Quality Engineering Lead for AI-Driven Delivery

Bank of New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous leave

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Bank of New Zealand is seeking a Quality Engineering Lead to shape how quality engineering is delivered at scale. The role emphasizes standards, coaching, and pragmatic guidance to uplift quality across BNZ Technology.

You will influence teams, drive quality maturity, and responsibly adopt AI-enabled tools to improve test design, automation and delivery outcomes, while maintaining governance and risk controls.

Qualifications

• Experience leading quality engineering at scale in a complex or regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, shift-left testing and automated quality controls.
• Ability to influence engineers and leaders without formal authority.

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

Leadership

Coaching

Education

Relevant engineering/quality discipline

Tools

AI‑enabled tooling

Job description

Bank of New Zealand is seeking a Quality Engineering Lead to shape how quality engineering is delivered at scale. The role emphasizes standards, coaching, and pragmatic guidance to uplift quality across BNZ Technology.

You will influence teams, drive quality maturity, and responsibly adopt AI-enabled tools to improve test design, automation and delivery outcomes, while maintaining governance and risk controls.