Senior Quality Analyst

**About REA Group:**

In 1995, in a garage in Melbourne, Australia, REA Group was born from a simple question: “Can we change the way the world experiences property?”

Could we? Yes. Are we done? Never.

Fast forward 30 years, REA Group is a market leader in online real estate in three continents and continuing to grow rapidly across the globe. The secret to our growth is staying true to that ‘day one’ mindset; the hunger to innovate, the ambition to change the world, and the curiosity to reimagine the future.

Our new Tech Center in Cyber City is dedicated to accelerating REA Group’s global technology delivery through relentless innovation. We’re looking for the best technologists, inventors and leaders in India to join us on this exciting new journey.

If you’re excited by the prospect of creating something magical from scratch, then read on.

**What the role is all about:**

The purpose of the Property Data Falcon team in PropTrack is to manage and enhance the core property data services. This includes the Property Data API Suite, which consists of various components such as the property data aggregation API (PDAPI), entitlement service, and market insights API (MIAPI).

The squad is responsible for ensuring the smooth deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of these APIs, as well as improving API observability, logging, and monitoring. also handle incident management and coordinate with stakeholders to maintain service level agreements (SLAs) and ensure the reliability of the property data services.

**As a Senior Quality Analyst**

+ **Scope** : You will be responsible for working with squads and tribes to design, build, and maintain our products. You will thrive in an environment with context switching, deeply technical domains, and communicating with a wide audience.

+ **Uplift Quality:** You will be expected to improve the quality of solutions implemented using a variety of programming languages, databases, and cloud technologies. You will work closely with your team and others to create and execute testing strategies that will ensure that solutions are the best they can be.

+ **Shift-left Quality:** Your coaching skills, wide experience and excellent judgement supports squads of developers, business analysts and product managers with testing best practices to shift-left quality of what the team builds and how they do it.

+ **Quality Champion:** You are the quality and will help by getting hands-on with creating and maintaining automated testing suites in a continuous integration environment.

+ You will work with other QAs in the group to create a quality framework that will help the tribe to achieve its mission.

**While no two days are likely to be the same, your typical responsibilities will include:**

+ Improve quality, capability and insight through initiatives & other activities.

+ Coaching the team to embrace a shift-left approach to testing.

+ Monitor key quality system metrics and process indicators to ensure adherence to compliance and performance expectations.

+ Liaise 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.

+ Use your experience and foresight to critique by involving in Discovery 60,90% sessions.

+ Define test strategy for end-to-end testing and test coverage.

+ Determine the appropriate testing techniques and tools to be used for end-to-end testing, such as automated testing or manual testing approaches.

+ Champion agile software quality practices such as developer pairing ,bug bashes and exploratory testing.

+ Supporting in deploying, maintaining and monitoring live systems.

+ Participate and contribute to the quality community in REA Group.

**Who we are looking for:**

+ Advanced problem solving and critical thinking skills.

+ Advanced software, technical and testing knowledge.

+ Proficient with Data quality and API Testing.

+ Experience working with continuous integration practices and tools.

+ Experience in tools and technologies such as POSTMAN , AWS, GraphQL

+ Demonstrated skills in test automation and ability to maintain existing tests (mostly Jest)

+ SQL skills to effectively analyse and validate data.

+ Demonstrated skills in defining and implementing testing strategies for large teams.

+ Able to be effective in a collaborative team environment.

+ Work productively in a fast paced and agile environment.

+ Have a positive, can-do attitude.

+ 3+ years of experience working in software testing and quality assurance.

+ Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or similar is highly desirable.

**Bonus points for:**

+ Knowledge of monitoring or maintaining system quality in production.

+ Property Data domain knowledge.

**What we offer:**

+ A hybrid and flexible approach to working.

+ Transport options to help you get to and from work, including home pick-up and drop-off.

+ Meals provided on site in our office.

+ Flexible leave options including parental leave, family care leave and celebration leave.

+ Insurance for you and your immediate family members.

+ Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing.

+ Continuous learning and development opportunities to further your technical expertise.

**The values we live by:**

Our values are at the core of how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions. We believe that how we work is equally important as what we do to achieve our goals. This commitment is at the heart of everything we do, from the way we interact with colleagues to the way we serve our customers and communities.

**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 e?ective 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.

**REA Group in India**

You might already recognise our logo. The REA brand does have an existing presence in India. In fact, we set up our new tech hub in Gurugram to be their neighbours!

REA Group holds a controlling interest in REA India Pte. Ltd., operator of established brands Housing.com, Makaan.com and PropTiger.com, three of the country’s leading digital property marketplaces.

Through our close connection to REA India, we’ve seen first-hand the incredible talent the country has to offer, and the huge opportunity to expand our global workforce. Our Cyber City Tech Center is an extension of REA Group; a satellite office working directly with our Australia HQ on local projects and tech delivery.