Senior Test & Release Manager

Telstra is hiring a Senior Test & Release Manager. Level rates it ; you can apply on Telstra.

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Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
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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

How we rate this

Senior Test & Release Manager at Telstra rates 36 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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