Senior Test Lead: Banking Infra Migration

FinXL; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FinXL is seeking a Senior Test Lead to join our Testing Practice and be deployed with a leading Banking client on a 6+ months contract in Norwest. This role combines hands-on test management with strategic leadership across infrastructure migration initiatives and enterprise-scale testing across data centres.

The ideal candidate will oversee end-to-end testing, manage defects and governance using JIRA/QMetry, and mentor testing personnel while aligning with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading quality delivery on enterprise IT infrastructure and migrations.
• Experience with performance, failover and security testing.
• Proven leadership of testing teams and governance.
• Ability to manage testing across multiple data centres and environments.
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end assurance activities, schedules, and milestones across multiple workstreams.
• Establish quality frameworks, execution strategies, and streamlined defect workflows.
• Identify risks and cross-project dependencies, driving mitigation strategies.
• Serve as primary operational link between technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure timely access to test environments, data sets, and infrastructure support.
• Mentor and review testing personnel, step in as Test Manager delegate when needed.
• Track execution metrics and present status updates for go/no-go decisions.

Skills

Test management

IT infrastructure

Quality delivery

Leadership

JIRA

QMetry

JMeter

Playwright

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

JIRA

QMetry

JMeter

Playwright

Job description

FinXL is seeking a Senior Test Lead to join our Testing Practice and be deployed with a leading Banking client on a 6+ months contract in Norwest. This role combines hands-on test management with strategic leadership across infrastructure migration initiatives and enterprise-scale testing across data centres.

The ideal candidate will oversee end-to-end testing, manage defects and governance using JIRA/QMetry, and mentor testing personnel while aligning with senior stakeholders.