Quality Strategy Lead — DevOps & Testing (Wellington)

CGR Services; Wellington; On-site; NZD 101,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading superannuation benefits

Job summary

ACC is seeking a Quality Development Lead to strengthen and evolve quality practices across the organisation. You will work with the Practice Manager Quality, delivery teams and technical leaders to drive best practice in quality and testing, improve maturity, and support teams to deliver high-quality products at pace.

The appointing salary ranges from $101,287 to $131,077 based on experience, with ACC offering a comprehensive benefits package including a leading superannuation scheme.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in quality leadership, testing, quality assurance, or quality practice development.
• Experience embedding standards, frameworks, processes and continuous improvement initiatives across teams.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, software development practices and technical delivery environments.
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban and waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence, coach and gain buy-in across all levels.
• Experience developing reporting, quality metrics, quality health indicators and maturity assessments.
• Excellent facilitation, communication and presentation skills.
• A collaborative, proactive and innovative approach with a passion for growing capability and sharing knowledge.
• Understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its application in the design of policies, systems and processes.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen and evolve quality practices across ACC.
• Drive best practice in quality and testing, improve quality maturity, champion continuous improvement.
• Support teams to deliver high-quality products and services at pace.
• Influence quality strategy and build capability across the organisation.

Skills

Quality leadership

Quality frameworks

DevOps / CI-CD

Agile methods

Stakeholder engagement

Quality metrics

Facilitation

Collaboration

Te Tiriti knowledge

Job description

ACC is seeking a Quality Development Lead to strengthen and evolve quality practices across the organisation. You will work with the Practice Manager Quality, delivery teams and technical leaders to drive best practice in quality and testing, improve maturity, and support teams to deliver high-quality products at pace.

The appointing salary ranges from $101,287 to $131,077 based on experience, with ACC offering a comprehensive benefits package including a leading superannuation scheme.