About the Opportunity
We’re partnering with a technology-led organisation at a genuine inflection point. A legacy platform is being actively retired, with focus shifting to modern platforms, improved tooling, and more intentional engineering practices.
To support that transition, we’re looking for a Quality Engineer who is automation-first, thinks in systems, and cares deeply about platform health and reliability.
This is not a traditional manual QA role, and it’s not DevOps. It’s a modern Quality Engineering role in a small, highly collaborative environment where quality, reliability, and delivery are shared responsibilities and where people take real ownership of the platforms they support.
You’ll be embedded within a close-knit engineering team, working day-to-day with developers and platform specialists. Quality isn’t a gate at the end here it’s part of how the platform is designed, built, and operated.
We’re looking for someone who naturally looks at system health: where APIs might be failing, where performance or run-time is degrading, and what signals in logs, metrics, or alerts suggest risk before it becomes an incident. You’ll help the team reason about reliability during change, not just test for it.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Designing, building, and maintaining automated test suites, with a strong focus on Cypress
- Supporting quality and stability as legacy systems are decommissioned and new platforms are introduced
- Monitoring platform health using logs, metrics, and alerts, and contributing to observability practices
- Identifying failure points early (API issues, performance bottlenecks, integration risks) and helping resolve them
- Contributing to improved engineering standards, test strategies, and ways of working
- Working closely with engineers in a hands-on, collaborative team environment
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for someone who enjoys improving systems, not just testing them.
- Strong automation testing experience, with the ability to design and maintain automated test frameworks
- Experience working in a SaaS environment (essential)
- Experience working with or testing distributed systems (required)
- A quality engineering mindset, thinking about reliability, performance, and failure modes rather than just test cases
- Exposure to performance testing (desirable)
- Comfort working with logs, metrics, monitoring tools, or observability platforms
- A collaborative approach and strong communication skills
- A proactive, adaptable mindset and willingness to take ownership
Personality fit matters. This is a small, approachable team that values open communication, shared problem-solving, and people who are comfortable contributing across the stack.
What’s on Offer
- A role within a boutique, friendly engineering team
- The opportunity to be part of a meaningful platform transition and modernisation effort
- Real influence over how quality, automation, and reliability are embedded in new systems
- A collaborative, people-first culture with flexible working
If you’re a Quality Engineer who enjoys automation, thinks in platforms, and wants to work closely with engineers to build reliable systems during change, this is a genuinely interesting opportunity.
Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.
For any questions give Paulina a call on +64 27 206 3431 and quote Job ID: 17040 for a confidential chat.
To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.
At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.
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