Testing Specialist

Testing Specialist - Modern ERP/ Specialiste des tests, ERPmoderne

• Play an integral role in Modern ERP

• Gain exposure to more areas of the business and diversify your skillsets within Rio

• These positions will be fixed term contracts until December 2025 with likely extension into 2026.

• Can be based out of the following hubs: Brisbane, Perth, Singapore, Montreal, or Salt Lake City.

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About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Testing Specialist to join the Modern ERP program.

The Testing Specialist will manage and delivery quality assurance for the programme for all testing implementations.

This is a fixed term opportunity that will allow you to take accountability of the test planning management and validation; integration between modules and managing all risks and issues in relation to testing. You will be joining a large team dedicated to the Modern ERP Programme within Technology Platforms.

This is a great opportunity to champion and establish best practice as Rio Tinto commences the Modern ERP program for our global operations and will undoubtedly be a rewarding opportunity.

Reporting to the Platform Technical Principal Advisor and working in a collaborative and supportive environment within our Technology Platforms division, you will deliver to these key responsibilities:

• Test Planning: Develop and maintain detailed testing plans, including timelines, milestones, resource requirements, and risk mitigation strategies, ensuring a smooth transition from legacy systems to new systems or upgraded platforms. Design and implement these test strategies for S4/HANA implementation.

• Test Management: Oversee end-to-end testing processes, including automation, performance, and integration testing.

• Collaboration & Coordination: Coordinate across technical teams, project management, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure that all required components (infrastructure, applications, data) are aligned and ready for deployment.

• Risk & Issue Management: Identify potential risks and issues related to cutover and deployment activities, developing mitigation strategies and contingency plans to address them proactively.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as the primary point of contact for all testing activities, maintaining clear communication with stakeholders to manage expectations and provide updates on progress, risks, and resolutions.

• Real-Time System Transition: Ensure that testing activities are executed in real-time environments with minimal disruption to ongoing business operations, focusing on system uptime and data integrity.

• Testing & Validation: Collaborate with QA and testing teams to ensure thorough testing (functional, performance, and user acceptance) of the system prior to deployment. Ensure post-deployment validation processes are followed to confirm the success of the testing. Log track and verify defects facilitating resolution with relevant teams.

• Documentation: Maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation of the testing process, including deployment schedules, issue logs, rollback strategies, and final validation reports

• Go-Live Support: Support the technical support during go-live, ensuring rapid issue resolution and providing on-call support for critical incidents during and after deployment.

• Post-Implementation Review: Conduct post-implementation reviews, gather feedback, identify lessons learned, and implement continuous improvements in the deployment and cutover process.

What you'll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.7+ years of experience.

• Strong understanding of systems architecture, network infrastructure, and real-time application environments.

• Proven experience in leading large-scale system transitions or testing activities, including managing complex deployments with interdependencies.

• Experience of testing automation tools (Tricentis) is desirable.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

We are finding better ways to simplify our operations, expand our capability and improve productivity, to do this we are embarking on an exciting journey that will transition us to a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform moving from the current technology (currently Rio Tinto Business Systems) to a new digitally enabled S/4 Hana and application ecosystem.

An effective RTBS is a key enabler for Best Operator, given 30-60 per cent of our frontline time is spent in the system. To deliver this change we must ensure that we work closely with each of the Product Group's (PGs) and Functions to modernise how we operate the system. Consequently, this is not a technology-led programme, it is business-led.

Where you'll be working

The newly created ERP Implementation Program team within the Group Finance function will bring together a variety of specialist skillsets to shape our digital future and simplify, automate, modernise and improve our ways of working globally.

Specialiste des tests, ERPmoderne

• Faites partie prenante du programme ERPmoderne.

• Familiarisez-vous avec d'autres secteurs de l'entreprise et diversifiez vos competences au sein de RioTinto.

• Contrat a duree determinee qui s'echelonne jusqu'en decembre2025, avec possibilite de prolongation en 2026.

• Exercez vos fonctions dans l'un des centres (hubs) suivants: Brisbane, Perth, Singapour, Montreal ou Salt Lake City.

Au sujet du poste

Trouver de meilleures facons de fournir les materiaux dont le monde a besoin.

Nous sommes a la recherche d'un ou d'une specialiste des tests dans le cadre du programme ERPmoderne. La personne titulaire du poste gerera et fournira l'assurance qualite du programme pour toutes les mises en uvre de tests.

Il s'agit d'une occasion a duree determinee qui vous permettra de prendre en main la gestion et la validation de la planification des tests, l'integration entre les modules et la gestion de l'ensemble des risques et des problemes lies aux tests. Vous vous joindrez a une vaste equipe consacree au programme ERPmoderne, au sein des Plateformes technologiques.

