Job Title: Senior Tester (Automation & Manual)

Location: Auckland CBD
Duration: 6 months minimum
Start Date: ASAP
Work Style: Hybrid (3 days on-site, remainder flexible)

Overview:
We are seeking a skilled Senior Tester to join our clients team focused on driving transformational digital projects in Auckland CBD. In this role, you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality solutions across diverse platforms through both manual and automated testing. If you excel in a collaborative environment and have a passion for quality assurance, this is a significant opportunity to contribute to impactful projects.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Contributing to various digital initiatives, including client portals, workflow enhancements, and CRM implementations.
• Performing extensive manual and automated testing with an emphasis on integration and end-to-end functionality.
• Conducting testing on APIs, message queues, data transformations, and file integrations.
• Supporting regression testing and managing automation suites within CI/CD pipelines.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Proven expertise in API and integration testing within Spring Boot, Mule, or Java environments.
• Proficiency in manual and automated testing using JUnit and Cucumber/BDD frameworks.
• Experience with REST API testing tools, particularly Postman.
• Solid understanding of test automation practices in CI/CD pipelines and regression suite management.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Familiarity with MuleSoft, Data Management Solutions (DMS), or SaaS platforms.
• Experience within the finance or insurance sectors is a plus.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies is advantageous.

If you are a proactive tester with a blend of manual and automation skills who is eager to work on digital transformation projects, we encourage you to apply! Please note we can only consider candidates in New Zealand with relevant work rights who are available within 2 weeks.

Mō mātou| About us

The New Zealand Defence Force spends every hour of every day, 365 days a year contributing to the defence, security and well-being of Aotearoa.

The role of the Internal Audit | Arotake ā-roto team is to provide independent, meaningful, and insightful assurance services to the organisation. As a partner across the organisation the Internal Audit team adds real value, going beyond compliance to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and work proactively to help manage risk.

In the Audit Intelligence team, your data analysis work will touch on many aspects of what the NZDF is about – from camps and bases, overseas posts and governance systems, through to finance, travel and HR systems.

Mō te tūnga | About the role

Reporting to the Manager Audit Intelligence, you will work collaboratively to provide data-led audits and analytics. You will contribute to the delivery of high-quality insights that are highly valued by senior stakeholders.

In this role you will get to:

• leverage data to solve interesting and unique problems that lead to tangible improvements
• access and use large datasets to create high-quality data analysis that supports the delivery of audits that are entirely data driven
• provide data analysis expertise and support to fraud investigations when required
• use your love of data and inquisitive mind to generate insights that help the organisation to better understand its data, augment decision making, and drive new initiatives
• contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of data analysis tools and techniques for the team
• work with the military and civilian personnel and teams that make up the NZDF.

Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and Experience

The right person for this role will offer:

• At least 2 years’ experience in a data analytics, modelling or data intelligence role
• Exceptional technical capability paired with an inquiring, analytical mind
• Attention to detail so sharp it could cut through a corrupted CSV
• A habit of validating data so thoroughly errors don’t survive the process
• Ability to turn technical information and complex data into clear, insightful reports and visualisations
• Practical experience with data tools such as SQL, Access, Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot and VBA
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence and willingness to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders

Experience within an audit environment, or an understanding of audit is preferred, but not essential.

We are undertaking a transformation to modernise our analytical environment. Therefore, experience with data interrogation and visualisation tools such as Power BI, R, Python, and ACL/Arbutus is desirable.

With the opportunity to work with a highly experienced, passionate manager and wider team of experts, an appetite for learning and continuous improvement is a must.

Nōu te rourou | What’s in it for you

Your skills and dedication deserve recognition, and NZDF delivers with competitive pay matched to your experience. But that’s just the beginning – safeguard your loved ones with a fully funded life cover of up to $300,000 and critical illness protection. Other benefits include 5 weeks annual leave per year, discounted additional insurances, free will services and savings schemes for the Defence community. Get expert financial guidance and mortgage broker services. Find all our benefits and more on the Force 4 Families website.

