Junior Test Analyst

Te Tūranga - The Role

We're excited to offer an exceptional opportunity to join our Systems & Solutions Team as a Junior Test Engineer specializing in Automation. You will play a key role in technical testing, helping ensure high-quality Tait solutions for our Critical Communications customers.

In this position, you'll be hands-on, contributing towards enhancing automation coverage of testing and deployment solution architectures, that encompass hardware devices, microservices, and communication networks.

Reporting to the Systems & Solutions Service Lead, you'll have a central role in:

• Applying critical thinking, systems thinking & coding skills to scale quality through automation.

• Streamlining deployment of test systems and cloud-based environments.

• Collaborating with Partnering Engineers to seamlessly integrate partner solutions with Tait systems.

The duties of the role will include:

• Developing hands on understanding of real time critical communications tech stack

• Conducting requirements analysis and modelling

• Designing Automated test frameworks and tooling, to deliver quality at scale

• Investigating and evaluating design and test processes, tools, equipment, and third-party components

• Supporting the team by assisting other Test Engineers, fostering skill development, and contributing to the team's overall proficiency

• Documenting, reviewing, and maintaining Tait's Verification and Validation Standards

Please click here to view the position description.

Ō pūkenga - About You

To be successful in this role, you will have a Tertiary qualification in a relevant field (Computer Science/Electronics or equivalent). We're open to candidates with either 1-2 years of relevant Automation Engineering experience or recent graduates who can demonstrate strong internship, research, or project experience in automation, microservices-based applications, and/or embedded software products.

As well as:

• Proven competency in an OOP Language (Python preferred)

• Proven experience in implementing processes, creating tooling to compress time to market & delivering Quality @ Scale.

• Proven experience in implementation test automation frameworks, ideally involving Microservices & Embedded systems

• Preferred experience with CI/CD ecosystems (e.g., GitLab, GitLab CI/CD) and infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Powershell, Bash) to automate the deployment and management of cloud-based applications and services on Linux and AWS/Azure platforms.

• It is preferred, you have experience in administration and deployment of Linux based systems & Linux solution architectures.

Ngā painga - What’s in it for you?

We are an employer that is committed to making a difference for families and communities and supporting people to build rewarding careers. We achieve this through employing people who connect with our Values (Commitment to listen. Courage to Act and Integrity to Deliver) that underpin our way of working together. We are committed to investing in our people, developing both individuals and teams to support a high-performance culture.

• We prioritize your wellbeing through health insurance, annual flu vaccinations and extra sick leave in your first year.

• We provide a comfortable work environment through modern office facilities with free onsite parking, gym, and café.

• We recognize your commitment through long service benefits.

• We balance work with fun through our active social club!