QA Automation Engineer

• Immediate start
• Day shift opportunity
• Medical and Dental Insurance provided
  
  

About the Team:

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer in one of our Product & Technology teams based in New Zealand, you will be a crucial member working alongside your peers, building modern test automation frameworks and help shifting quality to the left by promoting test-first practices within a continuous delivery environment.

You will lead and guide our efforts to improve our overall quality. You’ll help to mentor and upskill others, guiding and supporting good practices in QA.

You will lead and guide our efforts to improve our overall level of quality and coverage of test automation. You’ll help to mentor and upskill others, guiding and supporting good practices in the use of test automation.

You will be reporting to the Head of Quality and Delivery in New Zealand. This is a hands-on role; you’ll be expected to be actively doing test automation. You will also from time to time help run manual tests when required and get involved in the planning and refinement of work.

Key Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead the continuous improvement of how we use test automation in our products and platforms.
• Focus on speeding up various feedback loops that make it safe, fast and easy for our squads to deliver change to production.
• Help build quality in from the beginning of the product development flow and support the team reach those goals.
• Do not shy away from analysis of the system and doing manual regression.
• Able to work with Product and Business to be able to prioritize the key flows and help organize the approach to Manual and Automated Regression.
• Work with the Team to understand the requirements during the Refinement process, and identify and document the test cases early.
• Work with other Quality Engineers to best determine the test automation approach.
• Develop an automation framework and write tests at various levels - preferably Playwright/Typescript, but any programming language will be ok.
• Guide the developers to writing automation tests themselves.
• Run workshops and training on the topics of test automation.
• Help promote a "shift-left" organizational culture by enabling and promoting "test-first" practices (BDD), quality, and security early and often in the CI/CD flow (DevSecOps).
  
  

Experience and skills:

• An eye for detail, a curious mind, and the initiative to challenge the status quo and drive improvements.
• Ability to influence and persuade people, gaining their trust and respect.
• Confident working with clients and senior leaders, professional and diplomatic.
• Collaborative within the team and across the organization, with excellent interpersonal skills - understanding that "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts".
• Passionate about learning, sharing knowledge, and inspiring earlier-in-career Quality Engineers and others across Product & Technology.
• A bias for action - because learning quickly is more valuable than knowing precisely.
• Organized and well-prepared, anticipating needs and making it easy for the team to do good work, delivering value early and often.
• Building modern automation frameworks, both for UI and API in at least one programming language - preferably BDD/Playwright/Typescript/C#, but any programming language will be ok.
• Working, leading, and delivering value in an organization undergoing high levels of growth.
  
  

Nice to have:

• ISTQB Certification or equivalent.
• Experience in IT in a Financial Services organization.
  
  

ShoreExtra Benefits

• Highly engaged team
• Flexible work environment
• Unlimited growth potential
• Fun and family-oriented working environment
  
  

Work Set Up:

• Hybrid work set-up (Office location: Ortigas)
• 3 days on-site: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
• 2 days Work-from-Home: Thursday, Friday
• Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 7:00 am - 4:00 pm