Synapse & Data Lake Automation Tester

SYPAQ is an industry leader in C4ISREW and autonomous systems integration, product development, and consulting services, with established engineering and IT teams across projects in Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, and Brisbane. Our rich history of partnering with the Australian Defence, National Security community as well as major Federal Government departments continues to deliver a true sovereign industrial capability through advanced engineering and IT services and solutions. Due to an increased demand within our business, SYPAQ are seeking Automation Testers with experience in Synapse and Data Lake environments. This is a 12-month contract with a 12 month extension option. The opportunity offers a potential start in March 2026. The role is based in Canberra. Overview Our client are seeking to engage one or more Lead Testers with expertise in Synapse and Data Lake environments. The Lead Tester(s) will be responsible for designing, executing, and governing comprehensive testing strategies for data platform solutions, ensuring delivery quality, risk mitigation, and operational readiness across multiple delivery teams. Key Duties And Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Planning: Develop and implement multi-phase, risk-based test strategies aligned to delivery milestones. Set entry/exit criteria, quality gates, and prioritise testing by business risk and data criticality. Negotiate test effort allocation with stakeholders.
• Execution & Governance: Lead disciplined test cycles, enforce gating, manage defect triage, track coverage/readiness, and drive UAT coordination and formal signoffs. Foster collaboration across delivery teams from a test-driven perspective.
• Stakeholder Communication: Tailor communications for executive and technical audiences, explain trade-offs, escalate issues early, and provide concise status and risk mitigation updates.
• Systems Thinking & Initiative: Rapidly understand solution landscapes, anticipate risks (e.g., schema drift, data freshness), and propose pragmatic mitigations.
• Technical Testing Expertise: Validate end-to-end data platform workflows (ingestion, transformation, serving), reconcile control totals, test SLAs/data contracts, and ensure data quality and lineage (completeness, accuracy, timeliness, uniqueness, conformity).
• Performance & Cost Awareness: Plan and interpret performance/load tests, tune resources (DWU/Spark pools), and identify bottlenecks.
• Operational Readiness: Implement observability (logs, metrics, alerts), validate retries/rollback, design smoke/canary tests, and prepare runbooks.
• Framework & Automation: Build reusable test frameworks, embed automation in CI/CD pipelines, and design runtime health/SLA monitoring solutions.

Technical Skills

• Strategic Test Leadership: Risk-based strategy, planning, and stakeholder negotiation.
• Execution & Governance: Test cycle management, defect triage, UAT coordination.
• Communication: Executive and technical communication, risk escalation.
• Systems Thinking: Anticipation and mitigation of technical and business risks.
• Technical Testing: End-to-end platform validation, data quality, lineage

Experience in Synapse and Data Lake environments in a government environment will be highly regarded. The successful applicant must be an Australian Citizen with an ability to obtain baseline clearance. If the opportunity is of interest, please APPLY or contact Ajita Mishra on 0487839703 or amishra@sypaq.com.au for further information. Please note only successful candidates will be contacted. Visit our corporate website for other opportunities with SYPAQ www.sypaq.com.au/careers-portal. Veterans are encouraged to apply ACT License: ACTLHL00001973 QLD License: LHL02458-W2B3Z VIC License: VICLHL03075 SYPAQ’s Culture – Creating A World That Works We take pride in being a 100% Australian family owned business. Our culture and values are important to us, hence we encourage people with same vision to come on board and collaborate for prolific outcomes. We strongly believe in our VALUES

• See something. Do something!
• Achieve more together – share success
• Courageous – be innovative! See the opportunity, manage the risk
• Strive for excellence – master your craft
• We are family – value honesty, respect and compassion