Working in a dev role a the Department of Internal affairs

The entrance of the DIA building in Wellington city.

In this role I was in the Web Services team.
We had a front-end and back-end developer and a tester, working with the Design & Accessibility team and the Product owners for the three different websites we were maintaining.
It gave me a great insight of the branch I was in and got me to see different roles working together.
I got to work in both front-end and testing roles, and appreciated the experience but not so much the CMS we were using (Silverstripe).
It was very clunky and complex, most new version did not have an updated documentation, it was terrible.

But were I thought was my happy place was in the front-end with Sass/CSS. I'm more of a visual person so that was quite fun to work on dev tickets related to the Gazette website.

The Gazette website is like a digital version of the newspaper that lists companies and organisations that are liquidated and else but also publishes the bills from the New Zealand parliament that have been passed. So by law if its on the Gazette, the bill is takes effect now.

On the testing side, using Playwright (a JS testing framework), to test the different panels and UI on the websites. So making sure the different style changes made in Sass/CSS match what the Design team and their Figma file.