Job Description

Kia ora!

Air New Zealand is on an accelerated journey to become the world’s leading digital airline. As a QA Engineer, you’ll join a high-performing product team at the centre of this transformation, helping deliver reliable software and shape digital experiences across the business. This 9-month fixed-term opportunity is a chance to bring your QA expertise to an iconic New Zealand brand and make a meaningful impact.

You’ll work across the software development lifecycle with engineers, architects, business analysts and other QA professionals. You’ll contribute to test automation, investigate defects and help teams build quality into the way they design and deliver software.

Key responsibilities

• Take part in the development process from inception through to release, using Agile and Lean ways of working such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Design, develop and run automated test scenarios based on functional and technical requirements.
• Maintain and monitor automation and regression test suites, refactoring them to keep them reliable and useful.
• Apply software engineering principles to test automation, with a focus on maintainability and reuse.
• Investigate defects and work with the team to resolve issues and prevent them recurring.
• Collaborate with architects, software engineers, QA professionals and business analysts to diagnose issues and shape software that supports effective testing.
• Follow agreed processes, standards and guidelines for manual and automated testing.

What you’ll bring

• Two to five years’ experience as a QA Engineer in a technology environment, or practical experience in a related technical discipline.
• Experience with software testing, test automation and quality assurance tools and practices.
• A good understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience working in an Agile or DevOps team.
• The ability to design test approaches, investigate issues and solve problems in existing applications.
• Experience working collaboratively in software product teams and managing dependencies across teams.
• Clear communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work effectively with engineers, support analysts and other team members.
• Experience with mainframe, middleware, midrange, desktop, native mobile, database or distributed system architectures would be an advantage.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

If you’re interested in helping us deliver quality software, apply now with your most recent CV.

Applications close at 11:59 pm on Sunday 29 November 2026.

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."