He kōrero mō mātou | About Watercare
Ki te ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata
When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy
There's never been a better time to join Watercare. We're delivering a $15.2 billion, 10-year capital investment programme, the largest in our history, creating opportunities to work on transformative infrastructure, sustainability and digital projects that will shape Auckland's future. With more than $4 million invested every day, you'll be part of work that makes a lasting difference to our communities and environment.
He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the role We have a number of permanent roles available in our Digital team for Senior Automation Test Engineers! This is a truly awesome team! Don't take our word for it, come find out for yourself. Watercare is involved in unique projects, and you will be working with people who are passionate about what we do! After all, water is one of the single most vital elements to a successful city. The office environment is modern, within a great location, right in the heart of Newmarket, and we operate a flexible/hybrid work model. Reporting to the Test Manager, the primary purpose of this role is to perform a hybrid of automation and manual testing duties in Watercare Digital. You will be working across the application delivery teams, engaging with stakeholders, develop and maintain the test automation framework and contributing to the test automation strategy. Key responsibilities will include: Contribute to the continuous improvement of our testing practices. Design, develop, maintain, and evolve optimal test automation solutions in the areas of UI, Integration, or Data. Collaborate with product owners and delivery leads to ensure appropriate test coverage of core functionality, API's and data. Engage with product owners to identify proper test acceptance criteria. Mentoring of junior members of the test automation team. Supporting a high-performance team culture. Perform both manual and automated testing. Generally, manual tests are created first of which some are identified for conversion to test automation. Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you To be successful in this role you will have: Tertiary level qualification in information technology or relevant area of study. Have a ISTQB Agile Tester or better certification. Strong experience in manual testing combined with test automation, and using Selenium Solid experience using Java code for test automation, working with cloud technologies AWS or MS Azure, Azure DevOps for test automation repos and pipelines, and working in agile delivery environments. Experience creating, maintaining, and improving test automation frameworks. Experience in leadership such as test lead (formal or informal). Skilled in test planning and proven ability to granulate large items of work into smaller tasks. A positive and proactive attitude who enjoys problem solving and engaging with agile squads. Enthusiasm about technology and a strong results/solutions focus.
Ngā hua mōu | What's in it for you
We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:
• Training and development opportunities
• Life and income protection insurance plans
• Generous parental leave
• Employee discounts at a range of large retailers
Me pēhea te tono mai | How to Apply
Come and join our team! If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team then please apply online today - careers.watercare.co.nz.
Skills Required
- Tertiary qualification in information technology or a relevant field
- ISTQB Agile Tester certification or higher
- Strong experience in manual testing and test automation
- Experience using Selenium
- Experience using Java for test automation
- Experience with AWS or Microsoft Azure cloud technologies
- Experience using Azure DevOps repositories and pipelines
- Experience working in agile delivery environments
- Experience creating, maintaining, and improving test automation frameworks
- Test leadership experience, formal or informal
- Test planning and ability to decompose large work items into smaller tasks
What We Do
At Watercare we’re proud to provide a lifeline service to the people of Auckland, while protecting the environment for future generations. Every day we provide the highest quality drinking water to 1.7 million Aucklanders, and take it away again once it’s been used in the sink or flushed down the loo. Without using chemicals, we treat wastewater to a very high standard and safely return it to the environment. We also plan for new and upgraded infrastructure far into the future to ensure we can meet the needs of our fast-growing city. We operate assets worth more than $9 billion – but it’s our people who are our most valuable assets. Our staff are passionate, motivated and trustworthy people who are the leaders in their fields. They’re not afraid of a challenge and are constantly looking for new ways of improving our processes and the service we offer our customers. If this sounds like you, please visit our careers centre to see our job vacancies and be notified of future opportunities: https://careers.watercare.co.nz
