Senior Automation Tester

Auckland // Permanent / Full Time

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Our client is looking to add to their Test Automation capabilities. While exploratory, blackbox, system, and regression testing are all great, the right fit for this role will really be onboard the Automation (Playwright/Typescript) train. 
 
About the role
 
The organization is in need of both contract and permanent automation testers (You can take your pick!) to keep the wheels moving on multiple projects. 
 
The role spans both manual and automated QA, but really needs the automation side to shine through. This will be across both web and mobile, front and backend. So everything from UI bugs, to API auth bypasses should be on your testing list.
 
The right candidate will bring with them a little bit of that end to end leadership too. It’s less about getting tossed something from the developers, testing, then throwing it back over the fence, and more about being involved all the way from early discovery all the way through to production monitoring. 
 
What you will bring
 
You will have had a QA/Tester role that involved automation in the past. Preferably in Playwright/Typescript, but something like Cypress or Appium works too. 
 
Even though you can bury your head in code, you still come up to do the boring stuff like defect tracking in TestRail or Jira, writing up test cases (For manual testing or to be automated later), and in general providing that little bit of “control” so that developers don’t go off the deep end. 
 
A little bit of technical nouse such as experience with cloud systems like Azure/AWS, the ability to load up SQL Management Studio and do some basic SQL queries, or experience pouring through user logs to find common patterns in errors would be great too!
 
The ideal candidate will have a great attitude and never say “that’s not my job”.  
 
You will need all/most/able-to-fake-it of :

  • Experience with testing automation technologies for Web such as Playwright/Typescript, Cypress, Appium etc
  • API testing experience either through clicking around in live Swagger docs or automation experience with tools such as Postman or Restsharp
  • Experience doing QA the “old” way logging defects in TestRail/Jira, creating test cases etc. All that boring stuff still has to be done!
And some/none-but-willing-to-learn of :
  • Experience with automation testing on mobile platforms would be an advantage
  • Any experience setting up end to end pipelines in CI/CD tools to run automation suites would be great
  • Past ownership of release pipelines (Release train manager for example) or in general just owning that full lifecycle is always welcomed
  • Any talks at meetups, conferences, or a Github repository are always welcomed as knowledge sharing and lifting everyone up to a higher level is big here
 
Additional information
 
This role is based in Auckland CBD. The role is not fully remote, but is very much onboard with flexible working arrangements. A couple of days in the office a week would be the norm. 
 
The role is only open to candidates with existing working rights within NZ.
 
For more information on the role or to apply direct. [email protected] / 09 888 4188