Senior Automation QA Lead – Lending Transformation

Westpac New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to lead automation-led quality outcomes within the Lending Transformation programme. You will design, build, maintain and run automated and functional tests across complex enterprise environments to ensure reliability and scalability.

You will mentor engineers, champion continuous improvement, and help apply AI-enabled quality practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality outcomes while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' recent and relevant experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, or Software Testing.
• Strong experience defining, implementing, and continuously improving quality engineering practices, standards, and test strategies.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and performing quality reviews to uplift team capability and promote engineering best practices.
• Strong hands-on automation experience, including automation framework design, development, maintenance, and CI/CD pipeline integration e.g., CloudBees
• Strong programming experience in Java.
• Strong API and integration testing experience, including automated API validation using frameworks such as Rest Assured.
• Strong SQL skills with experience validating data across multiple systems.
• Hands-on performance testing experience using JMeter.
• Experience testing microservices, distributed systems, and end-to-end integrations.
• Experience with risk-based test design, end-to-end traceability, defect management, root-cause analysis, and remediation validation.
• Experience using Git and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of release governance, quality risk management, and operational readiness practices.
• Experience producing quality metrics, test reporting, and audit-ready testing evidence to support delivery and release decisions.
• Desirable experience in Lending or broader banking domain knowledge.

Skills

Quality engineering

Test automation

Java

API testing

SQL

Performance testing

CI/CD

Git

Microservices

End-to-end testing

Tools

Rest Assured

JMeter

CloudBees

Job description

Westpac New Zealand is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to lead automation-led quality outcomes within the Lending Transformation programme. You will design, build, maintain and run automated and functional tests across complex enterprise environments to ensure reliability and scalability.

You will mentor engineers, champion continuous improvement, and help apply AI-enabled quality practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality outcomes while collaborating across teams.