The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority is the independent statutory authority responsible for regulation of agricultural and veterinary (agvet) chemicals proposed for supply in Australia. The agency performs its role in accordance with the responsibilities outlined in the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 and the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992.

The APVMA is seeking to replace the platform currently providing external portal and internal workflow services for industry to interact electronically with the APVMA for lodgement and assessment of permits, licences, product registrations, variations etc.

This role will be responsible for undertaking the following activities on behalf of the APVMA:

1. Overseeing in close liaison with the supplier the Test Strategy and Plan being developed by the supplier
2. Working with external industry stakeholders to support industry testing activities
3. Developing the Functional, System Integration and User Acceptance Test plans and supporting test scripts
4. Managing and providing Functional and System Integration Testing (SIT) with the supplier and APVMA staff
5. Overseeing the delivery of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with APVMA staff and external stakeholders
6. Triaging issues and defects and managing reporting with the vendor
7. Coordinating testers and oversighting test execution in accordance with the plan and timeframes as specified
8. As required, executing test cases.

Deliverables will include (but not limited to):

1. APVMA Test Strategy
2. Functional Test Plans and test cases
3. System Integration Test Plans and test cases
4. User Acceptance Test Plans and test cases
5. Test scripts
6. Test reports
7. Register of defects
8. Status Reports
9. Executive briefings