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# QA Engineer - SAP SuccessFactors at Foodstuffs North Island

- **Company:** Foodstuffs North Island
- **Location:** Mangere, New Zealand
- **Compensation:** NZD 120k–NZD 130k
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/foodstuffs/659ad100-c083-405b-b51a-e85066b5489f

## Job description

Ko wai mātou – About us Kia ora.  We’re Foodies.  You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us! With 300+ stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life.  Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.

Our Support Centre is 1,500+ people strong, which includes 500+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”. Te Tūranga – About the role Join our Quality Engineering Practice for 12 Month Fixed Term Contract and play a key role in ensuring our SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central platform delivers a reliable, secure and seamless experience for our people. As a SAP SuccessFactors Quality Engineer, you’ll work across core HR processes, employee lifecycle changes, workflows, permissions, HR data and integrations, helping ensure everything is thoroughly tested and ready for release.

## What you’ll do

Design, prepare, and execute functional, integration, regression and release testing across SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. Validate end-to-end employee lifecycle processes, including hire, rehire, transfer, promotion, job change, manager change, leave of absence, termination, retirement, and employee data updates. Validate HR data, organisational structures, workflows, business rules, permissions and effective-dated changes. Test integrations between SuccessFactors Employee Central and downstream systems such as payroll, identity and access management, reporting platforms, learning, recruitment, time and attendance, rostering, finance, or data platforms. Validate inbound and outbound interface behaviour, including file-based integrations, APIs, middleware-driven flows, error handling, and reconciliation. Identify, manage and retest defects through to resolution. Support UAT and work closely with HR, Payroll, People Systems, Product Owners and technical teams. Contribute to test automation using Tricentis TOSCA where it adds sustainable value. Share knowledge and contribute to continuous improvement across our QA Community of Practice. Ngā painga - What we offer We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes). Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores

He kōrero mōu - About you Strong SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central testing experience, including configuration changes, enhancements, integrations and release cycles. A solid understanding of Employee Central data and HR processes, including employee profile, personal information, employment and job information, foundation objects, positions and organisational structures. Experience validating business rules, workflows, role-based permissions and data propagation. Strong experience with integration and regression testing, ideally across SuccessFactors and systems such as Payroll, Identity & Access Management, reporting, Learning, Recruitment, Time & Attendance or Finance. The ability to test and validate inbound and outbound interfaces, APIs, integration files, middleware flows, error handling and data reconciliation. Experience with Tricentis TOSCA or other test automation tools would be highly valued. Exposure to other SAP SuccessFactors modules, SAP Integration Centre, OData APIs, Compound Employee API, Integration Suite or middleware would be advantageous. Familiarity with test management tools such as HP ALM, qTest, Xray, Zephyr, or TestRail, and documentation tools such as Confluence or SharePoint. Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with business, functional, and technical stakeholders. Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you. We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to  Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz.  Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

Don’t ‘cart’ around – apply now! Are you ready to be part of our bunch – apply now!

## About Foodstuffs North Island

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: New Zealand's largest grocery retailer, a cooperative of locally owned PAK'nSAVE, New World, Four Square, and Gilmours stores, serving communities across the North Island.
- **Entity Type**: Private (cooperative)
- **Headquarters**: Auckland, New Zealand (Support Centre in Mangere; additional offices in Wellington and Palmerston North)
- **Founded**: 1922
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (cooperative structure, no individual founders)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Retail grocery and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
- Target customers: B2C (consumers via retail stores and online), B2B (businesses via Gilmours wholesale)
- Mission: "Making sure New Zealanders get more out of life"

## Products & Services
- **PAK'nSAVE**: Discount grocery stores focused on value pricing.
- **New World**: Full-service supermarkets with a wide product range.
- **Four Square**: Convenience stores tailored to local communities.
- **Gilmours**: Wholesale supply for businesses, cafes, and restaurants.
- **Online Shopping**: Click & collect and home delivery options across banners.
- **Mobile Checkouts & Technology**: Self-service checkouts, mobile checkout options, and innovative store designs (metros, cut-throughs) to speed up shopping.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private cooperative)
- **Key Metric**: 24,000 employees (“Foodies”); 350+ stores; ~4.08 million customer visits per week; over 5 million individual grocery items sold daily.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 100% New Zealand owned and operated; owned by over 300 local grocery retailers (cooperative members). Partners with local suppliers, stocking over 60,000 products.
- **Growth Signals**: Investing ~$100 million annually in new and transformed stores; planned ~8 new store openings in FY24; $50 million invested in innovation in 2021; proposal to merge with Foodstuffs South Island to streamline operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cooperative Model**: Local owner-operators have deep community ties, tailoring product ranges to local needs while benefiting from the scale of a national network.
- **Scale & Efficiency**: One of the largest supply chains in New Zealand, with dedicated distribution, logistics, and transport teams.
- **Customer-Driven Innovation**: Heavy investment in technology (mobile checkouts, online shopping) and store formats to enhance customer experience.
- **Workforce Development**: Largest trainer of butchers and bakers in New Zealand; strong internal career pathways including potential store ownership.

## Strategic Focus
- **Merger with Foodstuffs South Island**: A proposal to merge the two co-ops into one entity to streamline business operations.
- **Customer Experience**: Continuous improvement of product range, value, and convenience; leveraging data and analytics (e.g., Loyalty Insights & Customer Analytics Manager role).
- **Digital & Technology**: Investing in Salesforce, SAP, and other enterprise systems; hybrid roles in IT, analytics, and engineering.
- **Sustainability & Community**: Supporting local suppliers, reducing environmental impact, and serving over 1.4 million customers weekly.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a “whānau” (family) with a strong sense of belonging; cooperative values mean every employee contributes to something bigger.
- **Work Arrangements**: Many support centre and supply chain roles offer hybrid work (e.g., Mangere, Wellington, Palmerston North). Store roles are on-site.
- **Career Growth**: Opportunities across retail, supply chain, support centre (finance, marketing, IT, legal). Pathways to store ownership for motivated team members.
- **Perks & Training**: Largest trainer of butchers and bakers in NZ; professional development programs; scale and security of a 100-year-old organisation.
- **Engineering & Tech**: Roles like Salesforce Technical Lead, Senior SAP Developer, SuccessFactors Support Analyst, and Deployment Specialist indicate a modernising tech environment.

## Sources
1. [foodstuffs.co.nz](https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz/news-room/Get-the-facts-fsni) – Company facts and figures
2. [foodstuffs.co.nz](https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz/working-at-foodies) – Working at Foodies overview
3. [jobs.lever.co/foodstuffs](https://jobs.lever.co/foodstuffs) – Current open positions (hybrid, tech roles)
4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/foodstuffs-auckland-limited) – LinkedIn company page (followers, employee count, revenue)
5. [foodstuffs.careers](https://foodstuffs.careers/about-us.php) – Careers site with culture and role descriptions

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