Quality Assurance Engineer

About The Role:

We are seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer to join our In-house Development team. This team builds custom software solutions that support Tuatahi’s fibre network, including APIs, integrations, services, and customer portals.

Working as part of the In-house Development team, you will collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Software Engineers and other delivery teams to help ensure changes work seamlessly across integrated systems. You will contribute to end-to-end quality by validating cross-system workflows and helping deliver reliable business and customer outcomes.

A defining aspect of this role is translating business requirements into clear, concise Gherkin behavioural scenarios that become living specifications for development, testing and automation. Success requires understanding both the business intent and the technical design, enabling you to define observable behaviour before development begins and helping build quality into every user story.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Ensure the quality of changes across custom in-house solutions, including APIs, integrations, services, and customer-facing portals.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts and Software Engineers to refine acceptance criteria into executable Gherkin behavioural scenarios that become living specifications for development, testing and automation.
• Own the creation and maintenance of clear, concise Gherkin behavioural scenarios for your team's user stories, ensuring they accurately describe the observable behaviour owned by your team while taking account of system boundaries and the technical design.
• Support automation by collaborating with Software Engineers to build and maintain automated tests within CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide clear quality insights, defect trends, and risk indicators that support informed decision-making.

Your unique contribution:

You will bridge business requirements and technical delivery creating Gherkin behavioural scenarios that become living specifications, providing a shared understanding of expected behaviour across Product, Development and Quality Engineering.

Success in this role comes from understanding both the business intent and the technical design, enabling you to define precise behavioural scenarios before development begins.

You will also need:

• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent practical experience in modern software quality engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in software testing or development with strong knowledge of modern testing methods and tools.
• Demonstrated experience using Gherkin, BDD or Specification by Example to create clear behavioural specifications that drive development and automated testing.
• Strong understanding of API testing, integration testing, and testing for distributed systems.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.

At Tuatahi, we invest in your growth. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements, apply anyway, there’s plenty of opportunity to develop your career with us!

Why Tuatahi is the Place for You:

At Tuatahi, we’re not only leaders in technology - we’re dedicated to looking after our people. Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing and help you thrive, both at work and at home:

• Medical and Life Insurance: Comprehensive cover to protect your health and security.
• Utilities Rebate: Support with essential home costs like power and fibre.
• Refer-a-Friend Bonus: Bring great people into the team and get rewarded.
• Volunteer Day: One paid day each year to give back to your community.
• Extra Leave: Two days extra leave per year.
• Parental Leave Support: Salary top-ups and support to help you focus on family.

About Us:

As a leader in Aotearoa’s ultrafast broadband revolution, Tuatahi is powering the future of connectivity. Our 6,000 km fibre optic network is the backbone that links households and businesses to the internet, driving digital growth across regions like Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Hawke’s Bay, New Plymouth, and beyond.

We partner with retail service providers and mobile network operators, enabling them to offer a range of services to over 249,000 homes and businesses. As we expand, we’re seeking innovative minds to help us shape a digitally empowered tomorrow. Join us and be part of something truly transformative.

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