Quality Engineering Lead — AI-Driven Quality & Enablement

BNZ; New Zealand; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Wellbeing program

Career development

Job summary

BNZ is seeking a Quality Engineering Lead to shape how quality is engineered across BNZ Technology. You will influence standards, tooling and governance to lift quality at scale, including AI-enabled engineering practices and observability.

You’ll coach engineers and quality professionals, build communities of practice, and translate insights into practical guidance that improves delivery confidence and reduces risk across teams.

Qualifications

• Strong technical credibility across modern quality engineering and test practices.
• Experience defining or evolving quality standards in complex environments.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, shift-left testing and automated quality controls.
• Ability to influence engineers and leaders without formal authority.
• Data-driven approach to drive change and prioritisation.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for delivery outcomes, with governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve BNZ’s quality engineering strategy, standards and practices, including test automation, quality gates, test data, observability and CI/CD quality controls.
• Partner with delivery and platform teams to embed modern, shift-left quality practices into day-to-day ways of working, tooling and delivery governance.
• Coach engineers and quality practitioners, building strong communities of practice, practical learning pathways and consistent quality engineering behaviours.
• Use evidence, quality signals and delivery data to measure quality maturity, identify improvement opportunities, and connect engineering quality to delivery risk, assurance and release confidence.
• Guide the practical and responsible use of AI-enabled engineering tools to strengthen test design, automation, defect analysis, documentation, pattern identification and continuous improvement.
• Translate emerging quality engineering and AI-assisted practices into pragmatic guidance, standards and coaching that teams can adopt consistently.
• Work across Technology to ensure quality expectations are integrated into standards, tooling and engineering practices in a way that supports safe, reliable and efficient delivery.

Skills

Quality engineering

Test practices

Coaching

Data-driven decisions

AI tools

CI/CD governance

Observability

Test automation

Quality strategy

Leadership

Job description

BNZ is seeking a Quality Engineering Lead to shape how quality is engineered across BNZ Technology. You will influence standards, tooling and governance to lift quality at scale, including AI-enabled engineering practices and observability.

You’ll coach engineers and quality professionals, build communities of practice, and translate insights into practical guidance that improves delivery confidence and reduces risk across teams.