Optima Test Lead (Melbourne)

Employment Type : 12 Month Fixed Term Hours : 38 hours per week Upload with Application : Resume, cover letter, and all relevant qualifications Location : Mercy Corporate Office, Richmond Contact : Kerri-Ann Campbell About the opportunity As Optima Test Lead, you'll use your enterprise testing expertise and coaching ability to lead the quality assurance workstream for Mercy Health's Workforce Management Replacement Project – implementing Optima across approximately 9,000-10,000 employees. You'll design and execute the full testing strategy across system, integration, parallel payroll, and UAT phases, while coaching a matrix team of subject matter experts through structured testing practice. What you'll bring
- Demonstrated test leadership on large enterprise system implementations
- Experience leading and coaching non‑specialist testers (payroll/rostering SMEs, operational stakeholders) through structured testing practice
- Experience across complex integration landscapes – particularly WFM/rostering, HRIS, and payroll systems
- Experience defining and executing parallel payroll or equivalent end‑to‑end financial verification testing
- Robust working knowledge of testing methodologies, defect management, and traceability
- Hands‑on experience with JIRA for test management and defect tracking (or comparable platforms)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to translate technical and Award/EBA detail to operational stakeholders
- Hands‑on, pragmatic approach with the ability to operate in a fluid, iterative project environment Strongly Preferred
- Healthcare and/or aged care sector experience, including familiarity with Modern Awards and EBAs for a clinical workforce
- Experience implementing or replacing workforce management/rostering platforms (Optima, Kronos, Humanforce, UKG, RosterOn, etc.) Evidence required
- A current Police Record Check. Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare? Join us and make a meaningful difference in people's lives – and your career. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi‑wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture. We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present. The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rsawn