Kia ora, Talofa lava, Kia Orana, Malo e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu, Bula Vinaka and Namaste!
Mō Mātou | About us
At ASB, we believe progress is more than just financial - it's about helping New Zealanders, communities, and our environment thrive together. We're a purpose-led organisation with a proud history and a clear vision: to support Kiwis in getting one step ahead. Our work is guided by strong values - care, courage and curiosity - and brought to life by a diverse team of people who genuinely care about making a difference.
As one of Aotearoa's most trusted banking partners, we combine the stability and scale of a large organisation with a culture that ensures you're recognised as an individual. Your ideas, your growth, and your contribution matter here - and you'll be supported to do meaningful work that has a real impact, every day
Mō te tūranga | About the role
We're looking for a Software Specialist - Testing to help drive quality, reliability, and operational excellence across our technology platforms.
Working across two squads within Modern Integration, you'll design and deliver automated testing solutions for APIs, SDKs, integrations, platforms, and distributed systems. Partnering closely with engineers and platform specialists, you'll help embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring solutions are resilient, observable, and production-ready.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll shape testing strategies, develop automation frameworks and tooling, influence engineering practices, and help drive the ongoing evolution of quality engineering across our platform ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Designing and implementing automated testing solutions across APIs, SDKs, integrations, platforms, and distributed systems.
- Developing reusable C# automation frameworks, tooling, and quality accelerators.
- Embedding automated validation into CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
- Defining testing strategies, quality standards, release readiness criteria, and risk-based testing approaches.
- Driving platform quality, operational readiness, and observability validation.
- Collaborating with engineers to improve developer experience, automation capability, and testing practices.
- Mentoring engineers and championing quality engineering best practices across teams.
Ngā mea kia whai angitū ahau | What will help me succeed
You'll be a senior Quality Engineering professional with deep expertise in automation, platform testing, and modern software delivery practices. You'll thrive in complex engineering environments, partnering with software engineers and platform teams to build quality, reliability, and operational excellence into every stage of the development lifecycle.
To Be Successful In This Role, You'll Bring
- 5+ years experience developing software solutions and automation frameworks using C#
- Strong hands-on experience testing APIs, SDKs, integrations, platforms, and distributed systems
- Proven experience designing and developing scalable C# automation frameworks, tooling, and quality accelerators
- Strong knowledge of GitHub, branching strategies, pull request workflows, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and automated quality gates
- Experience defining and implementing test strategies, quality standards, risk-based testing approaches, release readiness criteria, and quality reporting
- A strong DevOps and platform engineering mindset, with a focus on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement
- Practical experience with observability, including telemetry, logging, monitoring, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and operational readiness validation
- Knowledge of cloud-native architectures and modern engineering practices, including Kubernetes, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
- Experience working within agile, cross-functional engineering teams delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and champion quality engineering best practices
- A passion for mentoring others and growing engineering capability across teams
You'll Stand Out If You Have
- Banking or financial services domain experience.
- Experience working on large-scale modernisation or transformation programmes, including the migration, modernisation, or evolution of legacy platforms and services.
- ISTQB certification or another relevant quality engineering qualification.
He aha tā mātou | What can we offer
Get the work-life equation right. We know life is full of priorities, from family commitments to personal passions. We're here to help you find balance with a flexible and supportive working environment.
What's important to you is important to us. We support your wellbeing through comprehensive health insurance, wellness initiatives, parental leave benefits, flexible working arrangements, and a range of employee benefits.
Bring your whole self to work every day. We're committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to contribute.
The whole one step ahead thing applies to you too. With ongoing learning opportunities, career development pathways, and access to modern technologies, you'll have every opportunity to continue growing your expertise and career.
Me pēhea te tono | How to apply
We know great people come from all sorts of backgrounds, and you don't need to tick every box to apply. What matters most is the unique perspective, skills, and enthusiasm you'll bring to our team.
To be considered, all applications must be submitted through our online careers channel and will be treated with strict confidentiality. We appreciate the time and effort you put into applying and will keep you updated throughout the recruitment process.
