ICT Support and Test Engineers nec (ANZSCO 263299)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is ICT Support and Test Engineers nec on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for ICT Support and Test Engineers nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACS assesses this as its explicit catch-all for the support-and-test cluster: the lead definition states these engineers "develop procedures and strategies to support, create, maintain and manage technical quality assurance processes and guidelines and systems infrastructure, investigate, analyse and resolve system problems" — language that deliberately blends ICT Quality Assurance Engineer's process-audit wording with ICT Support Engineer's problem-solving wording into one description, which is exactly why the code is "nec," not elsewhere classified.

Where these applications come unstuck

Choosing this code because your role does not cleanly match one of the other three is a legitimate reason, but it works both ways: nominating it to avoid demonstrating a closer fit to a specific neighbour, when your actual duties plainly sit under ICT Quality Assurance Engineer, ICT Systems Test Engineer, or ICT Support Engineer instead, invites exactly the mismatch scrutiny a catch-all code attracts. Your reference letter needs to show why your work genuinely blends QA process work and hands-on support in proportions that don't match either code alone, not simply that you weren't sure which to pick.

An honest read on this pathway

This code carries STSOL and CSOL, the same six-visa reach as ICT Quality Assurance Engineer and ICT Systems Test Engineer, so it is a genuinely open pathway rather than a lesser fallback — the only cost is that its blended, catch-all wording gives an assessor more room to judge fit than the tightly-scoped codes around it do. It is the right code for a role that authentically spans QA and support, not a safer default for an unclear one.

Assembling an ACS application? ACS wants employment evidence that lines up exactly with the dates and duties you claim elsewhere. The Skilled Visa EOI Organiser keeps your claims consistent across the skills assessment, EOI and Form 80 — inconsistencies between them are a common cause of delay.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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