Kaiwhakawhanake Matua Senior Analyst Tester

5 days ago


Canterbury, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Kaitātari Whakamātautau Matua | Senior Analyst Tester - 12-month fixed term
Play your part in contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
- Senior Analyst Tester with a focus on automation
- Bring your creativity, passion, innovation, and ideas
- Flexible working arrangements with focus on personal and professional growth
- 12-month fixed term role

Mōu | For you
Taturanga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, race, ability, religion, and background and encourage people to be their authentic selves.

**Salary range**: $86,827.00 - $101,000 negotiable on experience + superannuation
- Flexible by default, balance life and work commitments
- Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
- An environment where we can all be leaders, where your ideas and input are encouraged
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
- 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
- Free annual flu jab, eye tests and subsidized eyewear
- Join various social, network and support groups (toastmasters, multi-cultural, social club)
- City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs

Te tūnga | The role
This role is permanent based in Christchurch. Reporting to Technology Delivery Manager your focus is to provide expertise across functional and automation testing. Your will be working in a collaborative team environment with people from other disciplines.

**In this role you will**:

- Engage with our business to understand their needs and requirements, providing analysis and insights accordingly
- Conduct both manual and automated tests as appropriate to ensure the solution meets the business needs and achieves business outcomes
- Lead the development and maintenance of automation of repeatable processes and activities contributing to an improved experience for our users
- Mentor and coach others in the team to enable them to take a test lead role on or medium complexity solutions
- Provide direct support for our users to ensure the solutions they require are fully functional and provide the required experience
- Monitor solution against performance and user sentiment to identify trends or improvement opportunities, identify solutions, and work with your team to implement
- Provide support and ongoing optimisation of solutions already in production

Nōu te rourou | What you bring
We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience gained from outside of work e.g., whanau, church, sports, volunteering, or a comparable role in a different sector or industry.
We want to see the following in your cover letter and CV any information relating to:

- Why Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is the place for you, why us, and why Government?
- Examples of strong relationships you've built and how and why relationships are important.
- Examples where you've demonstrated leadership, e.g. lifted others up, led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, spoken up for yourself or others.
- Examples where you've shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, reflected on your own and other's behaviours, attitudes or motivations to learn.
- Where you've demonstrated customer centricity, everyone is a customer mentality, collaborated with others and invited feedback, spent time with diverse people and communities to broaden your views.
- In-depth knowledge of automated testing tools, eg JMeter Postman, SoapUI
- Quality control and quality assurances approaches
- Experienced in Scripting languages (e.g.PowerShell and Python)
- Any experience using Azure DevOps and CI/CD
- Test Driven Development and Business Driven Development
- Business Analysis skills to understand the problem and the business need
- Security monitoring and reporting
- Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
- Security minded
- Working in an agile team environment, with a DevOps mindset

Ko mātou | About Us
Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of around 1400 people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistical outputs to support the decisions that the Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs and New Zealanders make every day. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply
We realise we're asking you to submit a cover letter and CV that encourages you to be you We are truly committed to diversity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability.

Check out our careers site to find out more about Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ.



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