The Automation lead role in Datacom is a newly created position and we’re looking for a creative and energetic leader to partner with the QA Manager to build a greenfield automation practice.
This is your chance to be part of a new growth area of Datacom’s award-winning Microsoft and Azure division. We offer a great culture, a brand new Wynyard environment and one of the best packages in Auckland!!!
About the role:
You will be experienced in BDD/TDD and passionate about transforming our customer’s ways of working, able to educate, drive outcomes and take quality ownership in a CI/CD environment.
You will also be confident in business conversation and capable of building a team that can effectively service customer need that can range from legacy regression packs to automation frameworks across multiple Lean/Agile streams. There will be hands on!
- At least 3+ years experience of working within a testing leadership or management position.
- Strong track record of building automation frameworks across various technologies and at different scales (startup to enterprise)
- Proven in lean/agile frameworks in large complex organisations.
- Must have experience with the Microsoft stack, however in general be tool-agnostic and flexible across technologies.
- Demonstrate integration and API experience across tools and test frameworks
- Prefer technical background, ex developer with full-stack experience
- Strong understanding the QA tool landscape in technologies such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Git, Cucumber Selenium, Spring, Java REST API, SOAP UI, Jira, Zephyr, Confluence, TestNG, and experience of one or more of the suite tools: HPQC, Rational, Silk, TestComplete, Ranorex or similar.
About you:
As this is a senior position, we need someone who comes from a proven background of driving growth, leading innovation and building a team from bottom up. You will be technically savvy, have strong commercially nous and a passion for working with clients!