Principal Engineer - QA & Automation

Datacom
Full time Wellington, Wellington Computer Occupations
Posted:
June 09, 2026
Location:
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Job Description

Our Why


Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)


The bottleneck in modern software delivery is no longer writing code — it’s verifying that code works. As Principal Engineer – QA and Automation, you will own the quality architecture for a platform where AI agents generate a significant and growing share of production code. Your job is to build the verification and validation systems that make this possible — the automated oracle testing, risk-calibrated quality gates, integration harnesses, and regression infrastructure that give us confidence to ship at the speed AI enables.

 

What you’ll do


As Principal Engineer – QA and Automation you will be focused on:

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full time
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Posted: June 09, 2026
Deadline: July 19, 2026