Senior Test Engineer/ Test Lead opportunities

**Tō kamupene hou | Your new company** They are a leading financial services organisation. **Tō tūranga hou | Your new role** They are seeking a Senior Test Engineer and a Test Lead to work across a complex technology environment while helping drive the adoption of modern automation and AI-enabled testing practices. **Senior Test Engineer** They're looking for a hands-on Senior Test Engineer with strong automation experience, particularly Playwright and TypeScript. You'll design and enhance automation frameworks, deliver testing across web, API and integration environments, and help explore how AI and internally developed agents can be incorporated into the Playwright framework to improve testing efficiency and automation. **Test Lead / Test Manager** They're also looking for an experienced Test Lead / Test Manager to lead testing strategy and delivery across a complex technology environment. A key focus will be developing effective approaches for testing and verifying contracts, documents and associated business processes, alongside supporting modern automation and AI-enabled testing practices. **Ngā uara me ngā pūkenga e angitu ai koe | What you'll need to succeed** **Senior Test Engineer:** **Key skills:** * Strong Playwright & TypeScript automation experience * Automation framework design/development * API, integration and end-to-end testing * CI/CD and modern quality engineering practices * Exposure to AI-enabled testing, AI agents or intelligent automation would be highly desirable * Experience with Java/Selenium, Salesforce or financial services environments would be beneficial **Test Lead: Key skills:** * Strong Test Lead/Test Manager experience * Test strategy, planning and end-to-end delivery * Experience testing and validating documents, contracts and complex business rules/processes * Strong understanding of automation and modern quality engineering * Leadership, risk/defect management and senior stakeholder engagement * Exposure to AI-enabled testing, intelligent automation or agent-based approaches would be highly desirable * Financial services/insurance experience would be advantageous **Duration - 6 month contract (with potential extension)** **Location - Auckland based** **\*\*\*Applicants must hold a valid New Zealand work visa\*\*\*** **Me aha koe ināianei | What you need to do now** If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to anuvarsha.arulbabu@hays.net.nz.