Automation QA Engineer — FinCrime & NetReveal Focus

Westpac New Zealand; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand is seeking an automation-led Quality Engineering leader to design, develop, maintain and execute automated test solutions across UI, API, integration and data layers. You will provide thought leadership, coaching and peer review across the Quality Engineering community while ensuring Financial Crime solutions, including NetReveal, meet business, regulatory and operational requirements.

You will define test strategies, lead functional, integration, performance and UAT testing,

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ recent and relevant experience in Quality Engineering or Testing.
• Experience defining and implementing quality engineering best practices.
• Experience coaching, mentoring and providing quality reviews.
• Strong, recent hands-on automation experience is essential, including automation framework design, development and maintenance, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• API, integration and data testing experience, including automated API validation.
• Strong SQL skills, with experience in data validation, reconciliation, ETL and data-pipeline testing.
• Risk-based test design, end-to-end traceability and defect management.
• Experience using XML and XPath for test design, validation and automation.
• Experience with Git and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on programming or scripting experience in TypeScript, JavaScript and Python.
• Experience automating UI, API, integration and data-layer testing.
• Knowledge of ISO payment message types and associated data validation.
• NetReveal domain knowledge and experience testing NetReveal solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead test strategies, quality standards and release acceptance criteria.
• Plan, coordinate and execute functional, integration, regression, performance, UAT and operational readiness testing.
• Review requirements, user stories, technical documentation and solution designs to ensure testability and quality outcomes.
• Provide quality leadership throughout solution design, delivery and release activities.
• Maintain oversight of test delivery and quality outcomes, proactively identifying and managing quality risks.
• Coach, mentor and educate team members and stakeholders on quality engineering practices, test automation and quality standards.
• Actively contribute to the Quality Engineering community by sharing knowledge, standards and best practices.
• Validate changes impacting AML monitoring, CRA, Transaction Monitoring or Sanctions Screening and regulatory reporting.
• Verify end-to-end customer, account, transaction and alert processing.
• Perform data reconciliation, integration, API validation and testing across source systems, data flows and NetReveal.
• Validate that Financial Crime controls, detection models and system changes operate in accordance with business and regulatory requirements.
• Identify quality risks, edge cases and control gaps that may impact compliance, operational resilience or customer outcomes.
• Design, develop and maintain robust automated test frameworks, test solutions and regression suites across UI, API, integration and data layers.
• Lead defect triage, production incident investigation, root cause analysis and remediation validation.
• Drive continuous improvement in testing efficiency, coverage, quality metrics and engineering practices.
• Promote shift-left quality practices, automation-first test approaches, CI/CD integration and re-use of testing assets across teams.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, using Git-based source control and quality gates to provide fast, reliable feedback.
• Produce audit-ready testing evidence and maintain end-to-end traceability.
• Support regulatory reviews, audits, compliance activities and risk assessments.
• Assess release readiness, quality risks and deployment impacts, providing recommendations for production releases.
• Ensure changes align with governance, compliance and operational readiness requirements.
• Support quality reporting, test metrics and quality artefacts to enable informed delivery and risk decisions.

Skills

Automation framework design

CI/CD pipeline integration

API testing

SQL data validation

Git/version control

TypeScript/JavaScript/Python

UI/API/integration testing

Quality engineering best practices

Coaching/mentoring

NetReveal domain knowledge

Tools

NetReveal

Job description

Westpac New Zealand is seeking an automation-led Quality Engineering leader to design, develop, maintain and execute automated test solutions across UI, API, integration and data layers. You will provide thought leadership, coaching and peer review across the Quality Engineering community while ensuring Financial Crime solutions, including NetReveal, meet business, regulatory and operational requirements.

You will define test strategies, lead functional, integration, performance and UAT testing,