Senior Quality Analyst

The safety and wellbeing of our employees and potential employees are important to us. All external candidates will be interviewed over Zoom and we will not be conducting any face-to-face interviews in any of REA’s Australian offices – with no exceptions. The reasons for this are not only to protect the health and safety of our people, but also to assure candidates that there is no expectation from REA to meet face-to-face. A virtual interview will not adversely impact your application. If you have any questions or concerns, this can be discussed through the screening process.

Please note this role is Part time - 4 days a week on an initial 12 months fixed term basis.

We’re REA

An Australian start-up success story we’re quietly proud of.

From a garage in Melbourne to the global stage is an achievement we’re humbled by. Our idea to put pictures of houses on the internet has blossomed since 1995, and we now have businesses across Australia, Asia, India and North America.

Our purpose is to change the way the world experiences property. No matter where you’re at on your property journey, we’re here to help on every step – whether that’s buying, selling, renting or renovating.

Some of our brands include realestate.com.au, realcommercial.com.au, spacely.com.au, and Flatmates.com.au, Hometrack.com.au and Smartline.

What we’re doing

With us, you’ll experience Impact. This role is based in the Consumer Insights and Analytics Squad within the Data Service tribe. The Data Services Tribe supports and develops data flows, data storage and data insights which underpin REA’s revenue and product growth. We’re the engine room of REA.

Our mission is to:

• Improve the quality, access and usage of our data for staff, consumers, and customers
• Build reusable data products and patterns that unlock value stored in our data
• Create unique insights based on user, listings, property and customer data
• Invest in the reliability, quality and security of systems and data
• Be the place for property data

Where the CIA squad fits in:

Consumer Insights and Analytics squad is responsible for managing behavioural data of REA consumers. CIA deals with batch and streamed data pipelines that aims to produce consumer data that is clean, fresh and reliable for the rest of REA to consume. This squad also works closely with the Tag Management Team that ensures all events that REA consumers interact with in our websites are tracked accordingly and flows through to the data pipelines

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Quality Analyst, you will be responsible for working with cross-functional squads to ensure stability, availability and reliability of data, production services and data platform through planning and execution of appropriate testing. You will coach and support an entire squad of developers, data engineers, analysts and product managers with testing best practices to ensure quality is built and inherent to team delivery. You will serve as the quality champion of the team and will help implement agile software delivery practices such as automated testing and continuous integration. You will also work with other QA's in the tribe to build a quality framework that will contribute to the success of the tribe’s mission.

Key Accountabilities

• Coaching the team to embrace a shift-left approach to testing.
• Defining test strategies for projects that may involve new internal or external platforms.
• Collaborating with immediate team and/or team/s across the business to execute the strategy.
• Liaising with product team, business analysts and developers to ensure that planned testing meets their requirements.
• Seeking feedback with the product and technical team to identify risks on solutions and devising mitigation plans.
• Lead and execute different types of tests required for new projects, products and their enhancements.
• Contributing to the Quality Analysis community of practice for REA Group.
• Providing mentoring and guidance to less experienced members of the team.

We’re looking for someone who…

• 5+ years of experience working in software testing and quality assurance
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or similar highly desirable
• Experience in testing ETL services and data migration projects
• Experience in building automation frameworks for data pipelines
• Experience in projects that integrates with platforms
• Advanced problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Advanced software, technical and testing knowledge.
• Demonstrated skills in defining and implementing testing strategies for multiple large teams and complex platforms.
• Demonstrated skills in SQL across different tools and languages.
• Able to be effective in a collaborative team environment.
• Able to mentor and coach other team members.
• Have a positive, can do attitude and is comfortable with a bit of unknowns

But we don’t just look for someone based on their skills and expertise.  It’s our connection, acceptance and genuine care for each other that makes REA a great place to work. That means you also need to be:

• Savvy minded and have the ability to think a little left of field / outside the box
• A strong and creative communicator
• Digitally savvy (being a tech company, we need to know that you love all things tech)
• Friendly, approachable and have good relationship management
• An avid supporter of our fully inclusive culture - we celebrate difference and ensure that everyone belongs

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:

• Onsite health and wellbeing programs, including yoga and meditation classes, and weekly massages (Melbourne only)
• Because We Care program which includes volunteer leave and community grants, to ensure you have the opportunity to give back to your community
• Hack Days so you can bring your big ideas to life (Melbourne only)
• An additional day of leave just for your birthday
• A flexible working environment meaning we strike the balance of what you need and what works for the business (and yes, our leaders fully understand the flexible working policy)
• Free breakfast (and who doesn’t love a free brekkie) (Interstate only)
• Industry leading gender-neutral parental leave

If you like the sound of us, then we think you should apply today. While we take a look at your application, we encourage you to get to know us a bit more through our various social channels.