Test Automation Engineer

Are you a customer focused Test Automation Engineer who has the drive to move us forward with a shift-left and automate-first approach
- Be a part of making genuine change to how we deliver value to our customers and users
- Pivotal role within our product delivery teams in Digital & Technology
- Flexible working arrangements available

Our Test Automation Engineers will actively help take us on a journey towards fully integrated and fully automated testing functions that covers our border product stacks to optimise our path to production and reduce the risk of defects.

You will also be working across agencies to provide evidential assurance that what is being delivered to the customer is meeting functional and non-functional requirements, and are secure, stable and fit-for-purpose.

Within Digital & Technology, our product delivery teams enable NZ Customs to protect our community, and our vision is for a modern, digital, and streamlined border. This supports seamless travel and trade and improves the safety and security of New Zealand by managing risks associated with the international movement of goods, people and mail.

**These are full-time permanent roles. Preference for these roles is to be based in Wellington.**

**About this role | Mō tēnei tūranga mahi**

Reporting directly to our Product Managers you will be part of collaborative cross-functional teams working on understanding our customer and user needs, maintaining and increasing coverage of our automation suites, managing testing delivery, and driving testing improvements across the teams.

The Test Automation Engineer role is pivotal to ensuring we can deliver value to our customers earlier and more often, and that we do this in a safe and confident manner.

In the short to medium term, we are wanting the Test Automation Engineers to align and plan across product delivery teams to grow our testing capability, lead an automation first test approach, and leverage best practice methodologies and tooling. This includes enhancing unit testing capability, regression suites, and performance testing to ensure our end-to-end testing is fit for purpose.

You also will ensure quality assurance delivery for our teams committed quarterly plan to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of both our test practice and the products themselves.

**To be successful as Test Automation Engineer the following knowledge, experience, skills and personal attributes are required**:

- Hands-on experience with all stages of the product life cycle of large scale, high availability systems.
- Strong experience in test automation fundamentals, programming languages, SQL, database concepts, web services, API testing, web UI and mobile app test automation, service behaviour testing, non-functional requirements, and experience executing and maintaining test suites in different automation frameworks.
- 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
- Demonstrated understanding of Testing best practices and approach differences when releasing to different environments within the SDLC and via a CI/CD pipeline.
- Significant experience with DevOps implementations and continuous delivery (to reduce the manual test-effort); as well as assisting Developers to 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 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

**_Note: this role may require on-call support, and out of normal business hours work on occasion._**

**Working at Customs | Mahi ki te Mana Ārai o Aotearoa**

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.

**We care about well-being, personal growth, and job satisfaction, which is supported through**:

- Fostering inclusive and supportive team environment with vibrant social and cultural groups
- Supporting flexible working - talk to us about how we can help you achieve your flexible working goals, within our operational requirements
- Providing discounted health insurance, and free on-site gyms (in some locations)
- Three days of service holidays, in addition to four weeks of annual leave

To join Customs in any role you must be a **New Zealand citizen or NZ permanent resident**. *
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