Quality Engineering Lead — AI-Enabled Quality & Coaching

BNZ; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous leave

Career development

Job summary

BNZ is building a new Engineering Excellence team to raise the quality, consistency and confidence of software delivery. This enterprise-wide role leads quality engineering strategy, standards and coaching, including AI-enabled tooling to enhance test design and observability.

You will influence across Technology to embed quality into CI/CD and delivery governance. The role focuses on enabling teams, with a strong emphasis on coaching, standards, and pragmatic guidance to drive measurable

Qualifications

• Strong quality engineering background across modern testing and delivery practices.
• Ability to coach engineers and leaders without formal authority.
• Experience using data and quality signals to drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve BNZ’s Quality Engineering strategy, standards and practices, including test automation, quality gates and CI/CD quality controls.
• Partner with delivery and platform teams to embed shift-left quality practices into day-to-day work and governance.
• Coach engineers and quality practitioners, building communities of practice and learning pathways.
• Use evidence and delivery data to measure quality maturity and identify improvement opportunities.
• Guide the responsible use of AI-enabled engineering tools to strengthen test design and automation.
• Translate emerging quality engineering and AI practices into pragmatic guidance, standards and coaching.
• Collaborate across Technology to integrate quality expectations into standards, tooling and practices.

Skills

Quality engineering leadership

Coaching engineers

AI-assisted engineering

Job description

BNZ is building a new Engineering Excellence team to raise the quality, consistency and confidence of software delivery. This enterprise-wide role leads quality engineering strategy, standards and coaching, including AI-enabled tooling to enhance test design and observability.

You will influence across Technology to embed quality into CI/CD and delivery governance. The role focuses on enabling teams, with a strong emphasis on coaching, standards, and pragmatic guidance to drive measurable