Senior Quality Engineer - Contractor

About us

At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand's leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities. 

Mō te tūranga | About the Role

Actively oversee and participate in the delivery and best practice by designing, developing, maintaining, and executing automation/functional test solutions across the WNZL landscape using the most appropriate tool set, and 'best practice' techniques and agile quality engineering practices.

Providing thought leadership and peer reviews across the WNZL community in regards to design and implementation of testing strategies & solutions and up-skilling and training of peers regardless of discipline.

• Actively participate in the overall delivery, in line with broader technology and business strategies

• Review requirements/user stories and technical documentation, participate and drive workshops to ensure understanding and design of test scenarios

• Educate the wider Business Area on quality and the benefits of different types of testing, ensuring best practice

• Mentor, coach and support peers and less experienced members of the Business Area

• Maintain oversight of and actively support test delivery to ensure we deliver value to our Customers

• Proactively give demonstrations/Show & Tells

• Perform related duties as assigned, within the scope of role and as required by senior leadership

• Provide ‘Best Practice’ oversight and input into the selection, evaluation and implementation of test tools and utilities

• Work with other Engineers to promote the capture and reuse of unit test level scripts, test stubs and drivers and other development test objects

• Provide ongoing through leadership and technical guidance re the practical application and technical tools

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• 5 years+  experience in testing using commercial and/or opensource test tools across the testing pyramid
• Experience with programming languages : Java, TypeScript
• Experience in API automation testing using REST assured/Java/ spring boots
• Experience in Test Automation Framework development and support using BDD.
• Experience delivering major pieces of work in a complex agile/DevOps delivery environment
• Practical experience in the design, implementation and execution of test solutions and frameworks
• Experience in CI/CD e.g. Cloudbees (Jenkins pipeline)
• Experience in participating in a quality engineering community
• Experience in the interpretation of business requirements to determine robust testing scenarios
• Experience with database testing is good to have.
• Experience leading cross-functional squads while collaborating closely with developers to embed shift-left quality practices.