Quality Assurance Engineer

This role is vital in helping us deliver high-quality features and enhancements to the Holiday Houses and Findsomeone sites and technology stack. With your rapid, focused and efficient testing, we'll be able to continue ensuring our customers are getting the best out of their Trade Me experience.

Here is what you can expect from this role:

• Perform and document context-driven testing activities across all relevant platforms.
• You will guide the team's testing strategy, leveraging your knowledge of both exploratory and automated testing, adapted to the product's context and risks.
• Create and maintain suitable automated tests in accordance with the test strategy.
• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable automated test frameworks and suites within our CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate fully in agile delivery processes; assisting in analysis, design and development.
• Partner directly with developers and product owners in planning and design phases to build quality and testability from the start.
• Facilitate the deployment of cases to production, and support resolution of incidents.
• Facilitate production deployment and contribute to CI/CD improvements, and support resolution of incidents.
• Contribute, through knowledge sharing, peer review and mentoring to the capability of the test guild.
• Proactively experiment with test approaches to help evolve our practices and strategy.
• Continuously evolve our quality practices by experimenting with new tools and approaches, including AI-assisted solutions.
• Communicate actionable insights on product quality, risks, and release readiness to the team and wider stakeholders.
• Help engineers with their test planning and execution.
• Monitor production environments and triage possible bugs or anomalies.
• Investigate production incidents, identify root causes with data and observability tools, and integrate learnings into the development lifecycle.
• Support the team in customer facing activities
• Document new product features and assist the Head of Satellite Businesses in creating instructions for our customers

What you will bring to our team:

• Experience with test automation frameworks in API and web applications
• Proven, hands-on experience building scalable and maintainable test automation frameworks to provide rapid, reliable feedback on product quality.
• 3+ years' experience in similar roles, ideally with a mixed background of exploratory and automation testing.
• 3+ years' quality engineering experience, with a balanced skill set across both test automation and thoughtful exploratory testing.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies preferred, but not required.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and integrating tests to provide rapid feedback.
• Ability to design and implement test automation that covers multiple application layers, including UI, API, and database validation.
• Experience applying context-driven testing approaches would be ideal.
• We primarily use Playwright, TypeScript, and .NET-based BDD frameworks; experience with our exact stack is a bonus.
• Proactively explore and apply modern, AI-assisted tools and practices to help make our testing smarter and more efficient

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why: #Flexibility: Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week. #Leave: We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1. #Social: Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more. #Learning: Whether it's on the job, formal training, mentoring or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the "Why".

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.