Test Engineer

Are you an experienced manual Test Engineer with strong hands-on manual testing experience?

We’re looking for a Test Engineer to join a Christchurch-based technology team on a 6-month contract. You’ll work within a collaborative Agile environment, helping deliver reliable, customer-focused software through practical, thorough testing.

This role will suit someone who is detail-oriented, curious and confident working across functional, regression, exploratory and end-to-end testing.

What you’ll be doing:

Working as part of an Agile delivery team, you’ll be involved throughout the testing lifecycle and will:

• Perform functional, regression, exploratory and end-to-end testing.
• Create, execute and maintain test cases and test scenarios.
• Test web applications and investigate issues using browser Developer Tools.
• Perform API testing using Postman or similar tools.
• Identify, reproduce, document and track defects through to resolution.
• Clearly communicate testing progress, results, blockers and risks.
• Support testing across software releases.
• Work closely with developers, testers, designers and product stakeholders.
• Identify risks, edge cases and potential quality issues.

What we’re looking for:

You’ll bring practical software testing or quality assurance experience and a strong understanding of testing fundamentals.

You’ll ideally have:

• Strong hands-on manual testing experience.
• Experience testing web applications.
• Experience creating and maintaining test cases and test scenarios.
• Experience documenting and tracking defects using JIRA or a similar tool.
• Experience using browser Developer Tools to investigate issues.
• API testing experience using Postman or similar.
• Experience working within a Scrum, Kanban or similar Agile environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A practical, curious and detail-oriented approach.
• A collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively within an established team.

Highly desirable:

• Exposure to UI or API test automation, particularly Playwright or Postman.
• Experience with Git and GitHub.
• Database querying and validation using SQL Server, Postgres or similar.
• Python, TypeScript or another language used for test automation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD environments such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Mobile application testing across iOS or Android.
• ISTQB, QAI, CSTE, CSQA or CAST certification.

Why you'll want this:

You’ll be joining a supportive team where quality is taken seriously and testing is an important part of delivering good software.

For someone with solid manual testing foundations who wants to continue developing their technical testing capability, there’s plenty here to learn and get involved in.

This is a 6-month contract based in Christchurch, and applicants must be New Zealand residents with the right to work in New Zealand.

Please apply via the link with your updated CV, or reach out to Amelie Elischer for a confidential chat.