Location: Christchurch (03 days in the office)

***Applicants for this position must have New Zealand Citizenship/Residence or a valid New Zealand Open Work Visa***

Tō tūranga hou | Your new role

• Operationalise testing strategies to deliver the desired test outcomes for the team, and document them to the appropriate level of detail.

• Responsible for developing ways of working and test engagement practices in collaboration with members of your own team as well as with various stakeholder groups, and document these.

• Provide direction and supervision for larger pieces of work (projects) or multiple pieces of work in terms of testing.

• Review and contribute to technical designs, describing the solution to fulfil functional specifications to ensure traceability to business requirements. This covers application, data and infrastructure components of the solution.

• Participate in inception and estimation sessions to develop cost and effort estimates on the proposed solution and testing effort including implementation and costs of operation, or support team estimate processes.

• Create new automated tests for test data creation, in-sprint automated testing of new functionality, automated shakeout testing of the continuous integration pipeline, and robust automated regression testing.

• Continue to expand and create the platform test automation framework and test assets.

• Problem solve daily issues for the team, leading to a continuous improvement cycle.

• Communicate and report on testing activities to senior internal and external stakeholders.
  
  

Ngā uara me ngā pūkenga e angitu ai koe | What you'll need to succeed

• Experience in planning, coordinating and reporting on test efforts for projects.

• Experience in context-based and risk-based testing of complex business applications

• Expertise in the use of a BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) framework based on Cucumber

• Experience in using automation tools such as Selenium and Capybara for UI interfaces, Mongoid for data handling, contract testing, etc.

• Programming expertise in Ruby and Java

• Experience with API Testing and SOAP.

• Experience in use of databases – RDBMS as well as NoSQL databases such as Mongo.

• Experience in the Insurance industry

• Documenting process flows

• Ability to coach and mentor team members and foster an enaged team environment.
  
  

Me aha koe ināianei | What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
E: Giovana.Piazzetta@hays.net.nz | 09 884 1523