[Hiring] Senior Quality Automation Engineer @Re-Leased

Role Description

We're looking for a senior quality automation engineer to own the quality system for am:pm — based in Napier or remote from another city in New Zealand. The whole squad owns quality; you build the automation, quality controls, and practices that make that possible. This is an automation-led role:

• Engineers write unit and integration tests.
• You shape where automated coverage sits across the test pyramid and steward the end-to-end suite.
• AI is a core part of how you work — generating tests, triaging failures, creating test data.
• Support the move to continuous delivery with the right level of automated quality controls.
• Quality means testing agentic behaviour: non-deterministic outputs, tool use, statistical rather than binary correctness.

This is a small-team, start-up environment inside an established SaaS business — less process, more agency, and a tight feedback loop with real customers.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality automation across the test pyramid — set where coverage sits so tests run at the layer that's cheapest and most reliable.
• Support our move to continuous delivery — design the right level of automated quality controls (pipeline gates, smoke checks, release signals).
• Use AI tooling as a first-class part of your workflow — test generation, bug triage, test data creation.
• Curate AI-generated tests and findings — decide what to keep, reject, or refine.
• Shape how we test AI-powered features — advise on when evals are the right quality control.
• Partner with engineers on acceptance criteria and coach them on designing test scenarios from a user's perspective.
• Run exploratory and risk-based testing to find what automation misses.
• Analyse quality workflows — triage, release, escape defects — and drive structural improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA experience in a SaaS product environment, with automation at the centre of how you work.
• Track record of designing test automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Comfortable working in a production codebase — Git, branches, PRs, code review.
• CI/CD fluent — understand what runs when and where tests fit.
• Actively using AI tools in your workflow today.
• Genuine interest in testing AI products.
• Strong exploratory testing instincts and sound test-pyramid judgment.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, change, and making calls with incomplete information.
• A genuine focus on the customer outcome.

Bonus

• Experience with LLM eval frameworks — golden datasets, judge models, statistical thresholds.
• Experience with adversarial testing of AI systems — prompt injection, jailbreaks, hostile inputs.
• API testing chops (REST), performance or accessibility testing experience.
• Prior start-up or zero-to-one product experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance, access to a premium EAP service, and an annual wellness allowance.
• Generous paid parental leave and flexible, family-friendly support.
• Recognition for tenure and milestones with milestone rewards and additional leave.
• Flexible working, built for a global team with a hybrid, remote-friendly approach.

Company Description

At Re-Leased, our vision is to shape the future of Commercial Real Estate and drive better outcomes for people, property, and planet. We're building am:pm — an agentic AI product for commercial real estate operators.