Kia ora!
Step into a role where quality drives innovation and your expertise shapes digital experiences used by millions. As a Senior QA Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering reliable, high-performing solutions that support Air New Zealand’s ambition to be the world’s leading digital airline.
Air New Zealand is on an accelerated journey to transform how we build and deliver digital products. Within our QA team, you will work alongside talented engineers, architects, and product specialists to embed quality at every stage of the development lifecycle. This is your opportunity to influence how we test, automate, and deliver at scale, while contributing to an iconic brand known for innovation and customer excellence.
This role is based at our Auckland Airport Campus.
How you’ll make an impact
- Drive quality outcomes by embedding testing practices across the full development lifecycle, from idea through to release
- Design and implement scalable automation frameworks that improve speed, coverage, and reliability of testing
- Strengthen regression and automation suites to ensure consistent, high-quality releases across platforms
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to diagnose issues early and optimise software design for testability
- Shape the future of QA by contributing to automation strategy, tooling, and best practice standards
- Lead and mentor QA engineers, building capability and lifting overall team performance
- Champion continuous improvement, helping teams deliver faster while maintaining high quality standards.
What you’ll bring
- Extensive experience in QA automation within complex technology environments, ideally at a senior level
- Strong hands-on expertise with Java-based automation frameworks and modern testing tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit, or TestNG
- Proven experience designing and implementing test strategies in agile delivery environments
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development, and modern engineering practices
- Demonstrated ability to mentor others and uplift team capability
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to design innovative test solutions and troubleshoot complex systems
- Excellent communication skills, with a collaborative approach across technical and non-technical teams.
If you bring most of this experience, along with transferable skills and the drive to grow, we’d love to hear from you.
Ready for take-off?
Bring your passion for quality and innovation to a team that is shaping the future of digital aviation. This is your chance to make a meaningful impact at scale while growing your career with one of New Zealand’s most trusted and forward-thinking organisations.
Applications close 03/05/2026.
Additional Information
At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.
If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.
"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."
