Tait Communications

Senior Test Analyst - 12 Month Fixed Term

Tait Communications  •  Christchurch, NZ (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

We Go Beyond for A Safer World

Te Tūranga - The Role

We're excited to welcome a Senior Test Engineer to our team on a 12-month fixed term basis, who will play a vital role in elevating the quality of our systems-including cloud services, on-premises deployments, mobile applications, and embedded devices. We need someone comfortable with jumping in and being hands on but also someone who enjoys sharing knowledge, mentoring others, and leaving things better than they found them. This is a collaborative position where you'll be close to the code, the systems and the people building them.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Building and maintaining automated tests across cloud, mobile, and embedded platforms
  • Working closely with developers and product teams to catch issues early and continuously improve improve quality.
  • Improving our CI/CD pipelines and test infrastructure
  • Helping shape how we approach test automation and quality engineering as a team, including sharing experience through code reviews, pairing, mentoring, and technical discussions as well as evolving existing test frameworks.
  • Automated Test framework design & implementation, as well as investigation and evaluation of design and test processes, test tools, - equipment and third-party components. As well as test planning and coordination

Ō pūkenga - About You

To be successful in this role, you'll bring:

  • At least 5 years' experience in test automation for complex systems as well as good foundational understanding of manual testing.
  • Strong Python skills
  • Hands-on experience with GitLab pipelines and runners
  • Practical experience with:
    • Test automation for embedded Linux systems
    • Test automation for AOSP
    • Linux-based environments
    • The Behave testing framework (BDD)
  • Experience working with Docker
  • A mindset focused on learning, teaching, and continuous improvement clear communication skills and a collaborative approach to work

Ngā painga - What's in it for you?

We are committed to supporting people to build rewarding careers. By joining Tait, you'll be part of a team that connects with our values: Commitment to Listen, Courage to Act, and Integrity to Deliver. We invest in our people, fostering both individual and team growth within a high-performance culture.

  • We prioritize your wellbeing through health insurance, annual flu vaccinations, and extra sick leave in your first year.
  • We provide a comfortable work environment with modern office facilities, free onsite parking, a gym, and a café.
  • We recognize your commitment through long service benefits.
  • We balance work with fun through our active social club.

Ko wai mātou - About Us

For over 50 years, Tait Communications has been designing, delivering, and supporting critical communications networks for public safety, transportation, and utility customers worldwide. Founded in Christchurch by Sir Angus Tait, we now have a network of customers and offices spanning the globe.

Our employees value being part of a creative team committed to providing technological solutions that make a real difference to the communities we support. By joining Tait, you'll become part of a team with deep expertise, genuine care for their work, and a commitment to helping each other grow.

Ko koe pea tēnei? - Sound like your kind of role?

If you like working across different technologies, enjoy improving how teams test and ship software, and want your experience to have a visible impact, we'd like to hear from you. Submit your application with a CV and cover letter.

Applications will be assessed as they are received, and your CV will be held unless you request its removal.

Applications will close in 2 weeks' time.

For more information about Tait Communications, our products, and solutions, visit our website: www.taitcommunications.com

Tait Communications

About Tait Communications

Our clients protect communities, power cities, move citizens, harness resources and save lives all over the world. We work with them to create, support and unify the critical communication solutions they depend on to do their jobs.

Digital wireless communication forms the central nervous system of everything we do. Around this resilient, robust core we design, develop, manufacture, test, deploy, support and manage innovative communication environments for organizations that have to put their total trust in the systems and people they work with.

We’ve worked hard to develop genuine insight into our clients’ worlds, and have pursued engineering, operational and services excellence for more than 40 years. This understanding, and our belief in championing open-standards technology, means we can give our clients the best possible choice and value to achieve the human outcomes they’re driven by.

We’re not simply aligned with our clients; we’re devoted to their cause.

Tait Communications’ sole dividend receiving shareholder is a charitable trust which shares the company’s operating profits across several donation and investment streams responsible for research and development, regional reinvestment and education. This rare model means clients can rely on Tait Communications to be an independent long-term player in the critical communications industry and to continue to play its role of ‘open-standards champion’.

Industry
Telecommunications
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Christchurch, NZ
Year Founded
1969
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