Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

About the role

Kia ora! Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join its QA team at the Auckland Airport Campus. The role will support the airline’s digital transformation by ensuring high‑quality software delivery through both manual and automated testing.

Key responsibilities

• Participate in agile processes (Kanban, Scrum) from inception to release.
• Design, develop and execute new automation scenarios based on functional and technical requirements.
• Maintain and refactor existing automation and regression test suites.
• Apply software engineering principles to test engineering for sustainable test assets.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, QA peers and business analysts to diagnose issues and improve testability.
• Contribute to the strategic direction and roadmap of automation tools and processes.
• Ensure manual and automated tests follow established standards and guidelines.
• Facilitate user‑acceptance testing and verify that features meet stakeholder expectations.
• Coach and mentor junior QA engineers.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in QA automation within a technology‑focused environment.
• Proven ability to develop test strategies for complex systems.
• Experience mentoring technical staff and working cross‑functionally.

Required skills

• Strong hands‑on experience with Java automation frameworks.
• Automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit and TestNG.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test‑driven development.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, agile methodologies and quality assurance best practices.