Test Lead – eCom Brands and Mobile
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About Foodies
You know New World, PAK’nSAVE, Gilmours, and Four Square right? That’s us! With a team of 25,000, we are one of NZ’s biggest companies, you just don’t know it, because in true Kiwi style – we are humble about it (apart from right now maybe)! Our Support Centre is 1,000 people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in supporting our network of 330+ stores across the North Island.
About the role
As a Test Lead you will be part of a high performing IT Testing practice, working in an open and encouraging culture. You will empower and build testing capability within Foodstuffs North Island (Foodies).
In this role you will research, assess and learn new technologies, methodologies and frameworks and help implement them in practice. You will assist in strategic direction regarding QA practice implementation and development, working along highly supportive IT leadership team & the Test Practice Manager.
Successful applicant for this role will:
- Motivate and inspire the digital test team to deliver high quality products and test cycles.
- Implement processes which will ensure that Foodies QA Policy, standards & best practices are followed through the Customer Products department.
- Assist in ensuring that the latest tools and technologies for manual and automated testing, processes and development are used, to speed up repetitive testing and bring greater confidence in software releases.
- People leadership including performance management, coaching, development plans, driving team engagement and assisting in recruiting for the team when required.
About you
You’ll be enthusiastic and passionate about testing and leadership, having Test Leadership experience and coordination in complex environments and projects. Experience required for each role includes:
- You will need to be an experienced QA lead/manager
- Experience with digital (online e-commerce) software and associated tool sets
- You’ll possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to multitask and work through issues in a fast paced, complex, operational environment.
- Proven experience and coordination on complex projects and environments.
- A passion for software testing and able to keep up with the latest technology in order to contribute towards testing process improvements.
- People leadership, mentoring and line management experience
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We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome applications from you all regardless of who you are or what you do. We welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau, but most importantly we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.