Test Automation Engineer at Southern Cross Healthcare

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

21 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

23 Oct, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Test Automation, Agile Testing, UI Testing, API Testing, Mobile Testing, CI/CD, Postman, C#, Selenium, RestSharp, Playwright, Visual Studio, Performance Testing, Cloud Environments, Azure, Mentoring

Industry

Insurance

Description

About us We're a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to transform ourselves and empower New Zealanders to live their healthiest lives. With almost a million members in our care, we are New Zealand's leading health insurer. We have an unstoppable focus, delivering outstanding experiences to our members in their time of need. This is an exciting time to be part of our journey and in return for your extraordinary talent, we'll provide a high performing values-based team environment where people are at our heart. About the role Join our Member Services Value Stream team as a Test Automation Engineer, where you’ll ensure the reliability, stability, and security of our software. You’ll focus on ongoing testing, automation, monitoring, and reporting to uphold quality standards and meet evolving customer needs. This role offers exposure to the latest technologies and collaboration across multiple teams. Key Responsibilities: Develop and maintain automated tests for UI, API, and mobile platforms using SCHS frameworks. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery. Ensure system quality, performance, and security through robust testing practices. Write clean, maintainable automation code aligned with SCHS standards. Collaborate with developers to optimize test coverage and efficiency. Analyse test results to identify issues and drive improvements. Enhance and maintain automation frameworks for scalability and sustainability. Promote automation strategy and continuous improvement within squads and the QA Community of Practice. Mentor QAs, share best practices, and foster a strong engineering culture. Participate in agile ceremonies to integrate testing throughout the delivery lifecycle. About you You have 5+ years of hands-on technical testing experience in an Agile environment. Skilled across system, integration, regression, end-to-end testing, and UAT support. Experience in developing, and maintaining automated tests using Postman, C#, Selenium, RestSharp, and Playwright within Visual Studio or similar IDEs. Familiar with CI/CD practices and tools such as Azure DevOps, with an understanding of release pipelines. Exposure to performance testing and cloud environments (Azure), with an appreciation of testing cloud-native applications. A continuous learner who stays up to date with new testing tools, technologies, and practices. Ideally hold relevant Testing, Agile, or Azure certifications. A collaborative team player who enjoys problem-solving and driving quality outcomes through automation. Ngākau nui. Āhurutanga. Tikanga. Join a proud diverse team, that's always there, always real, always true. If you thrive in a caring, honest and open culture, we think you’ll love working with us. We know that it is our team’s culture and wellbeing that will drive us forward. That’s why we prioritise not only professional development opportunities but opportunities to thrive personally, too. We offer exceptional work/life balance and our employees are encouraged to – and rewarded for – living well. Southern Cross employee benefits include: five days of wellbeing leave per year health insurance for you and your immediate whānau life insurance cover and discounts on pet and travel insurance extra parental leave benefits and financial wellbeing support participate in our workplace wellbeing programme. That’s not all. Need more time to study, volunteer or support your whānau? You’ll have the opportunity to purchase flexi leave. Each year, you will also get to take part in a volunteer day, to contribute to a cause or community with your team. Our commitment to LGBTQIA+ and minority communities is reflected in our culture, and we run a regular Diversity and Inclusion Forum to help ensure this continues to flourish. If you share our commitment and passion, then apply now! About us We're a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to transform ourselves and empower New Zealanders to live their healthiest lives. With almost a million members in our care, we are New Zealand's leading health insurer. We have an unstoppable focus, delivering outstanding experiences to our members in their time of need. This is an exciting time to be part of our journey and in return for your extraordinary talent, we'll provide a high performing values-based team environment where people are at our heart.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain automated tests for various platforms while ensuring system quality, performance, and security. Collaborate with developers to optimize test coverage and promote automation strategies within the team.