Quality Engineer Lead: Automation & Strategy

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free health insurance

KiwiSaver boost

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Home setup & wellbeing grant

Parental leave policy

Product discounts

Job summary

Contact Energy is reshaping how quality is built into software. We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to guide automation, standards and feedback loops across three to four squads in our NZ domain.

You’ll coach software and data engineers to embed quality into delivery, while shaping test strategies and metrics, and enabling automation-first practices, CI/CD, and cross‑functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in quality engineering, QA, or test automation.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps and modern software principles.
• Experience improving quality outcomes via engineering and testing practices.
• Ability to build credibility with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication, curiosity and collaborative problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Support several squads with practical quality engineering guidance
• Help engineers adopt test-driven development and automation-first practices
• Shape test strategies, standards, risk decisions and quality metrics
• Improve automation reliability, maintain CI/CD integration
• Adapt approach to different technologies rather than one standard solution

Skills

Quality engineering

Quality assurance

Test automation

Agile delivery

DevOps practices

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Automation frameworks

Cloud platforms

Job description

Contact Energy is reshaping how quality is built into software. We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to guide automation, standards and feedback loops across three to four squads in our NZ domain.

You’ll coach software and data engineers to embed quality into delivery, while shaping test strategies and metrics, and enabling automation-first practices, CI/CD, and cross‑functional collaboration.