Quality Engineer Senior

About the role:

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll take ownership of functional testing across a range of initiatives, working closely with business and technology teams to ensure solutions are delivered to a high standard.

You’ll be involved early in the delivery lifecycle, guiding test readiness, coordinating activities across projects, and providing clear visibility of testing progress.

This role also plays a key part in driving continuous improvement, mentoring other Quality Engineers, refining testing practices, and supporting a strong quality culture across the organisation.

This role is based at our Support Office in Papanui, Christchurch and is worked 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with hours worked between 7:00am and 6:00pm. The base salary range for this position is $90,000 – $106,000, dependent on skills and experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate Quality Engineering activities across multiple projects, from design through to development and release.
• Analyse business and technical documentation to define testing scope, readiness, and requirements.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and supporting documentation, including coordinating and executing functional and regression testing across releases.
• Execute and support automated test activities where applicable, documenting outcomes through defect reports and test artefacts.
• Manage test environment readiness, test entry and exit reporting, and provide regular progress updates to ensure delivery milestones are met.
• Collaborate with business users, analysts, developers, and project managers to ensure testing aligns with business needs.
• Raise, track, and escalate defects in line with agreed processes.

About you:

You’re an experienced tester who is comfortable working across multiple projects and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders. You bring a strong attention to detail and a structured approach to testing and a proactive mindset. Ideally you will also have:

• Strong technical documentation review and interpretation skills
• Solid understanding of business processes and the systems that support them
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across business and technical teams
• Experience with regression testing and exposure to automated testing tools or frameworks is desirable.
• Strong problem analysis and troubleshooting skills
• ISTQB Foundation level certified
• ISTQB Agile tester certification and Professional Scrum Master certification would be an advantage
• Exposure to performance testing practices would be an advantage
• Prior experience working within the food retail industry would be an advantage.

In addition, you will bring in-depth experience testing complex enterprise platforms, including:

• SAP ERP systems, with hands‑on testing experience across:
• SAP CAR – promotions creation and management (banner/store side)
• SAP BTP – promotions creation and management (supplier side)
• SAP S/4HANA – condition and SGTT contract creation and management
• SAP Hybris – Product Information Management (PIM)
• SAP Transport Management (TM) and Enterprise Warehouse Management (EWM) systems, including end‑to‑end and integration testing across supply chain workflows.
• Automation testing experience in ERP systems

How to apply:

Applications will close 8 May 2026 and will only be accepted via our careers site.  

If you have any questions about the role, or experience any issues submitting your application, please email careers@foodstuffs-si.co.nz.   

Join us in feeding the South Island.

Why join us?

• Our approach to flexible working is based on trusting and empowering our people to manage their time and deliver results while balancing the needs of their personal lives.
• We’re committed to equitable outcomes, and we offer additional paid parental leave, free period products and financial health checks to name a few.
• We support your wellbeing with Southern Cross health insurance for you and your family after a qualifying period, discounts at local gyms, access to online wellbeing tools, and a prayer and privacy room onsite.
• We offer continuous learning and professional growth, as well as access to our extensive online training library and endless opportunities.
• We’re proud of our supportive team environment, and our positive and friendly culture that’s made fun by Furry Friend Fridays and monthly social events!
• Our Papanui based office has free carparking, an in-house café.

Our values:

At Foodstuffs South Island, together we drive success to be our best and care for our whānau. We recognise that it takes a collective effort to achieve success, and we thrive on fostering a culture of collaboration to drive innovation and embracing challenges as a united team. We are committed to supporting our people, and to positively impact the lives of South Islanders every day.

About us:

We’re a team of 14,000 who make sure all South Islanders have access to the groceries and essentials they need. Proudly 100% Kiwi-owned and operated, our co-operative has more than 200 PAK’nSAVE, New World and On the Spot stores feeding the South Island. 

We value being at the heart of our communities, like we’ve always been, to make the South Island a better place – for today and for many generations to come. From sunny Golden Bay all the way to Stewart Island, there’s a Foodstuffs store serving you and your whānau. 

Our success is down to our people who bring their skills, experience, passion, and expertise to make Foodies an amazing and rewarding place to work. Given the breadth of our cooperative, the opportunities for development are endless.