About the role

About the client:
An Auckland-based product organisation on the North Shore, investing in its platform and partner ecosystem. With a strong focus on leveraging modern technologies and methodologies, they are at the forefront of industry advancements. You’ll join a supportive, outcome-focused team that values collaboration, clarity and steady delivery over hype.About the opportunity:
Quality is slowing down delivery. This role exists to turn that around. You’ll partner with a Delivery Lead to shift testing left, standardise practices and build a high-trust, data-led quality culture. You’ll lead end-to-end quality across multiple workstreams, embedding automated testing and observability within CI/CD so defects surface early and teams move faster with confidence. Success looks like fewer late surprises, higher engineering throughput and engineers who own quality daily. You’ll coach, enable and remove blockers, driving consistency while respecting team contexts.

About the role:
You’ll own the end-to-end quality strategy and execution across GX teams, embedding a quality-by-default mindset and shift-left practices within engineering. You’ll standardise testing through CI/CD, automation and observability, ensuring tooling, reporting and quality gates are fit for purpose. You’ll coordinate upskilling across the team, lifting test capability and consistency, while implementing quality and security controls throughout the lifecycle. Day-to-day, you’ll manage cross-team dependencies, proactively remove blockers and provide clear, data-led visibility of progress, risks and outcomes.

What you will bring:

• Proven leadership of software testing and quality for complex products
• A track record of shifting quality left within product engineering teams
• Proven hands-on experience with CI/CD and building/maintaining automation frameworks
• Comfort working across hybrid, on-prem and cloud deployment models
• Experience leading distributed teams across time zones and cultures
• Data-driven communication, strong facilitation and coaching skills
• Ability to translate between technical and business contexts
• Nice to have: exposure to IoT, security, or access control systems

Don’t miss this opportunity – APPLY NOW! Your interest will be treated in the strictest of confidence.

Ideally, your background is not enterprise or consultancy focused and not limited to pure SaaS.

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