Senior Test Automation Engineer

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

He kōrero mō mātou | About Watercare

Ki te ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata

When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy

There's never been a better time to join Watercare. We're delivering a $15.2 billion, 10-year capital investment programme, the largest in our history, creating opportunities to work on transformative infrastructure, sustainability and digital projects that will shape Auckland's future. With more than $4 million invested every day, you'll be part of work that makes a lasting difference to our communities and environment.

He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the role

We have a number of permanent roles available in our Digital team for Senior Automation Test Engineers! This is a truly awesome team! Don't take our word for it, come find out for yourself. Watercare is involved in unique projects, and you will be working with people who are passionate about what we do! After all, water is one of the single most vital elements to a successful city. The office environment is modern, within a great location, right in the heart of Newmarket, and we operate a flexible/hybrid work model. Reporting to the Test Manager, the primary purpose of this role is to perform a hybrid of automation and manual testing duties in Watercare Digital. You will be working across the application delivery teams, engaging with stakeholders, develop and maintain the test automation framework and contributing to the test automation strategy.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our testing practices.
• Design, develop, maintain, and evolve optimal test automation solutions in the areas of UI, Integration, or Data.
• Collaborate with product owners and delivery leads to ensure appropriate test coverage of core functionality, API's and data.
• Engage with product owners to identify proper test acceptance criteria.
• Mentoring of junior members of the test automation team.
• Supporting a high-performance team culture.
• Perform both manual and automated testing.
• Generally, manual tests are created first of which some are identified for conversion to test automation.

Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you

• Tertiary level qualification in information technology or relevant area of study.
• Have a ISTQB Agile Tester or better certification.
• Strong experience in manual testing combined with test automation, and using Selenium Solid experience using Java code for test automation, working with cloud technologies AWS or MS Azure, Azure DevOps for test automation repos and pipelines, and working in agile delivery environments.
• Experience creating, maintaining, and improving test automation frameworks.
• Experience in leadership such as test lead (formal or informal).
• Skilled in test planning and proven ability to granulate large items of work into smaller tasks.
• A positive and proactive attitude who enjoys problem solving and engaging with agile squads.
• Enthusiasm about technology and a strong results/solutions focus.

Ngā hua mōu | What's in it for you

We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:

• Training and development opportunities
• Life and income protection insurance plans
• Generous parental leave
• Employee discounts at a range of large retailers