Quality Engineering Leader: Drive Automation & Strategy

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free health insurance cover

Boosted KiwiSaver

Parental leave policy

Job summary

Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko) seeks a Quality Engineer to guide the shift from traditional testing toward proactive quality engineering across multiple squads. You’ll influence automation, testing standards, and risk decisions while coaching engineers to embed quality into delivery.

You’ll work across domains, shaping strategies, improving CI/CD integrations, and mentoring teams to adopt automation-first practices in a flexible, energy-focused environment in New Zealand.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in quality engineering, quality assurance or test automation within modern technology environments.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, DevOps practices and modern software engineering principles.
• Experience supporting teams to improve quality outcomes through effective engineering and testing practices.
• The ability to build credibility with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
• Strong communication skills, curiosity and a collaborative approach to problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Support several squads with practical quality engineering guidance.
• Help software and data engineers adopt test-driven software engineering and automation-first practices.
• Shape test strategies, standards, risk decisions and useful quality measures.
• Improve automation reliability, maintainability and CI/CD integration.
• Adapt the approach to different technologies rather than forcing one standard solution.

Skills

Quality engineering

Agile delivery

DevOps practices

Engineering influence

Stakeholder communication

Curiosity & collaboration

Education

Quality engineering certifications

Tools

Automation frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko) seeks a Quality Engineer to guide the shift from traditional testing toward proactive quality engineering across multiple squads. You’ll influence automation, testing standards, and risk decisions while coaching engineers to embed quality into delivery.

You’ll work across domains, shaping strategies, improving CI/CD integrations, and mentoring teams to adopt automation-first practices in a flexible, energy-focused environment in New Zealand.