Quality Analyst

Experience Hybrid working arrangements in a flexible environment.
- Permanent role based in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane.
- The role will commence in September

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

REA is evolving how it leverages data and technology to deliver benefits for customers.

Proptrack provides property data and technical platform solutions to customers in the financial and government sectors. The Engineering Team within Proptrack works together to deliver solutions to our internal and external customers. It is the core delivery centre for developing solutions to meet customer priorities and align with Proptrack‘s technology strategy.

What the role is all about
- As a Quality Analyst, you will bring your expertise in software quality techniques and tools to a collaborative team-based environment.
- You will be responsible for participating in designing and maintaining our products. You will be expected to help test the solutions implemented using a variety of programming languages, databases, and cloud technologies through planning and execution of appropriate testing strategy.
- You will coach and support an entire squad of developers, business analysts and product managers with testing best practices to ensure quality is built and inherent to team delivery.
- You will help implement agile software delivery practices such as automated testing and continuous integration.
- You will also work with other QAs in the tribe to build a quality framework that will contribute to the success of the tribe’s mission.

Who we’re looking for
- Someone who really enjoys being a QA coach and wants to upskill others in all facets of Quality Management, Quality Assurance and effective Software Testing.
- Someone who is a great team player, who works effectively in a collaborative team environment and is keen to work within a fast paced, agile environment.
- Someone who has sound software, technical and testing knowledge (3+ years experience would be ideal) & skills and is willing to educate others in these areas.
- Someone who has experience in defining and managing QA strategies for teams and the products they manage.
- Someone who is enthusiastic about collaborating with developers, product managers, business analysts and delivery leads to define a QA strategy that best meets the products/teams needs.
- Finally, someone with a sound understanding of testing automation, continuous delivery and managing testing suites. We use Automation Tools such as Playwright and Cypress, experience with these tools would be advantageous.

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 maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.