Test Lead | Kaiarataki Whakamātau (7-Month Fixed-Term)

• Bring your formal Testing experience and passion for mentoring and upskilling to contribute to Enterprise-wide testing strategies
• Fixed-term role until August 2025

About Us | Ko mātou

Stats NZ | Tatauranga Aotearoa is a Central Government employer of 1200+ people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.

What's in it for you? | Ngā hua ka riro ki a koe

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about the Way We Work at Stats NZ and also check out our benefits. We want working for us… to work for you!!

Salary range: $95,972 - $128,391 + superannuation

Other benefits of joining Stats NZ include:

• Balance life and work commitments
• Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
• Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
• City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs

The role | Te tūnga

Our Data Operations and Infrastructure branch has a fantastic opportunity as we seek to appoint a fixed term Test Lead till August 29, 2025. The preferred location for this role is Christchurch, though other locations will be considered.

A crucial part of the role will be the development and implementation of Stats NZ's Enterprise testing functionality. You will work with the Statistical Infrastructure team to deliver end to end automated testing for our social survey platform, which can in turn be reused for other survey areas. You will use your knowledge of testing solutions, and passion for testing to lead and our initiative to deliver functionality to the organisation.

As a test lead working in our team, you'll contribute to:

• Creation of end-to-end automation tests.
• Writing and implementing test plans and cases to validate code.
• Leading implementation of the Enterprise Automated Test Framework.
• Championing best practice and use of enterprise testing tools and systems across Stats NZ's statistical landscape e.g. Azure DevOps, BDD, Python, GitLab.
• Developing, implementing and supporting continuous improvement of business process models, documentation, testing, deployment and Statistical Software Development Life Cycle procedures.

This role would suit someone who can bring:

• Relevant and recent technical testing experience.
• a passion for coaching, training and mentoring.
• an ability to quickly learn and understand our corporate statistical processing platforms and infrastructure.
• an ability to quickly learn about Stats NZ and relevant business processes, surveys and data.
• a proven ability at building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships with customers.
• an ability to resolve conceptually and technically challenging problems.
• Have familiarity with, or a commitment to learn and understand, Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Ao and Te Reo Māori.
• Demonstrated or encouraged diversity and inclusion in and/or outside of work.

What you bring | Nōu te rourou

We understand transferable skills can come from experience gained from outside of work. We encourage you to be you in your application.

We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don't need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us.

Tell us about yourself in your cover letter, what attracted you to this role, and what you would bring to Stats NZ.

How to apply | Me pēhea te tuku tono

If this sounds like you, click on the Apply now button to be redirected to the application page on our careers site. The position description is located on the right-hand side of the page.

We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interview. You may be asked to complete a pre-interview screen via phone or video. Please let us know in your application if we need to make any specific accommodations during our process.

Please reach out to recruitment@stats.govt.nz if you have any questions.

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: unsolicited CVs will not be accepted.