Quality Engineering & Automation Leader

Contact Energy Ltd

Wellington

Hybrid

NZD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

Contact Energy Ltd is seeking a Chapter Lead to grow and shape its quality engineering and automation capability across software and data teams. You will balance people leadership with technical guidance, coaching and career development, while embedding pragmatic quality standards and modern automation practices to deliver reliable software.

Based in Wellington with flexible, hybrid options, you’ll influence quality at scale and partner with domain and delivery leaders to lift capability and

Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of quality engineering and automation.
  • Experience leading, coaching and developing technical people.
  • Ability to influence across engineering, delivery and technology teams.
  • Strong communication skills and a pragmatic approach to solving problems.
  • Strategic mindset with a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves approach.

Responsibilities

  • Developing the capability roadmap for quality engineering and automation.
  • Growing and supporting a high-performing chapter through coaching and career development.
  • Establishing pragmatic quality standards, frameworks and engineering practices.
  • Helping teams adopt modern approaches to automation, testing and quality engineering.
  • Partnering with Domain Leads, Delivery Leads, Software and Data Engineers to improve delivery outcomes.
  • Evaluating emerging tools and AI opportunities to enhance quality and efficiency.

Skills

Quality engineering
Automation
Coaching
Influence across teams
Communication

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Contact Energy Ltd is seeking a Chapter Lead to grow and shape its quality engineering and automation capability across software and data teams. You will balance people leadership with technical guidance, coaching and career development, while embedding pragmatic quality standards and modern automation practices to deliver reliable software.

Based in Wellington with flexible, hybrid options, you’ll influence quality at scale and partner with domain and delivery leaders to lift capability and

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