Quality Assurance Engineer - Platform

Foodstuffs North Island Limited; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free carparking

Health insurance – Southern Cross

5% discount at stores

Onsite café with subsidised meals

Flexible working options

Birthday day off

Inhouse learning & development

Job summary

Foodstuffs North Island Limited in Auckland is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Agile Delivery Squad, driving automation and elevating quality across our platform capabilities. You’ll not just test—you’ll innovate, automate, and push the boundaries of testing.

You'll design test plans, implement robust automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, and CI/CD tools, and collaborate with Developers, BAs, and Product Owners to ensure reliable, quality releases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience delivering test automation in a full-stack environment.
• Experience automating for web, mobile, and microservices.
• Strong programming skills in Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or C#.
• Proven experience with Selenium, Playwright, and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality—embed excellence at every stage of development with your squad.
• Design and execute high-impact test plans for complex business/technical challenges.
• Automate like a pro—build and enhance automation frameworks and patterns.
• Lead improvements and promote best practices across FSNI’s QA Practice.
• Identify and resolve defects and optimise test environments for flawless releases.

Skills

Test automation

Full-stack testing

QA collaboration

Automation mindset

CI/CD collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cucumber

Cypress

WebDriverIO

Appium

Jenkins

Bamboo

GitHub Actions

Job description

Ko Wai Mātou – About Us

Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!

Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!
With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.

Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”

Te Tūranga – About The Role

At Foodstuffs North Island (FSNI), we’re redefining digital experiences for millions of Kiwis. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our Agile Delivery Squad, ensuring our platform capabilities not only meet, but exceed expectations. You won’t just test—you’ll innovate, automate, and elevate our quality standards. As part of the FSNI QA Practice, you’ll help shape best practices and push the boundaries of what’s possible in testing. Ready to make an impact? Let’s build something amazing together!

What You’ll Do

• Own the quality – Collaborate with your squad to embed excellence at every stage of development.
• Think beyond testing – Design and execute high-impact test plans that tackle complex business and technical challenges.
• Automate like a pro – Build and enhance cutting-edge test automation frameworks, driving an automation-first mindset.
• Be a quality evangelist – Lead improvements, influence best practices, and drive innovation across FSNI’s QA Practice.
• Deliver value – Identify and resolve defects, optimise test environments, and proactively ensure flawless product releases.

If you’re passionate about pushing boundaries, pioneering new ways to test, and delivering world-class digital experiences, we want to hear from you!

Ngā Painga - What We Offer

We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits:

• Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including 36 free EV plugs
• Southern cross health insurance
• 5% discount at our retail stores
• Onsite café with subsidised meals and mini mart,
• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

He Kōrero Mōu - About You

You’re a passionate QA professional who thrives in collaborative, Agile environments. You have a keen eye for detail, love solving complex challenges, and are always looking for ways to improve processes with automation. Your ability to communicate technical concepts effectively allows you to engage with stakeholders across the business, advocating for quality at every stage.

What You’ll Bring

Expertise in Test Planning - A strong ability to interpret user stories and requirements to develop targeted micro and macro test plans, incorporating pragmatic test scenarios and reusable automation scripts that drive efficient and effective validation.

Collaborative Problem Solving - A consistent approach to working closely with squad members—including Developers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners—to proactively identify and resolve gaps in understanding or requirements, ensuring alignment and shared clarity.

Sound Judgment in Test Scope - The capability to apply situational awareness and technical insight to extend testing into non-functional areas (e.g. performance, security) when appropriate, ensuring comprehensive coverage and system resilience.

Technical Proficiency in Automation - Proven experience in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality automated test code using frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, and BDD, with hands-on skills in Java SpringBoot, TypeScript, and NodeJS.

CI/CD Pipeline Expertise - Practical knowledge in building, configuring, and maintaining continuous integration pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, and GitHub Actions—ensuring test reliability, stability, and consistently green pipelines.

Clear and Actionable Reporting - The ability to produce clear, traceable automated test execution reports that highlight test coverage and requirement completeness, supporting informed decision-making and continuous improvement.

Structured Defect Management - A disciplined approach to reporting and tracking software defects in line with established workflows, contributing to efficient resolution and overall product quality.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of professional experience with hands-on delivery of test automation design and development in a full-stack environment.
• Strong experience with automating against web applications, mobile applications, and microservices
• Strong programming skills in at least one of the following OOP languages: Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS
• Strong experience with implementing and utilising any of the following common automation frameworks: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Playwright, Cypress, WebDriver.io , Appium
• Experience in managing automated testing artefacts using common Test Management toolsets (i.e. Jira, Xray, Zephyr, qTest, ADO, ALM, etc.)

Experience Awesome. Achieve Awesome. Be Awesomely You.

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs @foodstuffs.co.nz. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.