53406 Software Test Engineer - Plant & Food Research

Software Test Engineer
Science & Business Solutions
Finance, Information and Infrastructure
Te Puke or Kerikeri for the first year, flexible thereafter
Vacancy number: 53406
Permanent fulltime (38 hours per week)
Salary range:  $80,000 to $110,000

Are you an accomplished software test engineer with demonstrated experience working with  complex systems?

How passionate are you about working in a solution driven, supportive environment, where you can maximise your potential and develop an incredible career working in a company where you and your team genuinely love what you do?

What you will be doing | Ngā whāinga matua

You will utilise your excellent communication skills to successfully work with various teams and experts to maintain and improve the quality of software that is developed within our organisation, You must have a curious mind and have the proven ability to get results.

You will promote a culture of test driven development across our institute with a core focus on testing, developing systems and scripts for a particular important project.  You will assist our Technical Services team with testing system changes, updates/patching and software packages and changes.  You will be testing in both Agile and conventional/SDLC software development and working in a DevOps approach for deployment to improve the quality of our developed systems.

What you will bring | Ngā tino pūkenga me ngā wheako

• Some certification or qualification in software testing is important, e.g. International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB)
• Experience with developing automated software functional tests in one or more tools or frameworks (such as Selenium or Katalon) is important
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, or GitHub Actions would be desirable
• Experience with software for managing the overall testing process such as Katalon would be desirable
• Understanding of horticultural industry would be desirable
• A science background would be desirable

What you will get | Ngā hua o tēnei tūranga

We offer excellent employee benefits including generous leave provisions, and the opportunity to work within a friendly, team-based environment.  You will lead and contribute to exciting projects with an organisation that has an excellent reputation for its science and impact! 

• Additional 6 days leave and generous paid parental leave
• Ongoing career development opportunities
• Flexible work - work from home and flexible hours
• The option of subsidised health insurance and additional employer superannuation contribution
• Focus on health and wellbeing with enhanced sick leave

About us | Ko wai mātou

At Plant & Food Research, we believe science can create a better future. By finding smarter, greener options today, we're helping secure the world we want to live in tomorrow. With our partners, we use world-leading science to improve the way they grow, fish, harvest, create, prepare and share food. Every day, we have 1000 people working across Aotearoa New Zealand and the world to help deliver healthy foods from the world's most sustainable systems.