EL1 Quality Assurance Engineer, Data Standards Body

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.

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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. GitHub 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 OpenID Connect, OAuth2 or similar.
• Experience working with artefacts such as OpenAPI 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