Our Wellington based Banking client seeks Senior Testers with extensive experience in API testing.

There are multiple openings primarily based in Wellington, though our client is open to considering Auckland-based candidates who meet all the criteria, particularly those with experience in banking or financial services.

This team is focused on Lending, working with internal teams onshore and partners offshore.

Responsibilities include:
•Take a leadership approach in thinking critically and laterally about test design, mitigating project risks through an appropriate test approach, and exploring the application to expose vulnerabilities beyond the business requirements. 
•Work with developers to create appropriate automated checks using existing tools 
•Work with your Agile team to develop a common understanding of the business requirements, and understanding underlying business intent, business procedures and systems. 
•Reproduces customer defect and debugs to identify root causes  
•Participate in agile ceremonies including stand up, retrospective, planning and demonstration. Undertaking non-testing related activities to assist the team to deliver on its commitments. 

Essential:
•Extensive knowledge of API Testing 
•Extensive experience creating and maintaining automation frameworks using Java, Spring, JUnit, Rest-Assured
•Building API Mocks and deploying them to use for Automation and Manual testing
•White-box testing (code level), debugging
•Building Postman collections (Java Script) to use in manual and exploratory API testing 
•Technical requirement analysis and documentation
•Strong understanding of Swagger and Open API Specifications
•Building SQL scripts to query SQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle Databases 
•Linux Command line scripting
•Analysing Logs and application monitoring (Splunk, Dynatrace)
•Good knowledge of CI practices, source code/version control and deployment tools (Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, AKS)
•Innovative and out of the box thinking to overcome testing challenges 

These are contract roles - You must be in NZ with a valid work or residency visa to be considered.

Kia ora, Comspek and our clients fully support and encourage diverse hiring and inclusive recruitment processes. Don’t meet every single requirement of this job description? That’s ok - You do not need to tick every box or have expertise in the full JD. Comspek is dedicated to building diverse, inclusive and authentic workplaces based on different clients’ needs. So, if you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.