Chapter Lead

3 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Spark New Zealand Full time

**Chapter Lead Test Engineering = Enterprise Application, Product Tribe**

As a Chapter Lead Test Engineering, you will architect, build, and maintain robust, maintainable test automation frameworks that support our Automation First principle. You will lead our Test Automation and Continuous testing efforts, working with DevOps engineers to integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines and drive the adoption of automation first principles and continuous testing throughout the development lifecycle.

You will have the opportunity to mentor and coach other members of the testing organization, stay up to date with the latest developments in test automation, and build relationships with key senior management stakeholders. With strong software development skills, including experience with JavaScript and a solid understanding of software development principles and practices, you will have the opportunity to grow and advance your career within our dynamic and innovative team.

This person will be accountable for leading our Test Engineering Chapter and leading us to be our core principles of:

- Automation First
- Continuous Testing
- Release when Ready
- Shift Left

**About Spark**
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It's our culture which makes Spark such a great place to work so we will be looking for individuals that contribute to that. When you join Spark, you get to be part of an organisation with a clear purpose, where you know the contribution you can make, as our success depends on our people being deeply engaged. When you join Spark, you'll have a clear sense of how your work is making a difference to the lives of our customers. And whilst we get stuck in and get things done, it's not without taking some time to have fun. We are an inclusive company where everyone can relax and be themselves. We can offer you flexible working conditions, excellent benefits as well as working in a high performing team.

**About The Role**

As a Chapter Lead Test Engineering, you will have a strong background in software development, technical leadership, and experience as a developer, software engineer, or tech lead. You will be responsible for leading our Test Engineering Chapter and driving the adoption of automation first principles, continuous testing, and agile methodologies throughout the development lifecycle. Along the way you will be working on challenging, complex problems requiring collaboration and engineering effort to be successful in solving.

Key responsibilities:

- Embody a growth mindset and contribute to a continuous improvement culture within the organisation
- Work in an agile environment, collaborating closely with development teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality software.
- Strong software development skills, including experience with JavaScript and a solid understanding of software development principles and practices
- Previous experience as a Developer, Tech Lead, Test Automation Architect, or similar role

**About you**:
While you're a talented individual who can operate comfortably alone, when necessary, you're a team player that can work across all elements of this key engagement. With a flair for building key relationships and stimulating change, you seek continuous improvement both within our business and with your customer.

As Chapter Lead your accountabilities will include being competent in coaching and developing people to build distinctive capabilities and craft and supporting them while we move into our principles of automation first and continuous testing.

You will be a technical expert, able to communicate simple and complex solutions to people at different levels and you have a desire to coach and support people to be future technical leaders.

**You'll also bring with you some of the below**:

- Proven record of working with BDD and TDD and can work alongside the software development team embedding best practice, quality focussed processes
- A proven record of overseeing the definition, selection and extension of test automation architecture, frameworks, coding standards, and Automation Testing Strategies

that support our Automation First Principle
- Exposure to operational excellence in core disciplines and testing methods including Agile, DevOps and Waterfall as well as experience in automating, web, mobile, API, database as well as experience in BDD and TDD
- Experience with JavaScript and other coding languages
- Collaborating with development teams to drive the adoption of automation first principles and continuous testing throughout the development lifecycle
- Working with DevOps engineers to integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure that automated testing is included in the development process
- Identifying and prioritizing areas for automation, such as manual tests or user journeys, and leading the effort to automate them
- Providing guidance and mentoring to other members of the testing organization on best practices and standards for test automation
- Continuously monitoring industry tre


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