Senior QA Automation Engineer - Workspace Intelligence

LawVu is transforming the legal industry by providing the world’s leading and most loved platform for in-house legal teams.

Our aim is to make the lives of in-house legal teams and their business partners more productive and fulfilling. We are well on the way with some of the world’s leading global brands and best in-house legal teams already operating on LawVu.

Growing super fast, LawVu is headquartered in sunny Tauranga, New Zealand with teams in Australia, Europe, the USA and Ireland. Our culture is strongly values aligned where we look for people to bring their whole selves and join a team doing the best work of their lives.

We are looking for a full time Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our team. Although our offices are in Tauranga and Wellington, we are a remote first company and engineers located anywhere in New Zealand are encouraged to apply. You will be a key member of our product development team, leading test automation efforts and quality assurance processes to ensure continuous improvement of our QA efforts across our ever expanding product offering.

What you’ll do…

• Independently lead and collaborate with our engineering team to design and implement automated testing frameworks / tools
• Perform strategic manual and exploratory testing for complex scenarios and areas where automation isn't feasible or cost-effective
• Research industry best practices and champion continued adoption of our automated testing strategy
• Delivering automated tests and related artifacts using a range of modern tools in a time-constrained environment
• Collaborate with team members - including product managers to understand test scenarios, acceptance criteria and scope to complete testing using both manual and automated techniques.
• Complete Peer Review of pull requests for others in areas that are well known / understood
• Active participation in planning, automation prioritisation, daily stand ups, demos, and retrospectives
• Knowledge sharing, upskilling, and contributing to the growth of your peers and other team members
• Inspire confidence in QA activities and lead change and improvements

What you’ll need…

• At least 12 months experience mentoring / leading other QA / developer resources
• Strong test development skillset (.NET, javascript)
• 5+ years experience with test automation using tools such as Playwright, Specflow, etc
• Competency using Visual Studio and Git source control
• Demonstrated capability in testing web API + UI and mobile applications
• Experience testing Microsoft Azure / Amazon AWS / SaaS solutions
• Experience working in an Agile project delivery environment and daily releases
• Performance testing experience highly regarded
• Be a self-starter, have a positive, resilient, can-do attitude, and embrace challenges
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Experienced with working with NZ companies

Beneficial Skills & Experience

• Test experience with AI products, including AI evaluation frameworks
• Experience in the legal sector
• Azure DevOps experience (pipeline development)
• Azure Infra-as-Code experience (ARM, bicep)
• Recognised test certification is valued (e.g. ISEB, ISTQB)

What sets us apart

• Monthly wellness allowance to use on whatever enables you to bring your whole self to work - gym membership, massage, childcare.. the list goes on!
• Health insurance cover
• Extended paid parental leave
• Extra paid day off on your birthday
• Share options so you can have a piece of the pie
• Home office allowance set up for remote employees

Why LawVu?

At LawVu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

Our team is only as strong as the culture it is built upon. Our core values are:

Inspire and Delight

We take pride in what we do and go the extra mile to create experiences that inspire and delight our customers.

Move Swiftly

We do what we say we will do, moving fast to get the right things done to make an impact.

Dig Deeper

No challenge is too big. With courage we embrace the challenge, learn from our mistakes and share the knowledge

Take Ownership

With every decision and behaviour, however big or small, we take ownership of it's impact on our business.

Back yourself. Back others

We strive to be supportive, honest people who respect each other and build a high level of trust to perform as a winning team.

Bring your Woo

Woo is what energises us, brings us joy and makes us unique. We seek to create a safe environment that fosters bringing your whole self so you can thrive.

We are constantly working towards making LawVu one of the best places to work, for everyone. LawVu is committed to providing equality of opportunity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion. We will ensure this by fostering a workplace where people feel safe to be themselves, are able to do the best work of their lives and fulfil their potential. We believe by bringing together our diversity of thoughts and backgrounds, we will develop a world class product for the equally diverse customers we serve.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. If you would like to apply and need reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.