Senior Quality Engineer

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

Mō te tūranga | About the Role

As a Senior Quality Engineer in our Lending Transformation team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable lending solutions. You will actively oversee and participate in the delivery of quality outcomes by designing, developing, maintaining, and executing automation and functional test solutions using modern tools, best-practice techniques, and agile quality engineering practices.

This is an automation-led role requiring strong hands-on experience in automation, API and integration testing across complex enterprise environments.

As a senior member of the team, you'll provide technical leadership, mentor and coach other engineers, and champion continuous improvement across testing and quality practices.

As Westpac continues to evolve its engineering capabilities, you'll also have the opportunity to leverage AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve efficiency, accelerate delivery, and enhance quality outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence quality outcomes within a large-scale transformation programme. We are looking for someone who is passionate, embraces innovation, and enjoys solving complex problems in a collaborative environment.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• 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.

Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation

At Westpac, we're working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we've been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.

What makes us unique are the incredible people we're lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant 'W' on our building doesn't just stand for Westpac - it says, double you. We're a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We're recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you!

The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to cultivate a team rich in ability and empowered to reach its full potential. Our aim is to be brave challengers, celebrating our differences and relentlessly advocating for our customers. It starts with us - we believe that when we care deeply and do our best for our people, they'll do their best for our customers. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodivergent, have chronic health conditions or disabilities - your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.

Mahi tahi tātou, kaha ake tātou | Together Greater

Applications close: 2 November 2026