Senior Automation Test Analyst

Location: Wellington, New Zealand

About Us | Mō mātou 

Enterprise Services | Nuku Toiere plays a pivotal role in shaping how the organisation operates and succeeds. As an enterprise-wide function, the branch delivers high-impact services across legal, finance, people and culture, communications, technology and strategy, governance and risk, supporting informed decision-making and strong organisational performance.

The role | Te tūnga 

We're recruiting for two Senior Automation Test Analyst opportunities, with one role specialising in Test Automation and the other specialising in Performance Testing.

Both roles play a key part in delivering high-quality, reliable digital products and services. Working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional team, you'll lead testing activities across the software delivery lifecycle, helping to embed quality into every stage of delivery through modern testing practices and continuous improvement.

Depending on your area of expertise, you'll either design, develop and maintain automated testing solutions, or lead performance testing activities that improve the scalability, resilience and reliability of our systems. You'll work closely with developers, architects and delivery teams to integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, provide technical leadership, mentor others, and help strengthen testing capability across the organisation.

The remuneration range for this role is $125,145 - $155,736, with the ability to appoint higher on the band, dependent on capability and experience.

What you bring | Nōu te rourou

For both opportunities, you'll bring:

Proven experience in software testing, including test planning, scripting, execution, monitoring and analysis. 

• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices, ideally using Azure DevOps. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and continuously improve testing practices. 
• Experience coaching or mentoring others and contributing to quality engineering practices. 
• Experience working in enterprise environments, with exposure to cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS, Docker or Kubernetes being an advantage. 
• Demonstrated ability to extend and maintain complex test automation suites (adding tests, updating existing ones and triaging issues as systems change)

You'll also have expertise in one of the following specialisations:

Test Automation

• Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks and tools such as (eg: Selenium, NUnit, SpecFlow, TestNG) using languages such as C# or Java. 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines integrating automation tests into delivery processes.
• Demonstrated ability to extend and maintain complex test automation suites (adding tests, updating existing ones and triaging issues as systems change)
• Experience mentoring, coaching and uplifting test capability within teams.

Performance Testing

• Proven experience in performance testing, including planning, scripting, execution, monitoring and analysis. 
• Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter and the ability to analyse results and identify opportunities to improve system performance and scalability.
• Experience working with modern architectures (APIs, Microservices) and integrating performance testing into delivery pipelines.
• Proven ability to conduct load, stress, spike and endurance testing, and identify system bottlenecks across application, database and infrastructure layers.

For you | Mōu 

At the Department of Internal Affairs, we are committed to offering a collaborative and innovative culture where your perspective and ideas will be welcomed. We want our people to thrive within a culture of best practice, while being able to set and achieve goals and being encouraged to challenge the status quo.

To learn more about the diverse, important mahi we do at the Department and see why we're a great place to work check out our website https://www.dia.govt.nz/ 

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How to apply | Me pēhea te tuku tono 

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Applications for this role close 5pm, Friday 31 July 2026. Please also note that you must have New Zealand Citizenship to be considered for this role. 

If you have any questions, please email Paul Cant – Paul.Cant@dia.govt.nz 

Drive automation, performance and quality across enterprise systems