Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

About the Role

Join Air New Zealand in Auckland as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, playing an essential role in advancing our digital transformation journey. This position demands leadership in enhancing quality assurance capabilities to guarantee top-notch software solutions aligned with our customer-centric values and excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage actively in the complete development cycle using agile and lean practices such as Kanban and Scrum.
• Create, implement, and refine new automated test scenarios derived from functional and technical requirements.
• Oversee and update existing automation and regression tests, continuously improving test suites.
• Integrate software engineering principles into test engineering to maintain the long-term value of testing assets.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, QA personnel, and business analysts to troubleshoot and improve software design for automation.
• Contribute to shaping the strategic roadmap for our automation tools and testing methodologies.
• Ensure adherence of both manual and automated testing to established standards and guidelines.
• Support user acceptance testing processes to confirm all requirements and features satisfy stakeholder expectations before deployment.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to fellow QA engineers.

Experience and Skills Required

• Over five years of experience as a Senior QA Automation Engineer within a technology-driven organization.
• Proven expertise in software testing and test strategy development in complex technical environments.
• Strong practical knowledge of Java-based automation frameworks, continuous integration and delivery systems, and test-driven development.
• Hands-on experience with prominent automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit, and TestNG.
• Proficiency with tools that support fast delivery of quality software through continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Experience mentoring technical teams and collaborating effectively across various product team areas.
• In-depth understanding of contemporary quality assurance practice, automation models, and Agile software development lifecycle.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal capabilities.

Additional Information

Air New Zealand champions diversity, equity, and inclusion, nurturing a workplace where everyone can thrive authentically. We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds, including individuals with disabilities or neurodiverse conditions. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process due to accessibility barriers, please contact the recruiter listed in the job advertisement for support.

Applications close on 2 August 2026.

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