Quality Engineering Practice Manager

Te Ratonga Tautoko Hangarau | Digital Services

Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

• Full-time at 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)

Āu Mahi | What You Will Do

You lead a practice of test analysts and test automation specialists and take them on a journey towards Quality Engineering. You will work with product/project managers and Digital Services leadership to be the voice of quality within Digital Services, supporting teams with QA and QE resourcing with internal and contract staff. You will lead the team to develop and improve Quality Engineering processes and practices, and uplift automation capability. You will engage with external suppliers and partners to further team capabilities as well as provide resourcing, and support partners to engage with UC's quality practices.

Your experience in supporting projects to deliver quality outcomes will support and develop staff to grow their skills, and where required you will be able to step into "delivery mode" to assist projects directly, and act as an escalation and final quality gate when required. You will be involved in resourcing discussions with UC's high-profile projects to help determine project and business case requirements, budgets and timelines.

You will support Digital Services by bringing another facet to our project risk management and support our endeavours for release and environment management, and a "shift-left" in quality.

Mōu | Who You Are
You have extensive experience operating as a digital quality practice manager, managing quality analysts and engineers, and providing mentoring, guidance and career development, including a transition from manual to automated testing. You will be experienced engaging with internal stakeholders and external suppliers at a strategic as well as resourcing level. In addition, you will have experience as a test lead across very large digital projects.

As our team works in an agile manner, it's important that you are approachable, adaptable and enjoying working in a collaborative environment, with an eye for detail, and can communicate effectively.

Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With

Building world-class digital capability is crucial to the University of Canterbury's ongoing success. Digital Services is a large team, striving to provide a modern dynamic foundation from which the University (UC) can explore new business models and ways of working. Digital will transform how we work, behave, and the expectations of the communities we service.  For more information about our team, please visit us @ Digital Services.

Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC
Tangata Tū, Tangata Ora - Engaged, Empowered, Making a Difference.

Our values are manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tiakitanga at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and these uara (values) guide our decisions and behaviour. Our values provide a roadmap for how we do things, affirming our commitment to the oranga (health, safety and wellbeing) of our students through mana-enhancing pastoral care and support. Ngā Uara (our values) challenge and inspire us to be the best we can be. They make UC a great place to work and study. For more on our Ngā Uara | Our Values visit https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about/values/

We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender or ethnicity. The University explicitly aims to produce graduates and support staff who are engaged with their communities, empowered to act for good and determined to make a difference in the world.

We offer a range of fantastic benefits including flexible work practices, study opportunities and generous superannuation and leave provisions. For more information, please visit us: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/joinus/benefits/

For more information about Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, please visit www.canterbury.ac.nz

The closing date for this position is: 24th March 2024 (midnight, NZ time)
Please note, applications may be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the close date.

Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply
Applications for this position must be submitted on our careers website and should include a cover letter and resume.

Please note, we do not accept applications by email, however we are happy to answer your queries in relation to the application process, please forward these to [email protected]

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency to be considered for this role. If you hold a valid work visa and are physically present in New Zealand then you may also be considered.

Job Details

Reference #	19502
Posted on	15 Mar 2024
Closes on	24 Mar 2024 23:55
Location(s)	Christchurch
Expertise	Information Technology
Job level(s)	Experienced, Management
Work type(s)	Continuing (Permanent) full-time
More details (document)	Quality Engineering Practice Manager PD 2024.pdf
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