Quality Assurance Engineer - Digital
Ko wai mātou - About us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!
With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.
Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”
Te Tūranga - About the role
At Foodstuffs North Island (FSNI), we’re redefining digital experiences for millions of Kiwis. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our Agile Delivery Squad, ensuring our web and mobile apps exceed expectations. You won’t just test-you’ll innovate, automate, and elevate our quality standards. As part of the FSNI QA Practice, you’ll shape best practices and push the boundaries of what’s possible in testing. Ready to make an impact? Let’s build something amazing together!
What you’ll do
-Own the quality - Collaborate with your squad to embed excellence at every stage of development.
-Think beyond testing - Design and execute high-impact test plans that tackle complex business and technical challenges.
-Automate like a pro - Build and enhance cutting-edge test automation frameworks, driving an automation-first mindset.
- Be a quality evangelist - Work it your Lead(s) towards improvements, influence best practices, and drive innovation across FSNI’s QA Practice.
-Deliver seamless experiences - Identify and resolve defects, optimize test environments, and proactively ensure flawless product releases.
-Test Data identification - Identify test data requirements across different environments and work it your QA Lead to raise any test data dependency.
If you’re passionate about pushing boundaries, pioneering new ways to test, and delivering world-class digital experiences, we want to hear from you!
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits:
- Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including 36 free EV plugs
- Southern cross health insurance,
- Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
- Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
- Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
He kōrero mōu - About you
You’re a passionate QA professional who thrives in collaborative, Agile environments. You have a keen eye for detail, love solving complex challenges, and are always looking for ways to improve processes and automation. Your ability to communicate technical concepts effectively allows you to engage with stakeholders across the business, advocating for quality at every stage.
What you’ll bring:
- Technical expertise - Proven experience in UI and API testing, Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), and test automation frameworks like Playwright, Appium, Cucumber/BDD, or Postman.
-Coding & CI/CD knowledge - Comfortable with Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and familiar with CI/CD tools like Bamboo, GitHub, and Bitbucket.
-Problem-solving mindset - Strong understanding of defect management, software failures, and troubleshooting across squads and business units.
-Collaboration & communication - Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, explain complex integrations, and advocate for quality-focused solutions.
-Previous experience of working in e-commerce is preferred.
Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected]. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
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