Quality Engineer Lead

Te Whiwhinga mahi The Opportunity 

Youll work across around three to four squads within an assigned business domain helping teams strengthen automation identify quality risks earlier and take shared ownership of quality throughout delivery. 

This is broader than a traditional embedded test and/or test automation role. Youll guide quality strategy automation standards and feedback loops while coaching software and data engineers to build quality into their work. To begin with there may still be times when you contribute directly to automated testing but youll be working toward oversight enablement and proactive quality engineering. 

• Support several squads with practical quality engineering guidance 
• Help software and data engineers adopt test-driven software engineering and automation-first practices 
• Shape test strategies standards risk decisions and useful quality measures 
• Improve automation reliability maintainability and CI/CD integration 
• Adapt the approach to different technologies rather than forcing one standard solution 

Qualifications :

Ko wai koe About You 

Youll bring strong quality engineering experience and a passion for helping teams deliver great technology outcomes. Youll likely already be working in an environment where automation engineering practices and quality are closely connected with your focus extending beyond traditional manual testing. 

Youre comfortable moving between technical depth and wider influence building strong relationships coaching others and helping teams continuously improve how quality is delivered. 

What youll bring: 

• Solid experience in quality engineering quality assurance or test automation within modern technology environments 
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery DevOps practices and modern software engineering principles 
• Experience supporting teams to improve quality outcomes through effective engineering and testing practices 
• The ability to build credibility with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike 
• Strong communication skills curiosity and a collaborative approach to problem solving 

Useful but not essential: 

• Experience working with cloud API data or digital platforms 
• Exposure to automation frameworks CI/CD pipelines or modern engineering tooling 
• Experience mentoring coaching or providing technical leadership to others 
• Relevant certifications in quality engineering Agile DevOps or related disciplines 

You dont need to tick every box to be successful in this role. If youve built strong foundations in quality engineering and youre curious adaptable and motivated to help teams deliver great outcomes wed love to hear your story.

Additional Information :

We support flexible working where it works for the individual the team and the business. Our main hubs are in Wellington Auckland and Tauranga and this role is best suited to someone who can work flexibly from one of these locations to enable strong in person connection and collaboration. While we do have smaller sites across other centres of Aotearoa proximity to a main hub is important for this role. 

Contact is not a place youll stagnate. Were growing evolving and investing in our people. We also offer a bunch of other perks like free health insurance cover boosted KiwiSaver access to Contact Shares a Good to be Home annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing a trail-blazing parental leave policy twice yearly payments towards our products if youre a Contact customer and more! 

Applications close on Monday 19th October. But just like peak demand great talent surges early so if this role sparks your interest power up your application now!

Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko) we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

Were committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued respected and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.

We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.

Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.

The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.

We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical mental financial and emotional wellbeing including flexible working arrangements employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.

At Te Mata Hiko we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age stage background and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.

Please note only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. Were not about box ticking so if you think you have what it takes but dont meet everything stated above please still get in touch. Wed love to kōrero.

Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time