NZDF champions diversity and inclusivity, valuing every member and fuelling their success. We embrace uniqueness, understanding that diverse teams drive creativity, innovation, and excellence. With an open door to all – irrespective of gender, ethnicity, ability, age, or family dynamics – NZDF offers a flexible, empowering work environment. Join us in shaping a brighter future, where everyone thrives.

If you’re interested, we can’t wait to hear from you! For more information and a full position description, Vaishali Thapliyal at vaishali.thapliyal@talentinternational.com Katie Kemp on 021 928 232 to discuss this opportunity further, or click APPLY NOW and submit your CV and cover letter.

Applications for this role will close on Monday 30^th of March.

All applications will be acknowledged electronically.

Opportunity knocks…

We are recruiting a Senior Business Analyst to join a key initiative within a financial services environment. This role will support a Salesforce project.

This role requires someone who can operate at a senior level, acting as the bridge between business and technology teams, confidently navigating both technical and business conversations to ensure successful delivery.

Why you’re special…

• Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst within banking environments.
• Salesforce experience is essential, ideally within transformation or system migration initiatives.
• Ability to operate confidently between business and technology teams.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across multiple teams.
• Strong technical analysis capability as well as business documentation, including experience producing integration requirements documentation.

What’s in it for you…

• Play a key role in a Salesforce implementation.
• High stakeholder engagement across business and technology teams.
• Opportunity to contribute to a critical system migration initiative.

Please note we are only able to consider candidates in NZ with relevant working rights for this role.

Opportunity knocks…

Our client is recruiting a Lead Business Analyst to work as part of an enterprise wide platform implementation. This role not only involves overseeing a team of Business Analysts but also requires a hands on approach to business analysis. You will play a crucial role in influencing and managing stakeholders and ensuring the successful alignment of cross-functional teams in this critical project.

Why you’re special…

• Proven experience as a Lead Business Analyst, you are able to lead a team whilst remaining hands on.
• For this role you must have banking, and more specifically, lending experience.
• You have worked on large transformation projects.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across a variety of teams including vendors.
• Strong hands-on business analysis capabilities, including the ability to document comprehensive business requirements.

What’s in it for you…

• Play a key role in a major enterprise transformation programme.
• Lead and mentor a team, whilst shaping how analysis is delivered across the programme and ensuring continuous improvement.
• Strategic and hands-on role – with high stakeholder visibility.
• Long-term project with strong runway.

Please note we are only able to consider candidates in NZ with relevant working rights for this role.

Opportunity knocks…

Are you ready to make a significant impact in a market leading, technology driven organisation? Our client builds digital platforms for practice management and are seeking talented Principal and Senior Engineers to join their expanding team. As they expand their customer base and enhance their platform, your expertise and innovative thinking will be pivotal in solving complex challenges and driving their growth.

Why you’re special…

• Senior or Principal level experience in Java and React; alternatively experience with Node.js or C# is considered.
• Demonstrated ability in architectural design, system thinking, and logic-driven problem-solving.
• Proven ability to use AI tools for coding assistance.
• Holistic understanding of both front-end and back-end development.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Ideally you will have experience in a software company, particularly in a growth-oriented environment.
• Previous involvement in cloud-based software solutions is required.

Other Requirements:

• Flexibility to work 2-3 days a week in-office on the North Shore.
• Availability to start between 6 AM and 8 AM would be ideal to ensure alignment with overseas teams.

What’s in it for you…

• 6 month contract with potential to extend
• We payroll fortnightly
• Access to Talent hosted networking events and market insights
• Join an organisation with a culture of trust, autonomy and technical excellence

Do you have excellent administration, coordination and business support experience?

If that sounds like you, read on!

We’re seeking a very capable business support person to join a busy business group and provide high level administrative support across the group.

That means you’ll be providing business and administrative support, coordinating governance meetings, booking travel, providing financial administration, and coordinating events.

You’ll bring a suite of all round administrative and coordination skills and experience, and ideally have experience in the public sector. You’ll be accustomed to working with senior managers and understand managing confidentialities and sensitive information.

