Senior Automation Tester - Hybrid, Mentoring & Growth

Watercare Services Limited; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development opportunities

Life and income protection insurance

Generous parental leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Watercare Services Limited is seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer to join our Digital team in Auckland. You will contribute to the automation strategy, build and maintain our test framework, and work across delivery teams to ensure robust quality across UI, API, and data layers.

You will mentor junior testers, collaborate with product owners, and help drive continuous improvement in testing practices in a flexible/hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• ISTQB Agile Tester certification or higher.
• Strong experience in manual testing and test automation.
• Solid Java code experience for test automation with Selenium.
• Experience with AWS or MS Azure and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience leading or mentoring in a test team.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of test automation solutions for UI, API, and data layers.
• Collaborate with product owners and delivery leads to ensure proper test coverage of core functionality.
• Mentor junior members of the test automation team and promote best practices.
• Conduct both manual and automated testing and help grow the automation framework.
• Engage in continuous improvement of testing processes and tools.

Skills

Manual testing

Test automation

Selenium

Java

Azure

AWS

Azure DevOps

Agile delivery

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Tertiary IT qualification

ISTQB Agile Tester

Tools

Selenium

Java

AWS

Azure

Azure DevOps

Job description

Watercare Services Limited is seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer to join our Digital team in Auckland. You will contribute to the automation strategy, build and maintain our test framework, and work across delivery teams to ensure robust quality across UI, API, and data layers.

You will mentor junior testers, collaborate with product owners, and help drive continuous improvement in testing practices in a flexible/hybrid environment.