Software Consultant - Testing

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Kia Orana, Malo e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu, Bula Vinaka and Namaste!

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.

Mo te tūranga | About the role

The Customer Tribe work across ASB Bank to drive automation for a variety of initiatives through specialist software. The tribe is a mix of collaborative experts who simply love enabling automation, making life easy for ASBers and our Customers.

As a Software Consultant - Testing, you will apply your experience to help lead the squads in building, supporting, and maintaining our applications and contribute to the overall testing processes within the project.

You'll be part of a program/ project on the forefront of working to deliver and support a secure, functional and performance ecosystem to our customers. In our diverse and accepting environment, our people grow their agile mind-set, learn, evolve and utilise their skills, while being empowered to make decisions. You'll have the opportunity to lead and get hands-on with some interesting and complex pieces of work that integrate on an enterprise scale.

We advocate agile, fully cross functional squads which will take you through all facets of engineering in any given day.

In This Role, You Will

• Reviewing requirements and specifications.
• Creating agile testing strategies and plans.
• Fostering proactive and continuous improvements within the testers’ community.
• Building and supporting test automation.
• Building and supporting performance testing.
• Working with key stakeholders for testing End to End and obtain sign0off.
• Verifying and validating functionality being developed.
• Analysing and reporting test results.
• Ensuring we are meeting our internal control requirements.

Ngā mea kia whai angitū ahau? | What do I need to be successful?

We are looking for an individual that will lead the testing within a large programme of work. Someone who not only understands good QA practice that includes engineered test automation & performance testing, but also someone who can provide non-line management leadership to squads. A person who can own and report the overall test status and provide QA guidance to the wider cross border domain squads, leaders, and stakeholders.

Our technical solutions, drive continuous change for the squads and customers to ensure we are delivering best possible outcomes. You will work collaboratively with our squads and stakeholders to be the voice of test engineering and deliver better & safer customer experiences.

We are looking for someone who has

• Proven knowledge across functional testing, system testing, integration testing, API testing, end to end testing, user acceptance testing, automation testing and performance testing.
• 2+ years of experience in event streaming platform.
• Create and maintain project level test strategies/ test plans that includes approach for technical testing (test automation & non-functional testing) components.
• Capture, track and escalate status, risks, and issues to management.
• Experience on test estimating, negotiating and prioritizing of work.
• Provide test sign off against test coverage, execution, defects, and risks.
• Develop strong positive stakeholder relationships over a continuous release stream.
• Develop sustainable and agile test processes that incorporate test automation.
• Manage complex integrated test environments and test data.
• Mentoring/ guiding on standards and best practices.
• In-depth technical capabilities to grow .Net / RestSharp / Selenium/ BDD test automation.
• Working knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Has foster proactive and continuous improvements to a testing community.
• Working with key stakeholders (internal/external) for testing end to end, user acceptance testing and obtain sign- off.
• 5+ years of experience of test management in Banking or similar industry.

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Financial / banking domain experience.
• Certified in ISTQB Fundamentals.
• Working experience in Kafka, Microservices and event streaming technologies.

He aha tā mātou | What can we offer

Get the work-life equation right. We know life is full of priorities, from soccer practice to side hobbies. 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 in meaningful ways, including comprehensive health insurance, wellness initiatives, parental and flexible leave, and customisable benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Bring your whole self to work every day. Whether you're into scrap booking, spontaneous karaoke sessions, or just hanging out with the family, ASB is working hard to create a culture where everyone feels safe, included and part of our shared purpose of helping Kiwi get one step ahead.

The whole "one step ahead" thing applies to you, too. With mentorship, flexible learning pathways, and opportunities to deepen your expertise, ASB is a place where you can take on exciting challenges and step forward to reach your goals, both in and out of office.

Me pēhea te tona | 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 you bring your unique strengths and enthusiasm to the team.

To be considered, all applications need to go through our online career channels and will be treated with confidentiality. Check out the position description to find out more.

We appreciate the time and effort you put into applying and will keep you updated throughout the process.