Quality Assurance Lead

at  The Warehouse Group

WELCOME! KIA ORA

The Warehouse Group (TWG) has become a Kiwi household name, and we proudly recognise the role that we play in communities throughout New Zealand. We are the largest general merchandise retailer in NZ with over $3 billion in sales, and employing over 12,000 people across The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming, and TheMarket.com.
We’re committed to continuing to shift our business radically and have a vision to make sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. We’ve already made good progress, but we are taking things a step further, putting sustainability at the heart of what we do, reducing our impact for the sake of our whanau, for Aotearoa, and for our planet.
To ensure we can adapt quickly to ever-changing customer needs, we’ve operate in a structure that focuses on collaboration, productivity, and speed-to-market.
Job Description
Working within the Technology Domain, we are on a journey to consolidate and optimize our test practice and are looking for a motivated experienced individual to take the reins on this and deliver on processes, tooling, frameworks in testing for both our inhouse teams and external partners.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the testing strategy for the organization
• Work with the development teams to collate and understand our current frameworks and practices
• Document and present our current testing landscape and areas of improvement
• Research industry best practices and tooling and make recommendations with reasoning
• Leverage our existing best practices in DevOps and Integrations
• Drive the execution of strategy for test environments, test management, tools to be used, frameworks and processes
• Bring the testers on this journey
• Educate and advocate the testing strategy to the development teams and vendors
• Monitor and measure the usage and effectiveness of the strategy to feed into the testing roadmap
• Build and leverage relationships with stakeholders for the long-term success of the testing strategy

Qualifications

To be successful in this we are looking for someone who has:

• A Senior tester with 10+ years of experience including including test case management, defect tracking, triages and reporting
• Proven experience as a tester working in different areas of the development lifecycle - planning, building, trials, releases
• Has demonstrated the ability to take initiatives and lead from ideation to completion
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to articulate to varying audiences and bring differing views to consensus
• Experience in multiple automation frameworks and tools
• Curiosity and ability to analyze and summarize research
• Deep familiarity with testing enterprise applications including erp, crm, edi, Data Warehousing

Additional Information
Why choose us:
Our teams normally work a mix of at home and office days, with most people working two days a week from home. We’ve got an awesome North Shore location with views across the water, and the all-important free car parking!
We offer a dynamic and supportive team environment within a business that wants the best for New Zealand’s people, communities, and the environment.
If you have the skills and mindset to help deliver to our vision then we would love to hear from you

• Lead the testing strategy for the organization
• Work with the development teams to collate and understand our current frameworks and practices
• Document and present our current testing landscape and areas of improvement
• Research industry best practices and tooling and make recommendations with reasoning
• Leverage our existing best practices in DevOps and Integrations
• Drive the execution of strategy for test environments, test management, tools to be used, frameworks and processes
• Bring the testers on this journey
• Educate and advocate the testing strategy to the development teams and vendors
• Monitor and measure the usage and effectiveness of the strategy to feed into the testing roadmap
• Build and leverage relationships with stakeholders for the long-term success of the testing strateg