Engineering Quality Assurance Manager - Advice Technology

Insignia Financial; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial in Sydney seeks an Engineering Quality Assurance Manager within Advice Technology to drive end-to-end testing across complex technology changes and ensure reliable, high-quality adviser and customer experiences.

You will shape the test strategy, coordinate across business and technology teams, manage defects, and provide quality insights to stakeholders to support confident go-live decisions.

Qualifications

• Lead the end-to-end testing across system, integration, end-to-end, user acceptance and regression testing.
• Experience testing digital and customer-facing solutions, including front‑end journeys and integrated platforms.
• Proven ability to manage testing across multiple workstreams and interconnected programs.
• Proficiency with test and defect management tools such as JIRA, Xray, Zephyr or Azure DevOps; financial services or regulated environment experience is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end test strategy, approach and delivery across system, integration, end-to-end, user acceptance and regression testing.
• Champion quality across Advice and customer-facing change, ensuring adviser and customer journeys are thoroughly validated before release.
• Coordinate testing across business teams, technology teams, vendors and interconnected programs, proactively managing risks and delivery dependencies.
• Establish test scope, schedules, environments, data requirements, governance and clear entry and exit criteria to support high-quality releases.
• Lead testing of integrated solutions across upstream and downstream systems, with a focus on ensuring seamless end-to-end business and customer outcomes.
• Drive defect management and triage, assessing customer and business impacts and influencing prioritisation and resolution with key stakeholders.
• Partner with business SMEs, product owners, project managers and technology teams to ensure requirements are testable, acceptance criteria are clear and business readiness is supported.
• Provide clear reporting and quality insights to stakeholders, supporting informed go‑live decisions and highlighting risks that could impact customers, advisers or operational outcomes.

Skills

Test management

QA leadership

End-to-end testing

Stakeholder management

Defect triage

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Education

ISTQB certification (advantageous)

Tools

JIRA

Xray

Zephyr

Azure DevOps

Job description

Engineering Quality Assurance Manager - Advice Technology

• Shape quality outcomes across critical Advice and customer experiences
• Lead end-to-end testing across complex, integrated technology change
• Influence how high-quality solutions reach advisers and customers

The opportunity to join our team

Join our Advice and Customer team as an Engineering Quality Assurance Manager and play a key role in ensuring our technology and business solutions deliver reliable, high-quality experiences for advisers and customers. You'll lead the end-to-end test strategy and delivery across complex change initiatives, helping ensure new solutions work seamlessly across customer journeys, adviser experiences, systems and operational processes. Working closely with business, product and technology teams, you'll champion quality from planning through to release, identifying risks early and ensuring outcomes are fit for purpose. You'll bring together stakeholders across multiple teams and vendors to navigate dependencies, resolve defects and support confident delivery decisions. This is an opportunity to influence quality at scale while helping protect customer experience, operational continuity and strong risk outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end test strategy, approach and delivery across system, integration, end-to-end, user acceptance and regression testing.
• Champion quality across Advice and customer-facing change, ensuring adviser and customer journeys are thoroughly validated before release.
• Coordinate testing across business teams, technology teams, vendors and interconnected programs, proactively managing risks and delivery dependencies.
• Establish test scope, schedules, environments, data requirements, governance and clear entry and exit criteria to support high-quality releases.
• Lead testing of integrated solutions across upstream and downstream systems, with a focus on ensuring seamless end-to-end business and customer outcomes.
• Drive defect management and triage, assessing customer and business impacts and influencing prioritisation and resolution with key stakeholders.
• Partner with business SMEs, product owners, project managers and technology teams to ensure requirements are testable, acceptance criteria are clear and business readiness is supported.
• Provide clear reporting and quality insights to stakeholders, supporting informed go‑live decisions and highlighting risks that could impact customers, advisers or operational outcomes.

What you will bring:

• Demonstrated experience as a Test Manager, QA Manager or Senior Test Lead delivering end-to-end testing across complex business and technology transformation
• Proven experience from within Advice Technology
• Strong knowledge of system, integration, end-to-end, user acceptance and regression testing, including test strategy, governance, execution and sign-off.
• Experience testing digital and customer-facing solutions, including front‑end journeys, integrated platforms and solutions that impact adviser or customer experience.
• Proven ability to manage testing across multiple workstreams and interconnected programs, identifying risks and dependencies before they affect customer or delivery outcomes.
• Strong experience in defect management and triage, with the ability to translate technical issues into clear business and customer impacts.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to influence business leaders, delivery teams, SMEs and external partners.
• Experience leading or coordinating QA/Test Analysts and business testers within complex or matrixed delivery environments.
• Proficiency with test and defect management tools such as JIRA, Xray, Zephyr or Azure DevOps; experience within financial services or another regulated environment and ISTQB certification will be advantageous.

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