Senior Test & Release Leader: CI/CD & Data Migrations

Telstra Corporation; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Telstra seeks a Senior Test & Release Manager in Melbourne to lead test planning, strategy and quality engineering across the TNI transformation portfolio. You will define release schedules, readiness assessments, and manage production deployment activities, coordinating across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps and operations teams.

You will oversee QA for large-scale inventory platform migrations and modernisation initiatives, driving test automation and CI/CD testing with JMeter, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in senior test and release management roles.
• Experience leading test strategy and production readiness for enterprise platforms.
• Proven ability to drive data migrations and transformations with data quality focus.
• Strong experience with Neo4j graph data modelling, migration and validation.
• Hands-on CI/CD testing and test automation across large-scale systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead test planning, strategy execution and quality engineering across the transformation portfolio.
• Define release schedules, readiness assessments and production deployment activities.
• Coordinate end-to-end testing across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps, and operations teams.
• Oversee QA for large-scale inventory platform migrations, transformations and modernization initiatives.
• Drive test automation, performance testing and CI/CD testing with tools like JMeter.
• Manage release governance including risk, dependencies, change control and stakeholder approvals.
• Validate data migrations with quality, integrity and reconciliation using Neo4j.
• Monitor platform performance and observability with New Relic.
• Lead production readiness reviews and ensure successful releases into live environments.
• Mentor testing, release and delivery teams; report statuses to stakeholders.
• Maintain governance artefacts and reporting using Jira, Confluence and Copilot.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Test planning

Release governance

Data migrations

Neo4j graph data

CI/CD testing

Observability

Tools

JMeter

New Relic

Neo4j

Jira

Confluence

Copilot

Job description

Telstra seeks a Senior Test & Release Manager in Melbourne to lead test planning, strategy and quality engineering across the TNI transformation portfolio. You will define release schedules, readiness assessments, and manage production deployment activities, coordinating across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps and operations teams.

You will oversee QA for large-scale inventory platform migrations and modernisation initiatives, driving test automation and CI/CD testing with JMeter, and