Senior Test Engineer

Are you a customer focused Test Engineer who has the drive to move us forward with a shift-left and automate-first approach
- Ability to work across an innovative multi-agency Product, a unique opportunity in the New Zealand Public Sector
- Be a part of making genuine change to how we deliver value to our customers and users
- Flexible working + 3 extra Customs' service leave days

Whakapuakanga Tangata Haere ki Aotearoa | New Zealand Traveller Declaration
The New Zealand Traveller Declaration (NZTD) is the new digital form used to collect information from travellers arriving into Aotearoa New Zealand via air and sea. It helps us ensure that people are only bringing in what they should be into our country; improving the safety and security of New Zealand.
The opportunities for how we can now evolve our product to positively impact these travellers and all the Border Protection agencies involved in their journey, is endless. Our vision is for a modern, digital, and streamlined border into New Zealand that supports seamless travel by air and sea.
To help us achieve this inter-agency vision, we are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Test Engineer to join our newly established NZTD team. We are looking for an experienced individual who can deliver the test function for this product and drive testing improvements across the team.
The Senior Test Engineer will work across multiple agencies and provide evidential assurance that what is, being delivered to the customer is meeting functional and non-functional requirements, secure, stable and fit-for-purpose.
If you thrive in a complex environment and have a passion for continuous improvement and making genuine change, we want you on our team

**What we value in the NZTD Tower**:

- Being customer / user focused to determine needs versus wants
- Organising around value being delivered
- Leveraging data to make more effective decisions
- Visibility and transparency
- Focusing on delivering value earlier over increasing delivery velocity
- Empowering and enabling our people and teams
- Embracing diversity, inclusion, and belonging for our people.

**Great additions to the NZTD Tower will**:

- Use direct and effective communication and are collaborative in all you do
- Respectfully collaborate, compromise, and work together to achieve shared outcomes
- Do what you say you will, and actively self-evaluate to continually grow and develop
- Value honesty in others and yourself, and in turn are able to hear, adapt, and give constructive feedback
- Care about people's wellbeing
- Understand that everyone has a voice and every voice counts
- Not be afraid to give things a go - even if it is unsuccessful, we have learnt something.

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role
Reporting directly to the Product Owner (NZTD) and working with the NZTD Test Lead and Customs IS Test Practice Manager, the Senior Test Engineer will actively help take us on a journey towards a fully integrated, fully automated testing function that covers our product's stack to optimise our path to production and reduce the risk of defects.
You develop test automations and frameworks to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of both the test practice and the product itself. Working collaboratively with other members of the team to help grow our unit testing capability and with our inter-agency partners to ensure our end-to-end testing is fit for purpose.
To be successful as Senior Test Engineer the following knowledge, experience, skills and personal attributes are required:

- Strong experience in test automation fundamentals, programming languages, SQL, database concepts, web services, how to test APIs, service behaviour and testing non-functional requirements
- Proficiency in programming skills, knowing various programming concepts, recognizes risks in code and software architecture and create test plan elements to mitigate those risks through static analysis and dynamic analysis
- Significant experience with DevOps implementations and continuous delivery (to reduce the manual test-effort); assisting Developers build improved Unit tests
- Experience to continuously evolve and improve, migrating manual tests to test automated pyramid model or similar and other best practices.
- Ability to assist and back-up the Test Lead to produce Test Plans and Test Exit reports consumable by both technical and business audiences
- ideally has (but not essential):

- familiarity with Agile, Product Management and ITIL methodologies, and tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Selenium

Mahi ki te Mana Ārai o Aotearoa | Working at Customs
We aim to create a great place to work, where our people have a sense of belonging and the capability and desire to meet our future challenges. We are an organisation that is clear about our mission and this is underpinned by Te Pou Tokomanawa (the Foundations) and our Whanonga Pono (Values). Our work really matters to the safety and success of New Zealand.
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