Senior Test & Release Manager

Telstra Singapore; Australia; Remote; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Telstra Singapore in Australia seeks a Senior Test & Release Manager to lead test strategy, release governance, and production readiness for enterprise platforms. You will coordinate cross-functional testing across architecture, engineering, DevOps, and operations, ensuring high-quality deployments and data integrity during large migrations.

Responsibilities include driving automation with JMeter, applying New Relic observability, and mentoring testing teams while engaging stakeholders and

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience as Senior Test and Release Manager.
• Deep expertise in TNI, NNI, NDSD and OSS/BSS Inventory platforms and transformation initiatives.
• Proven delivery of large-scale data migration and transformation programs.
• Strong Neo4j expertise, including graph data modelling, migration and validation.
• Hands-on JMeter performance engineering and CI/CD testing experience.
• Expertise in New Relic monitoring, observability and operational support.
• Experience in solution design, architecture reviews, APIs, microservices and platform optimisation.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps and operations teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Copilot, Jira and Confluence for delivery governance and productivity.

Responsibilities

• Lead test planning, test strategy execution, and quality engineering activities across the transformation portfolio.
• Define and govern 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 data migrations and platform transformations.
• Drive test automation and CI/CD testing using JMeter within pipelines.
• Manage release governance, risk, dependencies, and stakeholder approvals.
• Validate data migrations ensuring quality, integrity, and reconciliation (Neo4j).
• Monitor platform performance and observability (New Relic).
• Review solution designs for testability, scalability and readiness.
• Lead production readiness reviews and successful live deployments.
• Facilitate defect triage and remediation across delivery lifecycle.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to testing, release and delivery teams.
• Communicate delivery status and risks to business stakeholders.
• Maintain governance artefacts and reporting using Jira, Confluence, and Copilot.
• Drive continuous improvement in testing, release and ops processes.

Skills

Test strategy

Quality engineering

Release governance

Production readiness

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Copilot

Neo4j

JMeter

New Relic

Job description

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

9 Nov 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior Test & Release Manager

Job Summary

Job Description

What You'll Do:

• Lead test planning, test strategy execution, and quality engineering activities across the TNI transformation portfolio.
• Define and govern release schedules, release readiness assessments, and production deployment activities.
• Coordinate end-to-end testing across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps, and operations teams.
• Oversee quality assurance for large-scale Inventory platform migrations, transformations, and system modernisation initiatives.
• Drive test automation, performance testing, and continuous testing practices within CI/CD pipelines using tools such as JMeter.
• Manage release governance processes, including risk identification, dependency management, change control, and stakeholder approvals.
• Validate inventory and graph data migrations, ensuring data quality, integrity, and reconciliation using Neo4j expertise.
• Monitor platform performance, stability, and operational health through observability and monitoring solutions such as New Relic.
• Partner with solution architects and engineering teams to review solution designs and ensure testability, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Lead production readiness reviews and ensure successful implementation of releases into live environments.
• Facilitate defect triage, issue resolution, root cause analysis, and remediation activities throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to testing, release, and delivery teams across complex transformation programs.
• Engage regularly with business stakeholders to communicate delivery status, risks, quality metrics, and release outcomes.
• Maintain delivery documentation, governance artefacts, and reporting using Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Copilot.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across testing, release management, quality assurance, and operational support processes.

About You:

• At least 5 years' experience as Senior Test and Release Manager
• Deep expertise in TNI, NNI, NDSD and OSS/BSS Inventory platforms and transformation initiatives
• Leadership of test strategy, quality engineering, release governance and production readiness for enterprise platforms
• Proven delivery of large-scale data migration and transformation programs
• Strong Neo4j expertise, including graph data modelling, migration and validation
• Hands-on JMeter performance engineering and CI/CD testing experience
• Expertise in New Relic monitoring, observability and operational support
• Experience in solution design, architecture reviews, APIs, microservices and platform optimisation
• Strong stakeholder management across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps and operations teams
• Proficient in Microsoft Copilot, Jira and Confluence for delivery governance and productivity
• Leadership of complex cross-functional transformation programs, including risk, dependency and release management