Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Air New Zealand7 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute automation 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 long-term value of test suites.
- Collaborate with architects, software engineers, QA engineers, and business analysts to diagnose issues and improve software design for automation.
- Contribute to the technical direction and roadmap for automation tools and automated testing processes.
- Ensure manual and automated tests follow testing standards, processes, 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 toolsets, test-driven development, and testing technologies.
- Strong experience with Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit, and TestNG.
- Experience with testing, continuous integration, and delivery toolsets to obtain fast quality states.
- Experience mentoring technical colleagues and collaborating across software product disciplines and dependencies.
- Solid knowledge of quality assurance methodologies, best practices, toolsets, automation models, and approaches.
- In-depth understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience working within an Agile team.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Benefits
- The role is based at Air New Zealand’s Auckland Airport Campus office.
- Air New Zealand promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and workplace accessibility, with reasonable accommodations available through the recruitment process.
- Applications close at 11:59pm on 11 November 2026.
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.