Senior Test Automation Engineer: AI-Driven QA Leader

New Zealand Government Joba; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave

Insurance package

Flexible working arrangements

Career development

Job summary

Kāinga Ora is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our Wellington-based Testing Team. You will design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions, driving QA practices and guiding automation strategy across the organisation.

You will apply AI-assisted testing techniques to improve testing effectiveness, supervise automation pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to safeguard system integrity and enable efficient delivery of digital services.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software testing and test automation in large enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of automation infrastructure, environment management, testing tools, programming languages, CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep expertise in automation frameworks and methodologies including BDD, Data-Driven Testing, and library architectures.
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective test scenarios and articulate defects clearly.
• Experience mentoring and uplifting testing capability across teams; ISTQB or equivalent certifications beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design, create and execute reusable automated test scripts.
• Execute testing methodogies such as BDD and maintain test management strategy.
• Maintain and expand the automation framework, pipelines and source code.
• Analyze requirements to build product knowledge and test scenarios.
• Collaborate with Manual Testers to script tests.

Skills

Test automation

Automation frameworks

BDD

Data-driven testing

CI/CD

Mentoring

ISTQB

Job description

Kāinga Ora is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our Wellington-based Testing Team. You will design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions, driving QA practices and guiding automation strategy across the organisation.

You will apply AI-assisted testing techniques to improve testing effectiveness, supervise automation pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to safeguard system integrity and enable efficient delivery of digital services.