• Enterprise test lead in new Lending Origination Platform project in ASB.
• Lead and get hands-on with interesting and complex pieces of work on an enterprise scale.
• Flexible work options, career development opportunities and banking benefits!

At ASB, we're all about doing what we can to help our customers get "One Step Ahead" by giving them the tools they need to manage their lives and plans for their families and future. Our products don't just serve ads or stream movies - they underpin our economy and touch people's lives.

If you've always wanted to apply your skills to a large-scale Kiwi success story, then today is your lucky day - as we are on the lookout for an Enterprise Test Lead to join us in the Lending Origination Platform project in the Customer Intelligence platform!

About the role:

The Customer Intelligence platform work across ASB Bank to drive automation for a variety of initiatives through specialist software like Pega. The platform is a mix of collaborative experts who simply love enabling automation, making life easy for ASBers and our Customers.



As an Enterprise Test lead, you will apply your experience in banking domain, and test management experience to help lead the squads in building, supporting, and maintaining our applications and contribute to the overall testing processes within the project.



You'll be part of a program/ project on the forefront of working to deliver and support a secure, functional and performance ecosystem to our customers. In our diverse and accepting environment, our people grow their agile mind-set, learn, evolve and utilise their skills, while being empowered to make decisions. You'll have the opportunity to lead and get hands-on with some interesting and complex pieces of work that integrate on an enterprise scale.



We advocate agile, fully cross functional squads which will take you through all facets of engineering in any given day. We are looking for a mix of Lending Origination Platform project experience, test management and technical testing skills to support the following activities:

• Reviewing requirements and specifications.
• Creating agile testing strategies and plans.
• Fostering proactive and continuous improvements within the testers' community.
• Working with key stakeholders for testing end to end, UAT, post-production testing and obtain sign-off.
• Manage test design, planning and execution.
• Building and supporting test automation.
• Building and supporting performance testing.
• Verifying and validating functionality being developed.
• Analysing and reporting test results.
• Ensuring we are meeting our internal control requirements

About you:



We are looking for an individual that will lead the testing within a large programme of work. Someone who not only understands good QA practice that includes engineered test automation & performance testing, but also someone who can provide non-line management leadership to squads. A person who can own and report the overall test status and provide QA guidance to the wider cross border domain squads, leaders, and stakeholders.

Our technical solutions, drive continuous change for the squads and customers to ensure we are delivering best possible outcomes. You will work collaboratively with our squads and stakeholders to be the voice of test engineering and deliver better & safer customer experiences.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Extensive enterprise test management experience and proven testing leadership with large or complex projects/ programs.
• Proven knowledge across functional testing, system testing, integration testing, API testing, end to end testing, user acceptance testing, automation testing and performance testing.
• Manage and coordinate project/ program level end to end testing activities with multiple squads.
• Working with key stakeholders (internal/external) for testing end to end, user acceptance testing and obtain sign- off.
• Create and maintain project level test strategies/ test plans that includes approach for technical testing (test automation & non-functional testing) components.
• Capture, track and escalate status, risks, and issues to management.
• Experience on test estimating, negotiating and prioritizing of work.
• Provide test sign off against test coverage, execution, defects, and risks.
• Develop strong positive stakeholder relationships over a continuous release stream.
• Develop sustainable and agile test processes that incorporate test automation.
• Manage complex integrated test environments and test data.
• Mentoring/ guiding on standards and best practices.
• In-depth technical capabilities to grow .Net / RestSharp / Selenium/ BDD test automation.
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Has foster proactive and continuous improvements to a testing community.
• 5+ years of experience of test management in Banking or similar industry.

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Experience in Lending Origination platform and/or
• Test managed Lending Origination Platform projects
• Certified in ISTQB Fundamentals / Advanced Test Manager level.

Working at ASB:

ASB's sense of who we are and what we stand for is grounded in our values. They guide our business in our day-to-day interactions with our team, customers and community. They are what makes ASB - ASB.

Along with our interactions, values guide our actions and conduct, making ASB a safe and inclusive environment for both our people and our customers. They show that we care, are passionate and courageous and that we act with integrity. Most importantly they unite us - because they are ASB.

We offer a flexible and supportive work environment and offer an open and inclusive culture; a place where we welcome and value your individuality, ideas and goals.

If we've nailed our pitch and this role sounds like it might be the one for you then please click "apply"... we'd love to hear from you!