Test Architect

Talenza; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenza is seeking a Test Architect to drive the standardised testing model across a major cloud delivery programme in Brisbane. The role emphasises governance, embedding standards, and configuring tooling to enforce the model across teams.

It is a Hybrid 50/50 arrangement based in Brisbane with an initial contract through 30 June 2027, and potential extension. The focus is on setting the strategy and enabling teams to apply it consistently rather than hands-on testing.

Qualifications

• Experience as Test Architect/Tech Lead; automation or development background preferred.
• Proven track record setting up a test practice or rolling out testing standards at scale.
• Strong governance capability: policies, guardrails, quality standards, and ways of working.
• Experience across multiple test tools and standardising practices across teams; able to define tooling configurations.

Responsibilities

• Define and embed a standard testing model across governance, standards and tooling.
• Lead the rollout of testing standards across distributed delivery teams.
• Configure tooling to enforce standards, not just provide recommendations.
• Avoid hands-on testing execution; focus on direction-setting and architecture of test practices.

Skills

Test Architect

Tech Lead

Automation background

Governance

Tooling standardisation

Tools

Testing tools

Testing framework

Standards enforcement

Job description

Test Architect | Brisbane CBD Office Location| Hybrid (50/50) | Initial Contract to 30 June 2027 (Potential to extend)

About The Role

Talenza are supporting a major programme currently in delivery, now moving into a new cloud delivery model and needing to lift delivery velocity through a stronger, standardised testing practice.

This is a Tech Lead / Test Architect style role focused on defining "what good looks like" and implementing it across governance, standards and tooling configuration that enforces the model. It's not a hands-on execution role, and it's not a "write a test strategy document and walk away" engagement, you'll be embedding standards that teams can repeatedly apply.

• Contract through 30 June 2027 (Potential to extend)
• Start: ASAP (ideally within 2 weeks)

Requirements

• Test Architect / Tech Lead level experience (ideally someone who's come from an automation or development background)
• Proven experience setting up and implementing a test practice / testing framework or rolling out testing standards at scale
• Strong governance capability: policies, guardrails, quality standards, and ways of working
• Strong tooling credibility, experience working across multiple test tools and standardising practices across teams
• Ability to define how tooling should be configured to enforce standards (not just "recommendations")
• Strong technical lens on automation standards and approach (direction-setting, not necessarily coding)
• Comfortable operating across distributed delivery teams and aligning stakeholders to a consistent model
• Not suitable for candidates whose scope is primarily test plans / high-level strategy documents only

Test Architect | Brisbane CBD Office Location | Hybrid (50/50) | Initial Contract to 30 June 2027 (Potential to extend)