You’ll:

• have experience in administrative support or personal assistance roles
• thoroughly enjoy administrative support and making things happen – organising and prioritising is your natural thing!
• have a high level of attention to detail and able to think ahead
• be a true confidante
• be able to put events together and able to manage all the details
• enjoy being flexible, adaptable and have a can-do nature
• have solid systems capabilities including the Microsoft suite.

You’d be joining a collegial team that enjoys their work and providing excellent support to their business group.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you – don’t delay and apply now with your CV and a cover letter telling us why in your own words. We will be reviewing applications as they come in. Please note, you must be a New Zealand citizen to be eligible.

For more information or to discuss the role please contact Jacaleen Williams at Talent International on 021 732 996.

Shape the future of data, AI and modern data platforms

Talent’s client is looking for an experienced Customer Advisory Architect – Data & Analytics to help organisations unlock the full value of their data platforms and AI capabilities.
This is a senior pre-sales architecture role where you’ll partner with business stakeholders to understand complex problems, translate them into modern data architectures, and shape solution strategies that deliver measurable outcomes.

You’ll sit within a specialist pre-sales architecture team and collaborate closely with account managers, solution specialists, architects, and consulting leaders to design impactful solutions for customers across New Zealand.
If you enjoy working with senior stakeholders, running discovery workshops, and shaping modern data platform solutions, this role offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of enterprise data transformation.

The team
You’ll be joining a highly collaborative architecture and consulting environment, including:

• A pre-sales architecture team of 8 specialists
• A wider data and integration practice of around 60 people
• Close collaboration with architects, SMEs, consulting managers and the CTO

The organisation is a recognised Microsoft Fabric partner in APAC, with many projects currently centred around Fabric-based data platforms, alongside Databricks and modern analytics ecosystems.

What you’ll be doing

• Engage with senior business stakeholders to understand strategic goals, challenges and data opportunities
• Lead discovery sessions, workshops and demos to shape modern data and analytics solutions
• Design data platform architectures across technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Databricks and Snowflake ecosystems
• Translate business requirements into solution designs, commercials and proposal inputs
• Support the development of statements of work, solution sizing and delivery handover
• Partner with sales, technical and consulting teams to build strong solution strategies and go-to-market approaches
• Stay across emerging trends in data platforms, AI and analytics to help customers adopt modern capabilities

What you’ll bring

• Around 7-10+ years’ experience in data platform architecture, analytics consulting, or solution architecture
• Strong experience engaging with senior business stakeholders and executive audiences
• Expertise designing modern data platforms using technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Databricks or Snowflake
• Strong technical foundation including SQL, Python, data modelling and data engineering practices
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes
• Experience running workshops, discovery sessions, demos or proofs of concept
• Exposure to pre-sales activities including solution sizing, proposal inputs and commercial thinking

The ideal profile
The team is looking for someone who can bridge business and technology.
Many candidates are either:

• Strong technologists without stakeholder advisory experience, or
• Great consultants without deep data platform expertise.

The ideal person brings both – technical credibility and strong consulting capability.

What’s in it for you

• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid work options
• Collaborative and supportive team culture
• Birthday leave and volunteer days
• Regular team events and social activities
• Clear professional development pathways
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge data and AI transformation projects

Please note: Applicants must be based in New Zealand and have full legal rights to work in NZ.

If you enjoy helping organisations turn complex data challenges into impactful solutions, we’d love to hear from you!

Join our client as an IT Portfolio Manager, a role designed for a project professional who eager to step into a pivotal position that drives transformation. You will play a crucial role in overseeing the lifecycle of strategic initiatives and project delivery.

Required Skills:

• A foundational understanding of enterprise portfolio management or experience in project management roles.
• Ability to contribute to complex projects or programs across various business units, with a focus on delivering valuable outcomes.
• Strong financial understanding and the ability to investigate business cases.
• Excellent communication skills is a must, with the ability to work effectively with C-suite.
• Familiarity with project and portfolio management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Lean, PRINCE2) and a willingness to learn more.
• Strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to distil complex information into actionable insights.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Exposure to change management principles and a desire to develop coaching skills.
• A background in the financial services sector is an advantage.
• Experience in mentoring or supporting cross-functional teams is a plus.

