Infrastructure Test Lead

Luxoft; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft Germany is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Test Lead for a major Core Banking transformation in Australia. You will orchestrate end-to-end infrastructure and platform testing across compute, network, storage, databases, and cloud platforms, aligning with SIT, performance, and capacity testing requirements.

You will coordinate across delivery streams, manage risks and environment readiness, and report governance metrics to program leadership, ensuring production-readiness and resilience of

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading Infrastructure & Platform Testing in large-scale transformation or migration programs.
• Strong experience across compute, network, storage, databases, middleware and cloud hosting platforms.
• Proven ability to coordinate SIT across multiple teams and tech stacks.
• Extensive exposure to Performance, Load, Stress, and Capacity testing against non-functional reqs.
• Experience managing environment readiness, configuration validation, and operational dependencies.
• Demonstrated risk, dependency, issue and defect management across large programs.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management across engineering, operations, and project teams.
• Ability to provide transparent testing metrics, dashboards and governance reporting.
• Experience in Banking/Financial Services and Core Banking transformations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Infrastructure & Platform Testing for large-scale Core Banking transformation projects.
• Develop and execute Infrastructure Test Strategies, Plans, Quality Gates, Dashboards, and Governance reporting.
• Lead testing of infrastructure components including compute, network, storage, databases, middleware and cloud platforms.
• Drive SIT across infrastructure, platforms, apps, interfaces and upstream/downstream systems.
• Lead Performance, Load, Stress, Scalability and Capacity testing against production workloads.
• Validate environment readiness, platform configuration, connectivity, interfaces, monitoring and batch processing.
• Coordinate testing across environments, platforms, and dependent applications.
• Coordinate resilience, failover, recovery, availability and production-readiness testing with tech teams.
• Identify, track and mitigate cross-platform dependencies and testing risks.
• Manage defects through triage, prioritisation and governance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve testing objectives and alignment across streams.
• Provide regular status updates, risk & quality assessments, test metrics and governance to leadership.
• Lead cross-functional testing teams and vendors to ensure production readiness.

Skills

Infrastructure Testing

Platform Testing

System Integration Testing

Performance Testing

Capacity Testing

Risk Management

Defect Management

Vendor Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Test Strategy & Governance

Banking Domain

Job description

Project description

A leading bank in Australia is undertaking a major Core Banking transformation and migration program. We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Test Lead with strong experience in Infrastructure & Platform Testing, System Integration Testing, Performance & Capacity Testing, and end-to-end technology validation. The role will coordinate infrastructure testing across multiple delivery streams, managing cross-platform dependencies, risks, environment readiness, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure the underlying technology platforms are resilient, performant, and production-ready.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Infrastructure & Platform Testing for large-scale Core Banking transformation and migration programs.
• Develop and execute comprehensive Infrastructure Test Strategies, Test Plans, Quality Gates, Dashboards, and Governance Reporting.
• Lead testing of infrastructure and technology platforms, including compute, network, storage, middleware, databases, cloud and hosting platforms relevant to the solution.
• Drive System Integration Testing (SIT) across infrastructure, platforms, applications, interfaces, and upstream/downstream systems.
• Lead Performance, Load, Stress, Scalability, and Capacity Testing, validating platforms against agreed non-functional requirements and expected production workloads.
• Validate environment readiness, platform configuration, connectivity, interfaces, monitoring, batch processing, scheduling, and operational dependencies.
• Coordinate infrastructure testing across environments and associated Core Banking platforms, integration components, and dependent applications.
• Coordinate resilience, failover, recovery, availability, and operational readiness testing in collaboration with relevant technology teams.
• Identify, track, and manage cross-platform and cross-stream dependencies, ensuring infrastructure constraints and dependencies are understood and addressed within program timelines.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate testing risks, issues, dependencies, environment constraints, and defects across multiple workstreams.
• Manage infrastructure-related defects through effective defect triage, prioritisation, ownership, reporting, escalation, and resolution governance.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, architecture, engineering, operations, security, business, vendor, and program teams to achieve testing objectives.
• Coordinate testing across multiple streams, ensuring alignment of environment availability, milestones, dependencies, releases, and migration schedules.
• Provide regular status updates, risk assessments, quality assessments, test metrics, dashboards, and quality gate recommendations to program leadership.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional testing teams and vendors to ensure effective execution and production readiness.

SKILLS

Must have

• Proven experience as a Senior Test Lead/Test Manager delivering Infrastructure and Platform Testing within large-scale transformation or migration programs.
• Strong experience in Infrastructure & Platform Testing across complex enterprise technology environments.
• Strong experience validating infrastructure components including compute, network, storage, databases, middleware, cloud/hosting platforms, connectivity, and related technology services.
• Proven experience leading System Integration Testing (SIT) across complex and highly integrated technology ecosystems.
• Strong experience in Performance, Load, Stress, Scalability, and Capacity Testing, including assessment of performance against agreed non-functional requirements.
• Experience coordinating resilience, failover, recovery, availability, and production-readiness testing across enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of environment readiness, configuration validation, connectivity, monitoring, operational dependencies, and production verification.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end testing across complex platforms with significant upstream, downstream, infrastructure, application, and third-party dependencies.
• Extensive experience in Risk Management, Dependency Management, Issue Management, and Defect Management across large programs.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute Test Strategies, Test Plans, Quality Gate Assessments, Dashboards, and Governance Reporting.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and vendor management capability across infrastructure, engineering, architecture, operations, application, and program teams.
• Ability to coordinate testing across multiple delivery streams, technology teams, environments, and vendors, ensuring alignment of dependencies, risks, and program milestones.
• Strong experience in program-level test coordination, providing transparent reporting on infrastructure readiness, quality, risks, dependencies, and release readiness.
• Excellent communication, leadership, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities within complex transformation environments.
• Experience within Banking or Financial Services and large-scale Core Banking transformation programs is highly desirable.

Nice to have

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