Test Lead

About the role

Our client is a well-known, fast-growing premium retail brand, currently building a brand new National Distribution Centre that will take its warehouse operation from fully manual to semi-automated, with robotic picking and packing.

They’re looking for a Test Lead to own testing across the programme, leading a small SIT team through integration testing between core retail systems, Blue Yonder WMS and the new robotics platform, and on through to go-live.
 
What you’ll be doing
  • Owning the test strategy, test plans and entry and exit criteria across SIT, UAT and end-to-end testing
  • Leading and coaching a small team of SIT Test Analysts, while staying hands-on where needed
  • Running defect triage across the business, the WMS team and an international automation partner
  • Aligning test phases with vendor delivery dates and programme milestones
  • Reporting test progress, quality and risk to programme leadership
  • Leading operational readiness and go-live testing alongside warehouse teams
What you’ll bring
  • 8+ years in testing, including leading testing on a WMS implementation or distribution centre go-live
  • Experience with a Tier 1 WMS such as Blue Yonder (JDA), Manhattan or similar
  • Strong functional understanding of warehouse operations: receiving, putaway, waving, picking, packing, replenishment and dispatch
  • Proven SIT and UAT management across multiple vendors on large transformation programmes
  • Confidence leading a small team and holding the line on quality with senior stakeholders
  • Exposure to warehouse automation, WCS or robotics (AutoStore, Knapp, Dematic, Swisslog or similar) highly regarded
Why this role
  • This business is generating well over a billion dollars in annual revenue, operates well over 100 sites, and just opened one of the largest flagship stores of its kind in the world. It’s a genuinely exciting time to join.
  • It is family-owned, growing fast, and investing seriously in the supply chain behind the brand. Leading testing on a greenfield automated DC is a rare, career-defining programme in the Australian WMS market.
  • 12+ month contract running into 2028. Richmond-based, hybrid working.
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