Test Lead

Preacta Recruitment; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Preacta Recruitment is seeking a Test Lead for a premium retail client building a new automated National Distribution Centre in Australia. You will own the test strategy across SIT, UAT and end-to-end testing, guiding a small SIT team through integration testing between core retail systems, Blue Yonder WMS, and the robotics platform.

Based in Sydney, you’ll align test phases with vendor delivery dates, manage defects with multiple vendors, and lead go-live readiness alongside warehouse teams on

Qualifications

• 8+ years in testing, including leading testing on a WMS implementation or distribution centre go-live.
• Experience with a Tier 1 WMS such as Blue Yonder (JDA), Manhattan or similar.
• Strong functional understanding of warehouse operations: receiving, putaway, waving, picking, packing, replenishment and dispatch.
• Proven SIT and UAT management across multiple vendors on large transformation programmes.
• Confidence leading a small team and holding the line on quality with senior stakeholders.
• Exposure to warehouse automation, WCS or robotics (AutoStore, Knapp, Dematic, Swisslog or similar) highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Owning the test strategy, test plans and entry and exit criteria across SIT, UAT and end-to-end testing.
• Leading and coaching a small team of SIT Test Analysts, while staying hands-on where needed.
• Running defect triage across the business, the WMS team and an international automation partner.
• Aligning test phases with vendor delivery dates and programme milestones.
• Reporting test progress, quality and risk to programme leadership.
• Leading operational readiness and go-live testing alongside warehouse teams.

Skills

Test strategy

SIT leadership

UAT management

Defect triage

Stakeholder communication

Team coaching

Quality assurance

Tools

Blue Yonder WMS

Manhattan WMS

Job description

About the role

Our client is a well-known, fast-growing premium retail brand, currently building a brand new National Distribution Centre that will take its warehouse operation from fully manual to semi-automated, with robotic picking and packing. They’re looking for a Test Lead to own testing across the programme, leading a small SIT team through integration testing between core retail systems, Blue Yonder WMS and the new robotics platform, and on through to go-live.

What you’ll be doing

• Owning the test strategy, test plans and entry and exit criteria across SIT, UAT and end-to-end testing
• Leading and coaching a small team of SIT Test Analysts, while staying hands-on where needed
• Running defect triage across the business, the WMS team and an international automation partner
• Aligning test phases with vendor delivery dates and programme milestones
• Reporting test progress, quality and risk to programme leadership
• Leading operational readiness and go-live testing alongside warehouse teams

What you’ll bring

• 8+ years in testing, including leading testing on a WMS implementation or distribution centre go-live
• Experience with a Tier 1 WMS such as Blue Yonder (JDA), Manhattan or similar
• Strong functional understanding of warehouse operations: receiving, putaway, waving, picking, packing, replenishment and dispatch
• Proven SIT and UAT management across multiple vendors on large transformation programmes
• Confidence leading a small team and holding the line on quality with senior stakeholders
• Exposure to warehouse automation, WCS or robotics (AutoStore, Knapp, Dematic, Swisslog or similar) highly regarded

Why this role

• This business is generating well over a billion dollars in annual revenue, operates well over 100 sites, and just opened one of the largest flagship stores of its kind in the world. It’s a genuinely exciting time to join.
• It is family-owned, growing fast, and investing seriously in the supply chain behind the brand. Leading testing on a greenfield automated DC is a rare, career-defining programme in the Australian WMS market.
• 12+ month contract running into 2028. Richmond-based, hybrid working.