder management capability.
• Experience testing data warehousing, ETL, BI platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud data services and regulatory reporting considerations.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Quality and Test Strategy across ETL, data warehousing, BI, analytics and cloud data services.
• Lead planning, design, execution and reporting for functional, integration, regression, automation, performance and non-functional testing.
• Oversee end-to-end validation of data pipelines, transformations, models and APIs.
• Establish data-quality controls covering profiling, reconciliation, anomaly detection and cleansing.
• Partner with data governance teams to embed quality assurance across metadata, lineage and data-management practices.
• Coordinate test readiness across environments, test data, tooling and licences.
• Design test cases and automation scripts and identify opportunities to expand automation.
• Manage test execution, defect reporting and triage and collaborate with delivery teams to support resolution.
• Support regulatory reporting readiness through quality gates, traceability and test evidence.
• Prepare test reports, metrics, quality risks and status updates and support test sign-off and closure.
• Lead distributed testing teams and drive continuous improvement and capability uplift.

Skills

Insurance domain

Stakeholder mgmt

Data warehousing tests

ETL testing

SQL / Python

Cloud platforms

BI tools

Test management tools

Data governance

Tools

Jira

Xray

Zephyr

Job description

EY is seeking a testing leadership expert in Australia to oversee a major Data & Analytics program for an insurance client, with a hybrid base in Melbourne or Sydney. You will shape the test strategy, drive end-to-end data quality across ETL, data warehousing, BI and cloud platforms, and lead distributed testing teams with governance and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes automated testing, regulatory readiness, and continuous improvement, collaborating with program leadership and data