Test Engineer

Starfish Consulting; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Starfish Consulting in Wellington is seeking an experienced Test Engineer to join a major transformation programme. You will design, develop, and run automated tests to ensure reliable, accurate systems in banking and financial services.

You will work with stakeholders, developers, and delivery teams to improve test coverage, support releases, and contribute to CI/CD and quality practices. This is a fixed-term contract for 18 months.

Qualifications

• Experience with automated testing across API, integration and UI layers.
• Strong coding skills in Java and/or Python.
• Proven ability to design, implement and maintain automated test frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites.
• Design and execute API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Validate complex business rules and financial data across migrations.

Skills

Playwright

Postman

Bruno

NUnit/C#

Selenium

Cypress

RestAssured

Karate

Tools

Git

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

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Starfish Consulting – Wellington Central, North Island

Are you a hands-on Test Engineer who enjoys building robust automation frameworks, validating complex data, and ensuring critical systems perform as expected?

We're looking for an experienced Test Engineer to join a major transformation programme where you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality outcomes across banking and financial services products. This is an opportunity to work on complex integrations, data migrations, and API-driven solutions in a collaborative, delivery-focused environment.

What you’ll be doing

As a Test Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated testing solutions that ensure systems are reliable, accurate, and fit for purpose. You'll work closely with business stakeholders, developers, and delivery teams to validate business requirements, improve test coverage, and support successful releases.

Key responsibilities include:

• Building and maintaining automated test frameworks and test suites
• Designing and executing API, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Validating complex business rules, calculations, and financial transactions
• Performing migration and reconciliation testing across source and target systems
• Querying and analysing data to validate outcomes and identify discrepancies
• Supporting SIT and E2E testing activities, including defect triage and troubleshooting
• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines and continuous quality practices
• Ensuring clear traceability between requirements, test scenarios, and automation coverage

Fixed Term Contract | 18months

Are you a hands-on Test Engineer who enjoys building robust automation frameworks, validating complex data, and ensuring critical systems perform as expected?

We're looking for an experienced Test Engineer to join a major transformation programme where you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality outcomes across banking and financial services products. This is an opportunity to work on complex integrations, data migrations, and API-driven solutions in a collaborative, delivery-focused environment.

What you’ll be doing

As a Test Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated testing solutions that ensure systems are reliable, accurate, and fit for purpose. You'll work closely with business stakeholders, developers, and delivery teams to validate business requirements, improve test coverage, and support successful releases.

Key responsibilities include:

• Building and maintaining automated test frameworks and test suites
• Designing and executing API, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Validating complex business rules, calculations, and financial transactions
• Performing migration and reconciliation testing across source and target systems
• Querying and analysing data to validate outcomes and identify discrepancies
• Supporting SIT and E2E testing activities, including defect triage and troubleshooting
• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines and continuous quality practices
• Ensuring clear traceability between requirements, test scenarios, and automation coverage

What you’ll bring

We're looking for someone with strong technical testing capability combined with experience working in financial services or banking environments.

You’ll ideally have:

• Strong experience with test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Postman, Bruno, NUnit/C#, Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured, or Karate
• Solid programming skills in Java and/or Python
• Experience testing REST and SOAP APIs, including JSON and XML validation
• Strong SQL and database querying skills
• Experience using Git and modern version control practices
• A proven track record delivering automation within CI/CD environments such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• Strong troubleshooting and defect investigation skills

Highly desirable experience

• Banking, financial services, lending, payments, or core banking platforms
• Data-driven testing approaches and parameterised automation frameworks
• Data migration, reconciliation, and validation testing
• Testing financial calculations, interest accruals, fees, or transaction processing
• BDD frameworks and tools such as Gherkin or Cucumber

Key Skills Test Automation | Playwright | Postman | Selenium | Cypress | API Testing | Python | Java | SQL | Git | CI/CD | Jenkins | GitHub Actions | Data Migration | Reconciliation Testing | Banking | Financial Services | BDD | Cucumber | Gherkin