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You will actively oversee and participate in the delivery of quality outcomes by designing, developing, maintaining, and executing automation and functional test solutions using modern tools, best-practice techniques, and agile quality engineering practices.\nThis is an automation-led role requiring strong hands-on experience in automation, API and integration testing across complex enterprise environments.\nAs a senior member of the team, you'll provide technical leadership, mentor and coach other engineers, and champion continuous improvement across testing and quality practices.\nAs Westpac continues to evolve its engineering capabilities, you'll also have the opportunity to leverage AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve efficiency, accelerate delivery, and enhance quality outcomes.\nThis is an exciting opportunity to influence quality outcomes within a large-scale transformation programme. We are looking for someone who is passionate, embraces innovation, and enjoys solving complex problems in a collaborative environment.\nNā tāu rourou | What will you bring?\n5+ years' recent and relevant experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, or Software Testing.\nStrong experience defining, implementing, and continuously improving quality engineering practices, standards, and test strategies.\nExperience coaching, mentoring, and performing quality reviews to uplift team capability and promote engineering best practices.\nStrong hands-on automation experience, including automation framework design, development, maintenance, and CI/CD pipeline integration e.g., CloudBees\nStrong programming experience in Java.\nStrong API and integration testing experience, including automated API validation using frameworks such as Rest Assured.\nStrong SQL skills with experience validating data across multiple systems.\nHands-on performance testing experience using JMeter.\nExperience testing microservices, distributed systems, and end-to-end integrations.\nExperience with risk-based test design, end-to-end traceability, defect management, root-cause analysis, and remediation validation.\nExperience using Git and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.\nStrong understanding of release governance, quality risk management, and operational readiness practices.\nExperience producing quality metrics, test reporting, and audit-ready testing evidence to support delivery and release decisions.\nDesirable experience in Lending or broader banking domain knowledge.\nKo mātou tēnei | Our Organisation\nAt Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. 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