This is an environment that rewards ownership and innovation. You will need to be a great influencer and storyteller as they are on an exciting journey of change.

If this sounds like you, please apply to JP Browne for a confidential chat.

Auckland City | Hybrid | 9-10 Week contract

We’re seeking a Matauranga Maori Advisor to uplift Maori representation across a nationally used education platform accessed by Years 6-10 students across Aotearoa.

This short-term contract will focus on reviewing existing content, identifying gaps, and strengthening resources through a Te Ao Maori lens, ensuring material is culturally grounded, curriculum-aligned, and age-appropriate.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong grounding in Matauranga Maori / Te Ao Maori
• Experience in library services (reference, curation, collection development) in an educational context desired
• Experience in seeking, evaluating, and curating online resources for specific audiences – eg: school-aged students will be a plus
• Experience in education, libraries, museums, tertiary, or community knowledge environments
• Confident in research and content curation capability
• Ability to apply a Maori worldview to digital or educational material

This is not a publishing role, you’ll prepare and recommend high-quality content ready for upload.

If you’re passionate about strengthening authentic Maori representation in education and want to make meaningful impact in a focused contract – apply now!.

For over 30 years Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry leading support, exclusive contractor benefits & a world-class digital platform ENGAGE to access it all. Apply today to see how we can elevate your career

Opportunity knocks:

Our client is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Engineer for an initial 3-month contract. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative, high-impact projects within a small technical team. They’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can work both collaboratively and independently to deliver strong, automated data solutions.

About the Role:

You will play a key role in designing, building, and automating data pipelines to drive efficiency and ensure reliable delivery.

Key focus areas include:

• Building and automating data feeds
• Extracting and transforming NZ data
• Delivering structured outputs via SFTP
• Automating end-to-end data pipelines to streamline operations

Key Responsibilities:

• Extract data from internal databases
• Design and structure datasets through Dimensional modelling, preferably using the Kimball methodology
• Build and automate Azure DevOps pipelines for seamless data flow
• Write and maintain YAML-based pipeline code to ensure strong data solutions
• Create automated data feeds to ensure timely delivery to target systems via SFTP
• Engage in hands-on collaboration within a small, dedicated technical team

Tech Environment:

• SQL / Relational databases
• Dimensional Modelling (Kimball)
• Azure DevOps
• YAML pipelines
• SFTP automation
• No SSIS / No Databricks required

If you’re ready to take on a short-term contract where you can make an immediate impact, apply today and let’s have a conversation.

Please note: Only applications based in New Zealand will be eligible for this opportunity.

Opportunity knocks…

We’re recruiting a Business Analyst to join our government client on a permanent basis. You’ll be working in a highly collaborative environment, contributing to large-scale initiatives across data, systems, and digital transformation.

Why you’re special…

• You’re a Business Analyst with 3-5 years’ experience (this is not a senior role), bringing strong documentation and process-mapping skills, plus a genuine ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
• You communicate clearly, collaborate naturally, and build trusted relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
• You have delivered data-centric projects, including data warehouse implementations, migrations, integrations, or privacy and compliance initiatives.
• You’ve contributed to complex, enterprise-scale projects, including ERP or CRM implementations, cross-platform integrations, or large web projects (new builds or major enhancements).
• Bonus points if you’ve worked with Salesforce.

What’s in it for you?

• Join a purpose-led organisation with a diverse and active project pipeline.
• Auckland CBD location.
• Supportive, close-knit team environment.
• Permanent opportunity.

Please apply now to register your interest.

We are only able to consider candidates with relevant NZ work rights who are currently based in New Zealand.

Join an industry leader developing innovative solutions for customer and client front-line portals.

You will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and implementing solutions that connect diverse systems and APIs.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience with MuleSoft and Java for backend development
• Strong proficiency in RESTful API development and integration
• Familiarity with end-to-end integration testing protocols
• Expertise in version control systems (preferably Git) and CI/CD pipelines
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and a collaborative approach to teamwork
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Experience working within an agile squad and familiarity with associated documentation and processes

This is an initial 6 month contract with opportunity for extension.

Please apply with an updated CV for a confidential chat.