Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Air New Zealand4 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Use agile and lean methods and participate throughout the development process from inception through release.
- Design, develop, and execute automated test scenarios from functional and technical requirements and change requests.
- Maintain, monitor, and refactor automation and regression test suites.
- Apply software engineering principles to test engineering and improve the ongoing value of test suites.
- Collaborate with architects, software engineers, QA professionals, and business analysts to diagnose issues and improve software design for automation.
- Contribute to the strategic direction and technical roadmap of the software automation toolset and automated testing processes.
- Ensure manual and automated tests follow testing processes, standards, and guidelines.
- Facilitate user acceptance testing before deployment.
- Coach and mentor QA engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as a Senior QA Automation professional in a technology business environment.
- Significant software testing experience and practical experience developing test strategies in complex technology environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java automation frameworks, continuous integration and delivery, test-driven development, and testing technologies.
- Strong experience with test automation tools and frameworks including Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit, and TestNG.
- Experience using testing and continuous integration and delivery toolsets to obtain fast quality states.
- Experience mentoring technical colleagues.
- Experience collaborating effectively across software product team disciplines and intra-team dependencies.
- Solid knowledge of quality assurance methodologies, best practices, toolsets, automation models, and approaches.
- In-depth understanding of the software development lifecycle and first-hand experience working in an Agile team.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Benefits
- Role based at Air New Zealand’s Auckland Airport Campus office.
- Applications close on 27 September 2026.
- Air New Zealand is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and offers reasonable accommodations during the recruitment and selection process.
About Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand is the flag carrier airline of New Zealand, headquartered in Auckland, operating domestic and international passenger and cargo services across the Pacific, Asia, and North America. Publicly listed on the NZX and majority-owned by the New Zealand Government, it also runs the Airpoints loyalty program and ancillary travel services; the company traces its origins to 1940 (as TEAL) and adopted the Air New Zealand name in 1965.