Senior QA Engineer at New Zealand Transport Agency, Wellington

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Bring your exceptional test management skills
• Contribute to the delivery of high-quality services across Waka Kotahi
• Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington

Come and join our high performing team that takes pride in sharing knowledge and delivering project outcomes!

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

Charged with ensuring the delivery of quality software within engineering teams, and with driving forward test automation within their immediate team. The responsibilities include challenging and questioning requirements and implementation as a way to prevent bugs and build quality, instead of finding bugs after implementation.

You will be part of a high performing agile and cross-functional product team, where the delivery of quality software is the teams primary goal. You will not only deeply care what and why you deliver features, but also take intense pride in how.

We are looking for an excellent collaborator who is accurate, confident and tenacious. If you are keen to expand your already excellent technical and testing knowledge, in return you'll have the opportunity to work in a friendly and vibrant environment alongside other people who share your passion.

Ko koe tēnei | About you

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Manage resource planning and estimate work effort
• Design and maintain testing outcomes for critical projects and programmes
• Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders eg, QA team, development team, vendors, projects & programmes
• Communicate test progress, test results and other relevant information
• Keep current with delivery lifecycles and testing methodologies

You will demonstrate knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an understanding of Te Ao Māori and promote tikanga and Te Reo Māori. You will also have knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an appreciation of te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) as it applies in the public sector.

Ko wai mātou | About us

Te Aukaha | Digital strengthens Waka Kotahi through supporting our people and delivering future-focussed solutions. We enable digital change and provide quality data, information and security services.

Along with our other benefits we also have new Waka Kotahi Life, Income Protection and Critical Illness Insurance scheme available for permanent employees.

Review the Position description here.

As part of the review process we will be asking shortlisted candidates to complete a short Sparkhire video interview.

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Rā Katinga | Applications close: 6 July 2022.

For further information, email: careers@nzta.govt.nz

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). At the Agency we recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.

Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.