Senior Test Automation Engineer - AI-Powered Quality & CI/CD

Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks leave

Insurance benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer in Wellington to design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions that safeguard our digital services. You will drive testing best practices, provide automation guidance, and shape our testing strategy across the organisation.

You will lead automation efforts, mentor colleagues, and apply AI-assisted testing techniques to improve quality and delivery efficiency.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software testing and test automation in large enterprise environments.
• Ability to translate business requirements into test scenarios and articulate defects clearly.
• Experience mentoring and uplifting testing capability across teams.
• ISTQB or equivalent test automation qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Design, create and execute reusable automated test scripts.
• Execute testing methodologies including BDD and test management strategy.
• Maintain and monitor automation framework, pipelines and source code.
• Analyze requirements to build product knowledge for automation.
• Collaborate with manual testers in scripting tests.

Skills

BDD

Data-Driven Testing

Mentoring

ISTQB

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer in Wellington to design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions that safeguard our digital services. You will drive testing best practices, provide automation guidance, and shape our testing strategy across the organisation.

You will lead automation efforts, mentor colleagues, and apply AI-assisted testing techniques to improve quality and delivery efficiency.