Quality Engineering Leader — Scale & Impact

Southern Cross Health Insurance; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Health insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Wellbeing programme

Flexi leave

Volunteer day

Job summary

Southern Cross Health Insurance in Auckland is seeking a senior Quality Engineer to lead the quality engineering across our Digital Platforms Value Stream. You will set strategy, guide testing discipline, and partner with engineering and product to ship safe, fast, maintainable software.

You’ll coach engineers at all levels, grow the Quality Engineering Community of Practice, and ensure test data, environments, and quality gates are ready for squads.

Qualifications

• Proven track record uplifting engineering practices across multiple squads.
• Strong coding skills across multiple languages.
• Deep grounding in CI/CD, cloud-native architectures and secure coding.
• Expertise in test pyramid optimisation and automation across all layers.
• Experience with observability, SLI/SLO design and improving MTTR.
• Strong knowledge of risk-based testing, quality gate design, test data management, performance testing, and accessibility and compliance automation.
• Experience running Communities of Practice and coaching senior engineers.
• A collaborative approach to working across Architecture, Platform, Security and Product.

Responsibilities

• Set and evolve the Value Stream quality strategy with the Engineering Practice, architecture peers and the wider engineering community
• Partner with the Head of Technology, Principal Engineer and Technology Leads so quality, reliability and delivery outcomes are considered together
• Coach Software Engineers and Quality Engineers through code review, pairing, structured feedback and Capability Framework conversations
• Lead the Quality Engineering Community of Practice as the main venue for sharing patterns and evolving standards
• Work with Platform and Architecture so golden paths cover test data, environments and pipeline quality gates
• Facilitate cross-squad technical decisions where quality or testing standards are in question, using data to find a way forward
• Review significant quality engineering investments and the criteria behind them
• Investigate significant production incidents alongside squads, and feed learnings back into standards and capability
• Translate product priorities into quality decisions, and engineering realities back into stakeholder language

Skills

Coding skills

CI/CD

Observability

Risk-based testing

CoP leadership

Collaboration

Security practices

Performance testing

Job description

Southern Cross Health Insurance in Auckland is seeking a senior Quality Engineer to lead the quality engineering across our Digital Platforms Value Stream. You will set strategy, guide testing discipline, and partner with engineering and product to ship safe, fast, maintainable software.

You’ll coach engineers at all levels, grow the Quality Engineering Community of Practice, and ensure test data, environments, and quality gates are ready for squads.