ASX: Powering Australias financial markets

Why join the ASX

When you join ASX youre joining a company with a strong purpose to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role youll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

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are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.

We run critical market infrastructure with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations program delivery financial products investor engagement risk and compliance.

Were proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ inclusion promote gender equality accessibility and wellbeing inspire giving and volunteering and celebrate cultural and religious events creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality were committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Your responsibilities

How we do things at ASX is just as important as what we do.
As a People Leader at ASX you will not only be responsible for the core duties outlined below but also for providing leadership mentoring team members and fostering a collaborative inclusive team environment that encourages innovation and accountability as articulated in our Leadership Principles.

Core responsibilities

• Develop and maintain fit-for-purpose portfolio test strategies and test plans across platforms programs and delivery streams ensuring they address inherent delivery technology operational and regulatory risks.

• Lead and support test planning and execution across portfolio capabilities including integration platforms data platforms APIs enterprise systems and cross-platform dependencies.

• Oversee specialist testing disciplines across the portfolio including non-functional testing security testing automated regression performance assurance and alignment with DevSecOps practices.

• Facilitate metrics and data-driven reporting on software quality delivery readiness defect trends automation coverage environment stability and adherence to agreed test strategies.

• Help senior stakeholders interpret quality metrics and measures providing clear recommendations and articulating risks trade-offs and delivery impacts based on evidence.

• Continually monitor report and manage new or changing risks that may impact portfolio test strategy execution release readiness or operational resilience.

• Contribute to ASX Quality Engineering and Testing capability practice metrics and reporting measuring alignment to enterprise standards and the effectiveness of continuous improvement initiatives.

• Build and continually improve a mature contemporary portfolio test capability by uplifting automation service virtualization test data regression coverage and quality engineering practices.

• Communicate effectively with Application Support Managers Project Managers Engineering Managers Delivery Managers BA Managers Development Leads Test Managers Product Owners and Business Operations representatives.

• Lead diverse teams to high performance by setting clear expectations building capability encouraging ownership and fostering collaboration across technology and business stakeholders.

Your experience and qualifications

Skills Required:

• Test Planning and Execution Plans and drives testing activities across all stages and iterations of portfolio product system and service development including integration platforms data platforms APIs enterprise systems and cross-platform delivery dependencies.

• Testing Leadership & Guidance Provides authoritative advice and guidance on test planning and execution adapting appropriate testing methods automated tools and techniques to solve complex testing and tooling challenges.

• Standards Risk & Quality Assurance Measures and monitors adherence to testing standards assesses risks and takes preventative action to protect delivery quality platform resilience and release readiness.

• Continuous Improvement Identifies improvements and contributes to organizational policies standards and guidelines for testing quality engineering automation and Integration Platform assurance practices.

• Automation & Engineering Practices Designs codes verifies tests documents amends and refactors moderately complex programs or scripts applying agreed standards and tools to achieve well-engineered outcomes.

• Delivery Monitoring & Issue Resolution Monitors and reports on testing progress identifies issues related to software development and Integration Platform delivery activities and proposes practical solutions to resolve them.

• Review & Collaboration Collaborates in reviews of work with engineers test managers product owners delivery leads and support teams to improve quality outcomes and strengthen shared accountability.

• Methods & Tools Adoption Provides advice guidance and expertise to promote adoption of testing methods and tools ensuring adherence to agreed policies standards and quality engineering practices.

• People Leadership Forms maintains and leads workgroups and individuals to achieve organisational and portfolio objectives promoting collaboration accountability and high performance across multiple delivery teams.

• Objective Setting & Delegation Determines and delegates objectives and task responsibilities to individuals or teams including people management responsibilities where appropriate.

• Performance & Capability Management Sets quality performance and capability targets in line with organizational goals monitors performance and working relationships and provides effective feedback to address individual issues.

• Team Development Encourages individual development of skills and capabilities aligned to team and personal goals adjusting workload targets and team capacity to support growth and sustainable delivery.

• Organizational People Processes Plays an active role in formal organizational processes such as recruitment reward promotion and disciplinary procedures.

• Resourcing & Demand Management Plans and manages the acquisition and deployment of testing resources to meet Integration Platform delivery priorities demand and ongoing operational needs.

• Resourcing Processes & Compliance Defines and manages resourcing processes and tools advises on available options customizes resourcing approaches and ensures adherence to standards statutory or external regulations and codes of practice.

• External Engagement Engages with external parties in support of Integration Platform test resourcing plans specialist capability needs tooling support and delivery outcomes.

• Resourcing Improvement Measures the effectiveness of resourcing processes and implements improvements to strengthen capacity planning capability coverage and delivery responsiveness.

• Stakeholder Engagement Identifies the communication and relationship needs of stakeholder groups and translates stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.

• Stakeholder Communication Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders acting as a trusted point of contact for Integration Platform testing risks readiness and quality outcomes.

• Engagement Strategy & Feedback Develops maintains and works to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans providing informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.

• Decision Support & Information Sharing Facilitates business decision-making processes by capturing and disseminating technical and business information relevant to Integration Platform quality delivery and operational readiness.

Must Have

• Minimum of 15 years experience in quality engineering and test management across large complex and regulated technology portfolios preferably within financial services.

• Proven experience defining and leading end-to-end test strategies test planning governance and execution across multiple platforms programs and delivery streams.

• Strong expertise in test delivery management automation uplift defect governance release readiness assessment and quality reporting across waterfall agile and DevSecOps delivery models.

• Demonstrated capability in establishing and maturing portfolio-level test governance standards metrics risk management and continuous improvement practices.

• Solid understanding of modern engineering practices cloud platforms data platforms integration technologies CI/CD pipelines test automation and non-functional testing disciplines.

• Experience leading test teams managing capability uplift and influencing senior stakeholders across multiple Lines of Business technology groups and delivery partners.

• Comfortable presenting portfolio quality insights risks recommendations and delivery confidence to senior executives and contributing to strategic decision-making.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing AI-based test automation solutions for Integration Platforms including intelligent test case generation self-healing automation automated regression optimisation and risk-based test selection.

• Hands-on experience applying AI-assisted automation to Confluent Kafka and integration technologies including event-driven testing message validation schema compatibility data flow assurance API testing and end-to-end integration regression.

• Awareness of latest industry innovations in test automation including generative AI agentic testing model-based testing synthetic test data generation service virtualisation contract testing and CI/CD-integrated quality gates.

• Passionate about driving innovation in quality engineering by adopting modern automation frameworks AI-enabled tooling observability-led testing and continuous improvement practices to uplift Integration Platform test maturity.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills capabilities and experience and how youll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you dont meet all the criteria of this role.

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At ASX Group our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.