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Name Quality Architect Site / Location Melbourne Support Centre Ref # 12375107 Entity Australia Post Opening Date 29-Aug-2025 Suburb Richmond Work Type Permanent Full TimeDescription & Requirements
Help us deliver a better tomorrow
Australia Post is delivering for all Australians. From the vehicles that we drive, to the small businesses that make our communities thrive. We’re delivering for the environment, for our communities, for our customers and for our people. We’re moving forward and we want you to come along for the ride.
Help us deliver like never before
We're hiring for a Quality Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping our quality engineering strategy. In this role, you’ll drive the adoption and implementation of Shift Left quality principles and best practices across project teams, ensuring business value through collaboration and innovation. Working closely with our vendor partners, you’ll help deliver robust testing services across the enterprise, enabling rapid, efficient, and confident delivery of change. We’re looking for a strategic thinker with an optimization mindset, proven ability to influence outcomes, and experience embedding productivity into test strategies and approaches.
Reporting directly to the Test Portfolio Manager, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact on how quality is delivered at scale.
This is a unique opportunity to lead the adoption of modern quality engineering practices, champion Shift Left principles, and shape testing strategies that enable Australia Post to deliver change faster, smarter, and with confidence.
What you’ll deliver with us
- Lead quality delivery practices and services across portfolios, ensuring cost efficiency and continuous improvement.
- Drive transformation of testing services by embedding Shift Left principles and integrating quality into CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop and implement strategies to improve system stability, test efficiency, and overall quality outcomes.
- Identify quality risks and bottlenecks, propose solutions, and implement improvements to enhance productivity.
- Collaborate with delivery teams, project managers, and business units to ensure visibility and alignment on quality activities.
- Provide governance, reporting, and strategic guidance on QA best practices, tools, and standards across projects.
About You
You’re a strategic Quality Architect with deep expertise in testing frameworks, governance, and automation. You excel at defining testing strategies across multiple projects and influencing teams to adopt best practices. With a strong focus on optimization and reusability, you champion Shift Left principles to embed quality early in the SDLC. Your exceptional communication skills enable you to articulate strategies clearly and align stakeholders on quality objectives.
You’ll also bring
- Proven leadership and technical project planning & management skills
- Influence the building of stakeholder confidence on delivering quality outcomes for their programs / projects.
- Extensive experience working within a Technology function in a large, complex organisation with proven experience leading testing teams
- Highly developed communication skills both written and oral
- A natural curiosity to enhance testing capability and introduce better ways of testing.
How we’ll deliver for you
At Australia Post, we believe in investing in our people and fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment. Here’s how we’ll deliver for you:
- Career Development: We offer opportunities for professional growth and development, helping you to build a rewarding career.
- Work-Life Balance: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements to support your personal and professional needs.
- Employee Wellbeing: We prioritize the wellbeing of our employees, providing resources and support to ensure a healthy and safe work environment.
We’re delivering together
At Australia Post, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate, live and gather as employees.
We believe our business should reflect the diverse communities we operate in and are proud to be an inclusive workplace for people from all walks of life. We encourage applications from people of all ages, genders and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, People with Disability, LGBTQIA+ and Refugees.
We are one of the largest organisations in Australia to successfully achieve Disability Confident Recruiter status. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process and workplace for those living with a disability and are committed to reviewing and removing bias in our processes to create a gender-equitable recruitment experience and workplace. If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact our Diversity & Inclusion team on [email protected].
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