Senior Software Engineer

Te mahi ki ASB | Working for ASB
At ASB, we're all about doing what we can to help our customers get "One Step Ahead" by giving them the tools they need to manage their lives and plans for their families and future. We embrace innovation at speed, using modern tools and technologies to get us ahead of the game and stay there.

You'll be part of a team that are on the forefront of working to deliver and support a secure, functional and performant product that delights our customers every day. In our diverse and accepting environment, our people grow their agile and growth mind-set, learn, evolve, and utilise their skills, while being empowered to make decisions.

Mō te Tūranga | About the role
The Customer Tribe works across ASB Bank to drive automation for a variety of initiatives through specialist software like Pega. The platform is a mix of collaborative experts who simply love enabling automation, making life easy for ASBers and our Customers.

As a Senior Automation Test Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to get hands-on with some interesting and complex pieces of work, all while being part of a smaller squad in our innovation and platform area maintaining a high level of service and availability for all our applications.

You'll provide specialised testing expertise to a range of roles in the platform team and wider stakeholders. You will maintain and enhance our platform through your experience in incident management, bug identification, automation testing and handling Pega applications testing demands at scale.

You'll also work across reviewing requirements and specifications for enhancement builds and testing, security patching, vulnerability support, supporting the testing of new environments, analysing, reporting results and supporting our software's scalability.

Ō pūkenga | About you
You'll have great knowledge and experience in automation engineering, can articulate trade-offs between technologies and influence and challenge the SDLC.

Your positivity, all-around nice-person-ness, and excellent communication skills enable you to share your knowledge with others and actively participate in building capability wherever you go.

We are looking for someone who has:

• 5+ years of software automation test engineering experience
• Maintain / extend test automation solutions built with an object-oriented programming language for Web and APIs
• Complex enterprise systems experience
• Proven knowledge across functional, system, integration and end to end testing
• Produce/contribute/maintain test artefacts
• API testing experience using Postman or similar tool
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Good understanding and experience of working using Agile principles

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Define test strategies for distributed systems deliveries
• Web and API Test automation experience with C#
• Write/Execute Performance tests using Load Runner
• Financial/banking domain experience
• Certified in ISTQB Fundamentals

You'll be passionate about sharing your testing and BPM knowledge with other Engineers to build their skills and capability across the Engineering Practice.

He aha tā mātou | What can we offer?
We offer a competitive salary, great banking benefits, heaps of personal and career development opportunities, flexible working styles, extra holidays, and parental benefits.

We have a warm culture of caring people who all jump in to innovate and support each other. Our people grow their mindsets, learn, evolve, and utilise their skills while being empowered to make decisions

At ASB, we are committed to our vision and values of Integrity, Caring, Passion, Courage and United. Our strength comes from caring about our people, our customers, our community, and environment.

As a value driven organisation, we are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment, where we bring our different perspectives and strengths to achieve ASB goals together. We offer excellent career progression opportunities, a flexible and supportive culture; we help our people grow and celebrate together.

Finally, we offer a variety of challenges and exposure throughout ASB Bank in a large-scale environment, filled with passionate people, focussed on delivering world-class software and infrastructure services that help our customers.

Me pēhea te tono | How to apply?
If we've nailed our pitch and this role sounds like it might be the one for you then please click "apply"… we'd love to hear from you

Successful candidates will be required to undertake several pre-employment checks which will include but are not limited to; Police Check, Credit Check, AML Compliance, Verification of your qualifications and may include checks both here in New Zealand and overseas.