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Software Test Lead

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Healthcare-related degree or a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a related field
  • 7+ years of software testing experience
  • Experience in automated testing using Selenium
  • ISTQB or equivalent certifications and experience with Agile software methodologies

Requirements:

  • Lead quality assurance across products and projects, including test planning, execution, and defect tracking to ensure software quality before release.
  • Prepare test plans and approaches, estimate testing efforts, timelines, and resource requirements; identify risks and mitigation strategies.
  • Monitor test progress, ensure proper test coverage (functional, integration, SIT, UAT), review test artifacts, and oversee compliance/certification testing.
  • Collaborate with development and product teams to align quality objectives; drive test automation opportunities and maintain test documentation.

Job description

Do you want a job with a purpose?

And do you want to make healthcare safer, better and more reliable?

Join our Team!

Join us as our Software Test Lead at Dedalus, one of the World’s leading healthcare technology companies, in Australia to do the best work of your career and make a profound impact in providing better care for a healthier planet.

What you’ll achieve

As the Software Test Lead, you will be responsible for leading quality assurance efforts across products and projects, ensuring that all software meets defined quality standards prior to release.

This role encompasses test planning, continuous improvement of testing processes, and hands-on involvement in test execution and test activities.

The Test Lead works closely with development and product teams to ensure alignment on quality objectives and successful delivery of high-quality software solutions making a profound impact throughout the healthcare sector.

You will:

  • Prepare test plans, and test approach for projects and estimate testing efforts, timelines, and resource requirements
  • Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies
  • Monitor test progress to ensure timely delivery and oversee test case design, execution, and defect tracking
  • Ensure proper test coverage (functional, business process, SIT, regression, integration, UAT support), review test artifacts (test cases, scripts, reports) and compliance/ certification testing for quality
  • Conduct testing, troubleshooting and analysis of tasks on various phase(s) of development, including integration, systems testing, interoperability testing.
  • Maintain record of test progress and test results; prepare report as appropriate.
  • Review Software functional designs or user stories
  • Prepare detailed testing documentation, review the test scripts prepared by test team members.
  • Adhere to test disciplines and methodology for Quality assurance
  • Preparation of detailed test status report for stakeholders and preparation of documentation for release of software
  • Look for opportunities to automate and assist Healthcare support as required

Take the next step towards your dream career

At Dedalus Life flows through our software. Every day we do something special by helping caregivers and health professionals deliver better care to their served communities. Take the next step in your career that will make a profound impact. Here’s what you’ll need to succeed:

Essential Requirements

  • Healthcare‑related degree, or a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a related field
  • Experience of working with an offshore development model and distributed team model
  • Experience in automated testing (using Selenium)
  • 7+ years software testing experience
  • Systematic approach to test planning and testing
  • Understanding and working knowledge of systems being developed
  • Experience testing Healthcare related software
  • Agile software methodologies experience
  • ISTQB or equivalent certifications
  • Able to learn and desire to pursue learning opportunities
  • Proven Experience in SQL Server and able to interact with database with Queries and in IIS
  • HL7, FHIR API testing experience
  • Experience Testing Web services and in Integration testing

Desirable Requirements

  • Experience in Testing on Mobile devices
  • Desirable experience using coded –UI and soap UI
  • Hands on experience using TFS/JIRA as Defect tracking tool is desirable
  • Ability to work under pressure, resilient, whilst maintaining flexible and positive approach
  • Able to manage multiple tasks, by swiftly adapting in a rapidly changing environment

We are Dedalus, come join us

Dedalus is committed to providing an engaging, rewarding work experience that reflects the passion our employees bring to our mission of helping clinicians and nurses deliver better care to their served communities.

Our company fosters a culture where employees are encouraged to learn and innovate, and to enable and enhance clinical co-operation and processes while making a meaningful difference for millions of people around the world. Each person is the end point and the starting point of the Group’s activities and the ultimate beneficiary. For this reason, we are so proud of doing our very special jobs each day.

Our company is enriched by a diverse population of 7,600 people in more than 40 countries that work together to innovate and drive better healthcare options for millions of patients around the world. We are the people of Dedalus.

Application closing date: 9th May 2026

Our Diversity & Inclusion Commitment sets out Dedalus’ approach to ensuring respect, inclusion and success for all our colleagues and the wider communities we operate in. It is imperative for us to share our commitment and dedication to ensure an inclusive and diverse workplace. We recognise that we have improvements to make, and, on this journey, we must remain authentic and realistic but also ambitious. We also welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Our diversity & inclusion commitment – Dedalus Global

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