Quality Assurance Engineer

EL1 Quality Assurance Engineer, Data Standards Body

Role at Commonwealth Treasury within the Data Standards Body (DSB) to deliver high quality regulatory standards across government.

• Key Duties
• Design, maintain and execute automated and manual test suites to validate standards changes, reference implementations and other artefacts.
• Develop test strategies, regression frameworks and data‑driven test harnesses using modern automation tooling to align testing activities with DSB’s strategic objectives.
• Assess and ensure quality of standards‑related artefacts and documentation beyond platforms, tools or code.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, engineers, analysts and implementation‑support teams to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, support change impact analysis and embed quality assurance best‑practices throughout standards delivery.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, documentation and overall governance of the standards development and delivery service.
• Support planning, estimation and continuous improvement initiatives across the DSB.
• Additional Responsibilities
• Define repeatable test cases, validation/acceptance criteria and non‑functional testing approaches.
• Ensure traceability between standards requirements and test coverage.
• Identify quality risks, inconsistencies, defects and gaps in standards.
• Support continuous integration of automated tests.

Desirable Qualifications / Experience

• Industry experience establishing or maturing QA frameworks, governance or quality gates using Agile quality‑assurance methodologies (Shift‑left testing, Risk‑based testing, BDD etc).
• Substantial experience in quality assurance and testing for software, APIs or digital services, including designing and executing test strategies.
• Practical experience with automation testing (particularly at the API or integration level) and familiarity with modern testing tools and scripting.
• Experience deriving test cases and coverage from requirements or specifications (e. g. standards, schemas, designs) and thinking through edge cases to ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Experience producing and maintaining clear test documentation (test plans, test cases, regression suites, defect reports) and ensuring traceability between requirements and tests.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills to validate requirements defined as flows, claims and behavioural rules as well as API Schemas, with particular attention to accuracy, reliability and consistency.
• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills to translate complex technical requirements and explain findings, risks and recommendations to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary, cross‑functional environment and manage competing priorities.
• Comfortable working in a complex, regulatory environment.
• Preferred Experience
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines or test infrastructure (e. g. Git Hub Actions, AWS/Azure Pipelines).
• Experience designing or maintaining test harnesses for conformance or compliance testing within regulated ecosystems.
• Experience testing standards‑based systems using protocols such as Open ID Connect, OAuth2 or similar.
• Experience working with artefacts such as Open API Specifications, JSON Schema, conformance suites or similar.
• Experience or familiarity with Digital ID, CDR or similar identity and data‑sharing ecosystems or regulatory domains.
• Interest in digital regulation, technical standards and implementation support for industry.
• Employment Details
• Seniority level: Not applicable
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Quality Assurance and Engineering
• Industries: Government Administration
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