Software Tester

**About Us**

At Seequent, we help organisations to understand the underground, giving the confidence to make better decisions faster.

We build world-leading technology that is at the forefront of Earth sciences, transforming the way our customers work. Every day we help them develop critical mineral resources more sustainably, design and build better infrastructure, source renewable energy, and reduce their impact on the environment.

We operate in 145+ countries while proudly maintaining headquarters in New Zealand.

**The Role**

A Software Tester I applies their skills and works closely with their cross functional teams to ensure amazing experiences for our customers. They solve problems and assist the team with ensuring the delivery of quality solutions.

**Duties and responsibilities**

**Functional Testing**
- Assist in designing functional test cases and creating test scripts.
- Support the preparation of test data for functional testing under supervision.
- Configure test environments to reflect realistic use cases.
- Execute and record manual and automated functional tests, analyse results and report on findings, issues and risks.

**Software (Test) Design**
- Create and document detailed designs for simple software tests or components.
- Contribute to the design of components of larger software test systems, ensuring alignment with overall design requirements, including security.
- Review own work.

**Application Support**
- Assists with specified maintenance procedures.

**Release Management**
Assist with release management tasks.
- Support the collection of data and information for release planning and scheduling.
- Assist in the preparation of release materials and resources. Help document and maintain records of release activities.
- Participate in basic testing and quality assurance tasks and issue resolution.

**To be successful in this role, the following technical qualifications, experience, and skills are required**:

- Relevant tertiary qualification, or equivalent.
- 3+ years working in relevant Software Testing roles
- Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps practices

**Technical Stack**
- Case tracking & documentation & design
- Atlassian - Jira, Confluence, Zephyr Squad
- Miro (brainstorming)
- Figma (prototyping)
- Testing - nice to have:

- Git (automated tests)
- Fiddler/BurpSuite or similar
- Postman (API)
- TeamCity

**In addition, you should have the following attributes**:

- Work under direction, use discretion, seek guidance in unexpected situations, and plan work within short time horizons.
- Interact with immediate colleagues, customers, suppliers, and partners, and have awareness of the need to collaborate with the team and represent users' and customers' needs.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills, understand and uses appropriate methods and tools, demonstrate an organized approach to work, has sufficient digital skills, identify development opportunities, and adhere to organizational standards for security, privacy, and ethics.

**Working conditions**
Your team and particularly your Lead Software Engineer is here to provide support, direction, and inspiration. You will also work with and obtain support across the entire Seequent team and from external parties. This is an office-based role, and you are required to be in the Christchurch Seequent office three days a week.

Tier 3, after hours support may be required on occasion. Seequent has committed to providing a well-supported and professional office environment. Therefore, the budget will be in place to ensure this commitment is met.

Seequent will provide you opportunities to extend your professional skills by giving you ownership of projects. We will also support your development with a mixture of on-the-job coaching and external training.

**Additional Information**

Office-based working environment, work from our Christchurch, New Zealand office three or more days per week.

**Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion**

At Seequent, we champion the uniqueness of each individual. Our commitment to inclusiveness, equity, and accessibility is fundamental to who we are. If you require accommodation during our recruitment process, please let our Talent Acquisition team know. We are here to ensure a fair opportunity for all.

**Benefits of being a Seequenteer and why you’ll love being on our team.**

We aspire to be pioneers of positive change in the way organisations work with the underground. We work collaboratively, stay curious, make change happen and have a global impact. We bring our authentic selves to work and are enthusiastic about what we do. Plus, you can expect great benefits; these benefits are unique to each location Seequent resides in. Please ask your Talent Acquisition Specialist.

**How to apply