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Chadstone, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsibilities* Proactively identify, assess, and resolve data quality issues, collaborating with stakeholders to minimize impact and prevent recurrence.* Contribute to the development and implementation of a comprehensive data governance framework, including data quality standards, monitoring processes, and best practices.* Actively participate in and lead data governance initiatives, fostering collaboration between data producers and consumers to enhance overall data… Show more Responsibilities* Proactively identify, assess, and resolve data quality issues, collaborating with stakeholders to minimize impact and prevent recurrence.* Contribute to the development and implementation of a comprehensive data governance framework, including data quality standards, monitoring processes, and best practices.* Actively participate in and lead data governance initiatives, fostering collaboration between data producers and consumers to enhance overall data quality.* Validate and ensure the quality of production changes to the reporting platform.* Communicate data quality status and trends to senior stakeholders, providing insights and recommendations for improvement.Achievements* Developed and delivered data steward training for data quality incident management and for data lineage, supporting the on-boarding of the governance framework.* Developed the Data Quality Management standard, contributing to the establishment of the enterprise data governance framework.* Embedded quality assurance practices on the legacy data platform, eliminating medium and high impact incidents resulting from production changes.* Populated enterprise data catalogue with data platform lineage, supporting analysis for data incident response and data re-platforming project, saving many hours of effort tracing through transformation code to understand lineage Show less

Responsibilities* Manages a team of data architects, QA engineers, and operational staff. Mentors QA engineers, and operational staff.* Oversees all aspects of testing, including planning, strategy, resources, budget, timeline, deliverables, and client relationships.* Ensures the integrity of testing and acceptance activities, provides expert guidance on test planning, design, and execution. Creates traceability records, interprets and executes complex test scripts,… Show more Responsibilities* Manages a team of data architects, QA engineers, and operational staff. Mentors QA engineers, and operational staff.* Oversees all aspects of testing, including planning, strategy, resources, budget, timeline, deliverables, and client relationships.* Ensures the integrity of testing and acceptance activities, provides expert guidance on test planning, design, and execution. Creates traceability records, interprets and executes complex test scripts, documents results, and maintains an issue register.* Drives the delivery of high-quality changes to data platforms through analysis, scripting, and thorough testing processes, ensuring alignment with university policies and procedures.* Tracks progress against quality and performance goals, identifies areas for improvement, and fosters effective teamwork through specialist advice and support.* Maintains, updates, and communicates quality standards, actively seeking and implementing innovative techniques to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in line with industry best practices.Achievements* Created personally identifiable information and sensitivity level data classification decision tree enabling accurate and efficient classification of data ingested into the Lakehouse data platform under development.* Provided data engineering and quality assurance skills to the ‘tiger team’ established to generate datasets supporting strategic and operational decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic, with acknowledgement from the Monash University Vice Chancellor of the contribution of this team to the University's effective pandemic response.* Implemented data quality monitoring to ensure legacy data warehouse platform upgrade success, visualising discrepancies in parallel runs enabling data engineers to quickly identify and resolve migration issues. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities* Leads a team of testing specialists in the functional and performance testing of business applications.* Defines and communicates the test strategy for projects. Selects project testing standards for all phases, influencing all parties to conform to those standards.* Manages all phases of testing, including plans, resources , costs, timescales, test deliverables and ability to audit.* Provide specialist advice and guidance on any aspect of test… Show more Responsibilities* Leads a team of testing specialists in the functional and performance testing of business applications.* Defines and communicates the test strategy for projects. Selects project testing standards for all phases, influencing all parties to conform to those standards.* Manages all phases of testing, including plans, resources , costs, timescales, test deliverables and ability to audit.* Provide specialist advice and guidance on any aspect of test planning and execution.* Identifies process improvements, contributes to corporate testing standards and definition of best practice.* Assesses suppliers' development and testing capabilities.Achievements* Developed and executed performance testing for the department’s document management system upgrade on zero budget, identifying pre-deployment configuration issues, and a failed indexing service on night of deployment.* Created and documented automated testing framework targeting complex line-of-business application, reducing typical regression test execution times from over 5 days to less than 4 hours.* Implemented ad-hoc synthetic monitoring solution to provide evidence of performance issues arising from the upgrade of a business critical application, enabling the department to pursue remediation by vendor, and monitor progress of the remediation.* Represented the department on the weekly Technical Control Board, ensuring potential technical risks from upcoming system changes by the shared services provider were managed proactively. Show less

Tasmania, Australia

Launceston, Australia

Launceston, Australia