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.
This role is based at our Auckland Airport Campus office.
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 on 2 August 2026.
Additional InformationAt 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."
Skills Required
- 5+ years experience as a Senior QA Automation within a technology business environment
- Significant experience testing software and developing a test strategy in complex environments
- Strong hands-on experience with Java automation frameworks
- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit, TestNG)
- Experience with CI/CD toolsets and practices
- Practical experience with test-driven development (TDD)
- Experience acting as a technical mentor to others
- Experience working collaboratively across software product teams
- Solid knowledge of QA methodologies, automation models, best practices and toolsets
- In-depth understanding of SDLC and first-hand Agile team experience
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
What We Do
Kia Ora, Ni Hao, Gidday, konnichiwa, Talofa, Bula, Hello and Welcome to Air New Zealand, your journey starts here. Air New Zealand is one of the world's leading airlines, known around the world, not just for our name and our innovation but also for our reputation. We are recognised as "New Zealand's Most Reputable Organisation" for our strong leadership, customer service orientation, innovation, brand, corporate values, and our role as a strong ambassador for New Zealand. Each year we make sure our passengers who fly to, from and within New Zealand enjoy our uniquely Kiwi way of doing things. At Air New Zealand, we are all about people. Ambitious, helpful, proud, down-to-earth, caring people, who look after the needs of more than 13 million people every year. We look at ways of making the experience better for our customers and allowing people to experience our New Zealand. Our people drive us to be among the world's best, frequently winning awards in all aspects of our operations, testament to the Air New Zealanders living this culture daily, in the way they deliver customer experience. Whilst it's led from the top, it is delivered by thousands of people, constantly doing things that make a big difference!
