Senior Test Analyst
At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi look first.
This role is vital in helping us deliver high-quality products to customers of our classifieds business. With your rapid, focused and efficient testing, we'll be able to continue ensuring our customers are getting the best out of their Trade Me experience.
**Here is what you can expect from this role:**- Mentor and coach junior members of the team.
- Advocate automation across teams and disciplines.
- Find and address challenges with our processes and practices.
- Find opportunities to apply new, innovative technologies to solve our current business problems.
- Perform and document context-driven testing activities across all relevant platforms.
- Create and maintain suitable automated checks in accordance with the test strategy.
- Participate fully in agile delivery processes; leading the analysis, design and development.
- Manage the deployment of cases to production, and support resolution of incidents.
- Identify and resolve production bugs through the triage process.
- Contribute, through knowledge sharing, peer review and mentoring to the capability of the test guild.
- Advocate and facilitate increasing ownership of quality amongst the whole squad.
- Regularly communicate with the squad and wider stakeholders about the progress, risks and overall quality of the products.
- Help engineers with their test planning and execution.
- Monitor production environments and triage possible bugs or anomalies.
- Audit test automation suite coverage and state, and implement corrective actions upon drift.
- Test and audit applications' security and performance to make sure they are aligned with our standards
- 5+ years' experience in similar roles, ideally with a mixed background of exploratory and automation testing.
- Ability to automate processes using Bash, Python, or similar tools.
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies preferred, but not required.
- Experience working across different layers of the technology stack.
- Experience applying context-driven testing approaches would be ideal.
- Experience in API, UI/ mobile automation.
- Experience in using monitoring tools like Splunk and New Relic.
- Ability to wrangle data using SQL.
- A good team player and trusted advisor, able to provide support and advice to others with a positive attitude and a willingness to collaborate.
- Organised and comfortable with self-directed work; adaptable and can cope with change in a fast-moving environment.
- An eye for detail; willing to work through the little things to make our web experience faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain.
- Propensity for personal motivation, initiative, adaptability and the willingness to face challenges head-on.
**You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:**
**#Flexibility:** Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week.
**#Wellness:** Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.
**#Leave:** We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1.
**#Social:** Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.
**#Learning:** Whether it's on the job, formal training, mentoring or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1.
We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the "Why".
Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.