Senior QA Engineer: Risk-First, System-Wide Quality

Pushpay Holdings Limited; Auckland; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Pushpay Holdings Limited in Auckland is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join an engineering team. You’ll test across front-end and back-end systems, participate early in planning, and help ensure quality before production releases. The role emphasizes thinking through risk and customer impact over automation-first approaches.

You will mentor teammates, improve testing practices, and collaborate with Software Engineers, Product, Design and SRE to deliver reliable software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA or software testing experience.
• A natural curiosity about how software works.
• Ability to think in terms of risk, systems and customer impact.
• Knows how to investigate, not just execute test cases.
• Can move comfortably between front-end behaviour and back-end logic.
• Clear communication across disciplines.
• Familiar with Jira and Confluence; Playwright and Postman helpful.

Responsibilities

• Test across front-end and back-end systems.
• Get involved early to identify risk, assumptions and gaps.
• Think beyond the happy path and explore how things could fail.
• Understand the customer and prioritise testing based on impact and business value.
• Investigate defects deeply, following clues and testing hypotheses.
• Analyse and triage issues raised by customers and internal teams.
• Look at the whole system, not just the ticket in front of you.
• Help keep important quality issues visible and prioritised.
• Improve testing practices, documentation and ways of working.
• Share knowledge and mentor less experienced team members.

Skills

QA/Software testing expertise

Front-end & back-end testing

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Playwright

Postman

Job description

Pushpay Holdings Limited in Auckland is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join an engineering team. You’ll test across front-end and back-end systems, participate early in planning, and help ensure quality before production releases. The role emphasizes thinking through risk and customer impact over automation-first approaches.

You will mentor teammates, improve testing practices, and collaborate with Software Engineers, Product, Design and SRE to deliver reliable software.