About the Role
We’re looking for an Automation Tester to join a highly mature engineering environment where automation is the default. This role suits someone who has solid, hands-on automation experience and is comfortable working in a code-heavy testing setup rather than manual-first QA.
You’ll be joining a team already operating at 95% automation, so this is not a role for someone transitioning from manual testing — we’re after a tester who genuinely enjoys building, maintaining, and improving automated test suites across UI, mobile, and APIs.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks across web, mobile, and API layers
- Write clean, maintainable automated tests using Java (or similar OO language)
- Build and extend UI automation using Playwright
- Develop and maintain mobile automation using Appium
- Perform API testing (functional, integration, regression)
- Collaborate closely with developers, product, and other testers in an Agile, CI/CD-driven environment
- Actively contribute to improving automation coverage, reliability, and performance
- Analyse test failures, troubleshoot issues, and continuously uplift test quality
What We’re Looking For
- Strong hands-on experience as an Automation Tester (intermediate level)
- Commercial experience with:
- Java (or a similar language such as C#, Kotlin, etc.)
- Playwright for UI automation
- Appium for mobile automation
- API testing (e.g. REST, JSON, integration testing)
- Comfortable working in a highly automated environment with minimal manual testing
- Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines
- Solid understanding of testing principles, test design, and quality engineering
- Ability to work closely with engineering teams and contribute to shared ownership of quality
This role operates as a 4-day onsite model. The collaboration, culture and professional development are truly second to none. Please apply if this is the exciting start to the year you are looking for.
Apply Now!
To find out more, please get in touch Aata Kearns at +64 27 214 1035 & quote Job Id: 17168 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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