Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to drive automation and quality as part of its digital transformation. The role, onsite in Auckland (CBD or Airport Campus) offers a chance to shape testing strategy across agile teams, design and execute automation, maintain regression suites, mentor others, and contribute to the roadmap of the automation toolset. You’ll bring 5+ years in QA automation, hands-on Java frameworks, CI/CD, and experience with Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit/TestNG, and agile SDLC. To apply, tailor your CV to show leadership, test strategy, and measurable impact, highlight collaboration with architects and developers, and reference your UAT facilitation. Applications close 12/07/2026.

Job Description

Kia ora!

At Air New Zealand, we’re constantly evolving, embracing innovation, and pushing boundaries to create extraordinary experiences for our customers and employees. As we continue to grow and transform, we're seeking individuals who are passionate about making a difference and playing a key role in our journey. This is why we are excited to offer the opportunity to join the QA team and help drive our digital transformation efforts forward.

To support our shift to a more agile and innovative way of working, we are looking for a Senior QA Engineer. This role is critical to ensuring that our technical teams deliver high-quality solutions that align with our core values of excellence and customer focus. We need someone who can lead by example and bring their expertise to the table to help us enhance our testing capabilities and ensure the highest standards of quality.

We have opportunities available across both our Auckland CBD office and Auckland Airport Campus.

Key Responsibilities

• Use agile and lean methods (e.g. KANBAN, SCRUM, etc.) and get involved with all parts of the development process from inception through to release.
• Design, develop and execute new automation scenarios from functional and technical requirements and change requests.
• Maintain and monitor existing automation and regression testing, including ongoing refactoring of test suites.
• Apply software engineering principles to test engineering to ensure maximum ongoing value of implemented test suites.
• Work with technical teams (architects, software engineers, QA’s and BA’s) to diagnose issues and enhance the software design to best facilitate automation.
• Actively contribute to the strategic direction and technical roadmap of our software automation toolset and automated testing processes.
• Ensure both manual and automated tests adhere to testing processes, standards, and guidelines.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing to ensure that all requirements, features, or stories have been fully tested and accepted by the stakeholders prior to deployment.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to QA engineers.

Work Experience

• 5+ years experience as a Senior QA Automation within a technology business environment.
• Significant experience with testing of software and practical experience developing a test strategy within a complex technology environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java automation frameworks, CI/CD, test-driven development, and testing technologies.
• Strong experience in test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit, TestNG).
• Experience using testing, continuous integration and delivery toolsets to obtain fast quality states.
• Experience in being a technical mentor to others.
• Experience in working effectively and collaboratively across software product team disciplines and intra-team dependencies.
• Solid knowledge of current quality assurance methodologies, best practices, and toolsets.
• Solid knowledge of automation models and approaches.
• In-depth understanding of SDLC and first-hand experience within an Agile team.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

If this opportunity is of interest to you, apply now with your most recent CV. 

Applications close 12/07/2026.

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."