Senior Test Automation Engineer

Role: Senior Test Automation Engineer

• Driving test automation at an enterprise scale
• Hybrid Working + Free Parking
• South Auckland Location

About the Role
Our client is a specialist quality engineering business whose mission is to orchestrate exceptional people, automation and AI to deliver better outcomes for their customers.

As they build their own AI-enabled testing capability, they are looking for a senior leader who wants to help shape the next generation of quality engineering. You will start with a major client in the logistics sector, then grow into a senior capability working across other high-profile clients.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead quality engineering engagements, building credibility quickly with technical and business stakeholders.
• Understand client challenges, see the bigger picture, and recommend what to do, why, and how automation and AI can improve the outcome.
• Design, build and evolve scalable automation frameworks, not just write automated tests.
• Lead the transition towards Playwright and modern Microsoft and cloud-aligned tooling, while working confidently within an existing Java, Selenium and Cucumber environment.
• Drive API automation and embed testing into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Apply AI across the QE lifecycle, from AI-assisted test generation and intelligent maintenance to test analysis and agentic approaches.
• Challenge thinking constructively, translate technology into business outcomes, and influence quality strategy.
• Contribute to the consultancy's growing AI-enabled testing offering and wider capability.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years' commercial testing and automation experience, ideally at Senior or Lead level.
• Strong coding capability and a solid understanding of automation architecture and framework design.
• Strong Playwright capability, or the technical depth to lead a transition towards it.
• JavaScript/TypeScript and/or strong OOP experience (Java or C#).
• Selenium and Cucumber experience, plus BDD using Gherkin, Cucumber or SpecFlow.
• API automation and testing capability.
• Strong CI/CD understanding, ideally GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Experience across regression, functional, integration, system and end-to-end testing.
• Excellent communication and consulting skills, with a track record of advising and influencing stakeholders.
• Genuine curiosity about AI and how it can transform quality engineering.

Nice to have:

• Practical AI experience in testing or QE (AI-assisted test generation, LLMs, coding assistants, agentic approaches, or AI in automation frameworks).
• Microsoft technologies and Azure cloud exposure.
• Performance testing (JMeter), mobile automation (Appium) and SQL.
• ERP/CRM automation across SAP, Salesforce or Dynamics 365.

How to Apply
If you are a technically strong test automation engineer who loves leading client conversations and is excited about where AI is taking our industry, apply now. We will be in touch if you are shortlisted for this opportunity.