{"id":2057334,"url":"https://alion.io/job/blinkpay-quality-engineering-lead","title":"Quality Engineering Lead","company":{"id":181731,"name":"BlinkPay","domain":"blinkpay.co.nz","url":"https://alion.io/company/blinkpay","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Auckland, New Zealand","Wellington, New Zealand"],"countries":["NZ"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":50000,"max_usd":100000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":11},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left Security","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-08T00:25:48Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-11T19:48:02Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Worker Type:\nPermanentHere at BNZ, it's about more than just banking. We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions through our promise \"If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way.\"\nWe support wellbeing, flexible working and have a generous leave offering. There is the opportunity for growth, learning and career development. No two days are the same.\nKo mātou tēnei | This is Us\nMeet the Engineering Excellence team - a newly forming team within BNZ Technology with a clear purpose: to lift the quality, consistency and confidence of engineering across BNZ Technology. We are building a team that brings together strong technical craft, pragmatic governance and a real focus on enabling others - and we have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Engineering Lead to help shape how quality engineering evolves at BNZ, including how we responsibly use emerging tools and practices such as AI-assisted engineering.\nMōteTūranga | About the Role\nWe sat down with the Engineering Excellence Enablement Manager (who you’ll report to), and they let us know the following about the role.\nThis is an enterprise-wide engineering practice leadership role focused on setting direction for how quality is engineered into software delivery at BNZ. Rather than owning testing for individual teams, you will focus on standards, practices, capability uplift and coaching that improve outcomes at scale. A key part of this role will be helping BNZ make effective, responsible use of AI-enabled engineering tools to improve quality outcomes, developer productivity, test coverage, insight generation and evidence-based decision making.\nThe role operates primarily through influence, enablement and evidence, rather than positional authority.\nWhat are some of the responsibilities in this role?\nDefine and evolve BNZ’s quality engineering strategy, standards and practices, including test automation, quality gates, test data, observability and CI/CD quality controls. \nPartner with delivery and platform teams to embed modern, shift-left quality practices into day-to-day ways of working, tooling and delivery governance. \nCoach engineers and quality practitioners, building strong communities of practice, practical learning pathways and consistent quality engineering behaviours. \nUse evidence, quality signals and delivery data to measure quality maturity, identify improvement opportunities, and connect engineering quality to delivery risk, assurance and release confidence. \nGuide the practical and responsible use of AI-enabled engineering tools to strengthen test design, automation, defect analysis, documentation, pattern identification and continuous improvement. \nTranslate emerging quality engineering and AI-assisted practices into pragmatic guidance, standards and coaching that teams can adopt consistently. \nWork across Technology to ensure quality expectations are integrated into standards, tooling and engineering practices in a way that supports safe, reliable and efficient delivery. \nQuality engineering capability and career progression\nThis role will help shape what great quality engineering looks like at BNZ, and how engineers build the skills, confidence and career pathways to deliver it consistently. You will play an important part in making quality capability visible, practical and repeatable across teams by contributing to:\nClear expectations for quality engineering capability across roles and levels, aligned to BNZ’s engineering standards and modern delivery practices. \nCareer pathways that show how engineers can grow quality skills as part of their broader engineering craft, rather than treating quality as a separate specialist silo. \nPractical coaching, learning pathways and communities of practice that help teams build quality in as they work, rather than relying on downstream testing. \nGuidance on how AI-assisted tools can be used responsibly to support test design, automation, analysis and learning as part of ongoing capability growth. \nAlignment between quality standards, training investment and progression expectations, so capability uplift translates into stronger engineering outcomes. \nWhat will success look like for the candidate in this role?\nSuccess in this role looks like consistent, repeatable quality engineering practices across Technology. Teams have clear test strategies, automation is effective and trusted, and quality gates are embedded into CI/CD in a way that supports delivery rather than slows it down. AI-enabled engineering tools are being used responsibly and effectively to strengthen quality practices, improve insight, and support better delivery decisions. There is measurable uplift in quality maturity, stronger assurance signals, and increased confidence in releases, reflected in reduced incidents and rework.\nWhat skills& experience would be beneficial?\nStrong technical credibility across modern quality engineering and test practices. \nExperience defining or evolving quality standards in a complex or regulated environment. \nDeep understanding of SDLC, shift-left testing and automated quality controls. \nAbility to influence and coach engineers and leaders without relying on formal authority. \nComfort using data and evidence to drive change and prioritisation. \nA pragmatic mindset that balances speed, quality, risk and assurance. \nPractical experience using AI-assisted engineering or quality tools to improve software delivery outcomes, with sound judgement around responsible use, risk management, data protection and governance. \nNau Mai kitePēkeo Aotearoa/ Come to the Bank of New Zealand\nPlease note applications close Wednesday 19th August 2026.\nThis is an exciting opportunity to join us! We're bold thinkers who are taking brave steps to create a company that people want to work for, and customers want to bank with. If you're ready to join a fun organisation where we are proud of our culture and how we are helping New Zealander's to 'Find their way', then show your interest by submitting your application - we can't wait to read it.\nEhara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini\" - Success is not the work of an individual, but the work of many.”\nClosing Date: 21 October 2026Applications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6357,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T00:25:48Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":15,"reasons":["conf:6","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/blinkpay-quality-engineering-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/blinkpay-quality-engineering-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T23:07:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13665,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":181731},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=181731"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fblinkpay-quality-engineering-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fblinkpay-quality-engineering-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fblinkpay-quality-engineering-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/blinkpay-quality-engineering-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fblinkpay-quality-engineering-lead"}]}