Enterprise Test lead

ASB Bank; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Southern Cross Health Insurance

You-do-you Leave

Wellbeing allowance

AIA Vitality

Staff Banking Benefits

Job summary

ASB Bank is seeking an Enterprise Test Lead to drive testing across large-scale payment platforms within the Payments Tribe. You will lead squads, shape test strategies, and ensure end-to-end quality in complex environments while mentoring teams and aligning with stakeholders.

You'll work in an agile, cross-functional setup, building automation and non‑functional testing approaches, and reporting on test status, risks and progress across programmes to enable secure, performant payment

Qualifications

• Proven testing leadership across large or complex projects or programmes.
• Experience with functional, system, integration, API, end-to-end, automation and performance testing.
• Ability to manage and coordinate end-to-end testing across multiple squads and systems.
• Experience with test estimating, negotiating and prioritising work.
• Mentoring and guiding on testing standards and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Create agile testing strategies and plans.
• Foster proactive and continuous improvements within the testing community.
• Work with key stakeholders for end‑to‑end testing and obtaining sign‑off.
• Build and support test automation.
• Build and support performance testing.
• Review requirements and specifications.
• Verifying and validating functionality being developed.
• Analysing and reporting test results.
• Lead testing within large programmes and report status.

Skills

Testing leadership

Test management

QA practices

Automation

Performance testing

Selenium

API testing

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Education

ISTQB certification or similar

Tools

Selenium

REST APIs

BDD

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

At ASB, we're all about doing what we can to help our customers get \"One Step Ahead\" by giving them the tools they need to manage their lives and plans for their families and future. Our products don't just serve ads or stream movies - they underpin our economy and touch people's lives.

If you've always wanted to apply your skills to a large-scale Kiwi success story, then today is your lucky day - as we are on the lookout for an Enterprise TestLeadto joinus!.

Mōtetūranga|About the Role:

Payments Tribe provides a secure environment enabling superior payment experiences to empower our customers with trusted payments. Within the Payments Tribe, we deliver and support enterprise-scale payment platforms that operate across multiple systems and squads, enabling resilient and future-fit payment capability for our customers.

As an Enterprise Test Lead, you will apply your payments domain experience and testing expertise to help lead squads in building, supporting, and maintaining our applications, while contributing to overall testing practices across programmes.

You'll be part of a programme or project at the forefront of delivering a secure, functional and performant ecosystem to our customers. In our diverse and accepting environment, our people grow their agile mind-set, learn, evolve and utilise their skills, while being empowered to make decisions.You'll have the opportunity to lead and get hands‑on with complex, enterprise‑scale systems and integrations.

We advocate agile, fully cross functional squads which will take you through all facets of engineering in any given day. We are looking for a mix of payments experience, test management and technical testing skills to support the following activities:

• Creating agile testing strategies and plans
• Fostering proactive and continuous improvements within the testing community
• Working with key stakeholders for end‑to‑end testing and obtaining sign‑off
• Building and supporting test automation
• Building and supporting performance testing
• Reviewing requirements and specifications
• Verifying and validating functionality being developed
• Analysing and reporting test results

We are looking for an individual that will lead testing within a large programme of work. Someone who not only understands strong QA practice across automation and non‑functional testing, but also someone who can provide leadership across squads. A person who can own and report overall test status and provide QA guidance to squads, leaders, and stakeholders.

Our technical environments drive continuous change for squads and customers to ensure we are delivering the best possible outcomes. You will work collaboratively with our squads and stakeholders to be the voice of test engineering and deliver better and safer payment experiences.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Proven testing leadership across large or complex projects or programmes
• Proven knowledge across functional, system, integration, API, end‑to‑end, automation and performance testing
• Ability to manage and coordinate end‑to‑end testing across multiple squads and systems
• Experience working with key stakeholders to achieve end‑to‑end testing and sign‑off
• Ability to create and maintain programme‑level test strategies and plans, including automation and non‑functional testing approaches
• Capture, track and elevate status, risks and issues to management
• Experience with test estimating, negotiating and prioritising work
• Ability to provide test sign‑off across coverage, execution, defects and risks
• Experience building sustainable, agile test processes that incorporate automation
• Experience managing complex integrated environments and test data
• Mentoring and guiding on testing standards and best practices
• Technical capability across .Net, REST APIs, Selenium, BDD or similar automation tooling
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience fostering a culture of continuous improvement within testing communities

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Payments, banking or financial services experience
• Experience working across integration-heavy or platform‑based environments
• ISTQB certification or similar
• Exposure to cloud technologies

He ahatāmātou| What can we offer?

• Impactful Work:Leverage your existing knowledge to make a significant impact for all of Aotearoa and our ASB customers.
• Career Development:Work for an organisation that places huge importance on its people, where the sky is the limit for development and career opportunities.
• Supportive Culture:ASB is committed to fostering a culture that respects your unique contributions and supports your personal and professional growth.
• Award winning benefits package:Including Southern Cross Health Insurance, additional ‘You-do-you’ Leave, Wellbeing allowance, AIA Vitality and Staff Banking Benefits (plus much more!)

To serve a diverse community, we need a diverse organisation. We encourage applicants from allbackgrounds who bring unique perspectives and thinking styles that add to the culture andperformance of our team.