C'est une excellente occasion de promouvoir et d'etablir des pratiques exemplaires a l'heure ou RioTinto lance le programme ERPmoderne a l'echelle de ses etablissements mondiaux, ce qui presente des possibilites des plus gratifiantes.

Relevant du conseiller principal ou de la conseillere principale, Plateformes technologiques, et travaillant dans un environnement collaboratif et axe sur le soutien au sein de notre division Plateformes technologiques, vous aurez les responsabilites cles suivantes:

• Planification des tests: elaborer et maintenir des plans de test detailles, comprenant des calendriers, des jalons, les ressources necessaires et des strategies d'attenuation des risques, afin d'assurer une transition en douceur des systemes existants vers les nouveaux systemes ou les plateformes mises a niveau. Concevoir et mettre en uvre ces strategies de test pour la mise en uvre de S4/HANA.

• Gestion des tests: superviser les processus de test de bout en bout, y compris les tests d'automatisation, de performance et d'integration.

• Collaboration et coordination: coordonner les equipes techniques, la gestion de projet, les operations et les parties prenantes de l'entreprise afin de garantir que tous les composants requis (infrastructures, applications, donnees) sont alignes et prets a etre deployes.

• Gestion des risques et des problemes: reperer les risques et problemes potentiels lies aux activites de transition et de deploiement, et elaborer des strategies d'attenuation et des plans d'urgence pour y faire face de maniere proactive.

• Engagement des parties prenantes: servir de point de contact principal pour toutes les activites de test, maintenir une communication claire avec les parties prenantes afin de gerer les attentes et fournir des mises a jour sur l'avancement, les risques et les resolutions.

• Transition du systeme en temps reel: s'assurer que les activites de test sont executees dans des environnements en temps reel avec un minimum de perturbation des activites commerciales courantes, en mettant l'accent sur la disponibilite du systeme et l'integrite des donnees.

• Tests et validation: collaborer avec les equipes chargees de l'assurance qualite et des tests afin de garantir que le systeme a fait l'objet de tests approfondis (aspect fonctionnel, performance et acceptation par les utilisateurs) avant son deploiement. Veiller a ce que les processus de validation post-deploiement soient respectes afin de confirmer la reussite des tests. Consigner, suivre et verifier les defauts afin de faciliter leur resolution avec les equipes concernees.

• Documentation: tenir a jour une documentation precise et complete du processus de test, y compris les calendriers de deploiement, les journaux des problemes, les strategies de restauration et les rapports de validation finale.

• Soutien a la mise en service: soutien technique pendant la mise en service, resolution rapide des problemes et assistance telephonique en cas d'incidents critiques pendant et apres le deploiement.

• Revue post-mise en uvre: realiser des examens apres la mise en uvre, recueillir des commentaires, definir les enseignements a tirer et mettre en uvre des ameliorations continues dans le processus de deploiement et de transition.

Votre contribution

• Engagement envers votre securite et celle de votre equipe.

• Baccalaureat en technologies de l'information, en informatique, en ingenierie ou dans un domaine connexe.

• Au moins 7ans d'experience.

• Solide comprehension de l'architecture des systemes, de l'infrastructure reseau et des environnements d'applications en temps reel.

• Experience averee dans la direction de transitions ou d'activites de test a grande echelle, y compris la gestion de deploiements complexes comportant des interdependances.

• Experience des outils d'automatisation des tests (Tricentis), un atout.

• Solides aptitudes pour la resolution de problemes et l'analyse.

Nous cherchons toujours de meilleures facons de simplifier nos activites, d'etoffer nos capacites et d'ameliorer notre productivite. Pour ce faire, nous entamons un parcours stimulant de transition vers une plateforme de progiciel de gestion integre (ERP) moderne, dans le cadre duquel nous passerons de la technologie actuelle (la Solution d'affaires de RioTinto ou RTBS) a un nouveau systeme adapte a l'ere numerique (S/4 HANA) et a un nouvel ecosysteme d'applications.

Considerant que le personnel de premiere ligne passe de 30 a 60% de son temps dans le systeme RTBS, l'efficacite de celui-ci est essentielle a nos efforts visant a devenir le meilleur exploitant minier. Pour mener a bien ce changement, nous devons collaborer etroitement avec chacun des groupes de produits et des fonctions afin de moderniser notre facon d'exploiter le systeme. Par consequent, le programme n'est pas axe sur la technologie, mais plutot sur les besoins d'affaires.

Emplacement du poste

L'equipe nouvellement cree du programme de mise en uvre du progiciel de gestion integre (ERP), au sein de la fonction Finances du Groupe, regroupera une panoplie de competences diversifiees en vue de faconner notre avenir numerique ainsi que de simplifier, d'automatiser, de moderniser et d'ameliorer nos facons de faire a l'echelle mondiale.

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs - striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can't do it on our own, so we're focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.