Senior Analyst Tester

Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes,

• New, hybrid role with room for growth
• Technical leadership role in a team of experts
• Bring your creativity, passion, innovation, and ideas to work on platform and infrastructure work
• Meaningful work contributing to systems used for producing official statistics

About Us | Ko mātou

Stats NZ | Tatauranga Aotearoa is a Central Government employer of 1300+ people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa – data that improves lives today and for generations to come. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.

What’s in it for you? | Ngā hua ka riro ki a koe

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about the Way We Work at Stats NZ and also check out our benefits. We want working for us… to work for you!

Starting salary: $90,599- $106,587 + kiwisaver

Other Benefits Of Joining Stats NZ Include

• Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
• Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
• 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
• City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs

The role | Te tūnga

This role is fixed term, based in Christchurch. Reporting to the Unit Manager - Statistical Infrastructure (SI), your focus is to provide dedicated testing expertise to the range of enterprise platforms which Statistical Infrastructure supports, including EPIC (Enterprise Processing Integrated Capabilities), MEP (Micro Economic Platform), Pentaho, SAS, R and Python. You will work with the SI team to deliver end-to-end testing for social and business survey data workflows, automating where possible. You will also contribute to the development, coordination, and implementation of our enterprise testing approach within a schedule of upgrades and enhancements. It is important to note that this is not a Technology Services/I.T role – you will be working on business-driven solutions from within the Insights and Statistics Group.

As a Senior Analyst Tester working in our team, you’ll contribute to:

• Creation of end-to-end automation tests;
• Writing and implementing test plans and cases to validate code;
• Leading implementation of the Enterprise Automated Test Framework;
• Introduce monitoring of tests;
• Championing best practise and use of enterprise testing tools and systems across StatsNZ’s statistical landscape e.g Azure DevOps, BDD, Python, GitLab;
• Developing, implementing and supporting continuous improvement of business process models, documentation, testing, deployment and Statistical Software Development Life Cycle procedures.

What you bring | Nōu te rourou

We understand transferable skills can come from experience gained from outside of work. We encourage you to be you in your application.

We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don’t need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us.

Tell us about yourself in your cover letter, what attracted you to this role, and what you would bring to Stats NZ.

How to apply | Me pēhea te tuku tono

If this sounds like you, click on the Apply now button to be redirected to the application page on our careers site. The position description is located on the right-hand side of the page.

We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interview. You may be asked to complete a pre-interview screen via phone or video. Please let us know in your application if we need to make any specific accommodations during our process.

Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: unsolicited CVs will not be accepted.