Quality Analyst

Quality Analyst

We're REA

REA Group

is not your average digital business. From humble beginnings in a garage in Melbourne’s east in 1995, we have grown into a leading global digital business, specialising in property.

With bold and ambitious goals, we are changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you're at on your property journey, we're here to help with every step - whether that's finding or financing your next home.

Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we’re proud to be named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.

Where the team fits in

The App Team is a native platform team that are empowered to build out the core native capabilities required for the Ignite App, whilst also supporting many other lines of business to federate into the native platform. They build, own and operate both the iOS and Android Ignite App experiences.

The team operates under a federated model supporting multiple lines of business (LOB) to enable and deliver upon our key customer strategy. This means the team get to work, learn, share challenges, and celebrate success alongside many people and teams across all parts of the organisations.

Although the team is a platform team at heart, and key to enabling other teams to deliver great experiences, we also get heavily involved with our own feature development that further enhanced the ever-growing Ignite Native Platform.

What the role is all about

This role will be focussed on supporting the Ignite Platform, most specifically the App/Native side of the experience. For a little bit more context, the Ignite Platform is positioned to be the tool of choice for all customers that utilise REA to support their business. Ignite is available to our customers across both web and apps which is underpinned by a backend that integrates with many core systems across our business.

The responsibilities of the role include:

- Working with cross-functional squad
- Collaborating with developers, designers, and product managers to understand requirements, validate user stories, and ensure efficient testing processes.
- Sharing your expertise and best practices in mobile app testing.
- Perform manual and automated testing across multiple mobile platforms (iOS, Android), screen sizes, and resolutions.
- Providing actionable feedback to improve app quality and user experience.
- Assisting test automation efforts, investigating, developing and maintaining automated test scripts
- Regression test to ensure release quality
- Coaching the team to embrace a shift-left approach to testing.
- Supporting production systems. Coach team to build high quality solutions that meet the needs of our users.

Who we’re looking for
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail and a commitment to quality.
- Great multi-tasker.
- Ability to manage the competing demands of multiple projects in a timely manner.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment with mínimal supervision
- Experience in test automation or the desire to learn test automation
- Knowledge and experience of agile software delivery methodologies
- Experience in projects that integrates with platforms
- Able to coach other team members
- Have a positive, can do attitude.
- Demonstrate interest in learning new tools and technology
- 2+ years of experience working in software testing and quality assurance.

The REA experience

The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow. We’re committed to your development - both professionally and personally. Your experience with us is something we take seriously.

We offer:

- A hybrid and flexible approach to working - Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers
- Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing
- Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity.
- Hack Days so you can bring your big ideas to life
- Performance recognition programs because hard work should never go unnoticed

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking - be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaini