Fixed-term contract until 2nd January 2025

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.

Which team is this 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

Working with our team of QAs, you’ll be focussing on a quality framework that will contribute to the success of the tribe’s mission.

You'll be responsible for working with several cross-functional squads to design, build, and maintain our products, as well as improving the quality of solutions implemented.

Day to day of the job

• Improving quality, capability and insight through initiatives & other activities.

• Monitoring key quality system metrics and process indicators to ensure adherence to compliance and performance expectations

• Liaising with product team, business analysts and developers in team(s) level to ensure that planned testing meets their requirements, to identify risks on solutions and devising mitigation plans.

• Using your experience and foresight to critique by involving in Discovery 60,90% sessions

• Defining test strategy for end-to-end testing and test coverage

• Determining the appropriate testing techniques and tools to be used for end-to-end testing, such as automated testing or manual testing approaches

• Championing agile software quality practices such as developer pairing and bug bashes

• Contributing to the Quality Guild community by sharing learnings and uplifting the knowledge and skills of others.

• Providing mentoring and guidance to less experienced members of the team

Who we’re looking for

To set yourself up for success in this role you will have ideally gained experience in the following areas:  ​

• Skills in Web and API testing

• Working with a large team as a quality engineer/quality coach

• Building and maintaining automation frameworks: both UI and API

• Working with continuous integration practices and tools

• Developing test automation architecture using open-source frameworks like Cypress or Playwright for Web and API

• Defining and implementing testing strategies for multiple large teams

• As a bonus, knowledge of monitoring or maintaining system quality in production

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.

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Keen to be part of REA but didn't find a perfect match with this opportunity? Perhaps the timing isn't right? You should join our Talent Neighbourhood!

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