Head of QA
Could you be our next Head of QA?
Reapit – Who are we?
Reapit is the original, end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We’ve been helping sales and lettings agents to build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years. Our technology connects property professionals in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand with buyers, sellers, tenants and landlords to power the relationships that change lives.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Reapit’s market-leading technology product suite provides estate and lettings agents with powerful tools covering lead generation, sales, lettings, property management, block management, client accounts, key management and analytics, underpinned by a robust, security infrastructure.
Worldwide, Reapit technology is used by over 78,000 agents in more than 15,000 branches, with over a million properties under management; enabling them to run their businesses, identify opportunities for growth, manage their properties, collect rent, communicate with their clients, and deliver an outstanding customer experience, every time.
What you’ll be doing
Reporting to the VP of Engineering you’ll be involved in:
- Managing QA leads across the UK and wider EMEA regional businesses, who are responsible in turn for individual QA teams.
- Working with QA leads to ensure the highest standards are applied consistently across individual products, QA automation strategies are clearly defined and executed, and manual QA approaches are consistent, effective and efficient.
- Executing on the QA and automation testing strategy across the region.
- Collaborating with ANZ regional head to deliver on an aligned strategic QA plan.
In this capacity, your responsibilities will include:
- Lead on the execution of, a comprehensive QA strategy for all Reapit products.
- Author and distribute scalable, re-usable tools and libraries to drive best practice and rapid development in the QA automation testing space.
- Report on QA activities and outcomes within the UK and EMEA region.
- Empower and support QA leads in addressing challenges within their teams and driving pragmatic process improvements.
- Advise the Global Head of Product Delivery and VPE on factors affecting departmental cost, e.g. resourcing and tooling needs.
- Provide mentoring to QA leads and support their technical and personal development.
- Work with the Global Head of Product Delivery and VPE to:
- Ensure optimal allocation of resources to meet quality assurance requirements.
- Ensure the QA department is structured and resourced appropriately according to business goals, and that key person risks are identified and mitigated.
- Continuously evaluate and improve QA practices, standards, and ways of working.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement within the QA department and drive a culture of quality throughout the entire business.
- Ensure all teams are working towards an optimal balance of manual testing vs. automation.
Who we’re looking for
At Reapit, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. Whilst some of the listed requirements may be important, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, we’d still like to hear from you.
- At least 3 years of experience in QA management roles in an Agile development environment.
- Extensive experience of implementing modern automated browser-based QA tools like Playwright and Cypress.
- Experience of integrating automated QA tools into CI/CD pipelines like GitHub Actions and Circle CI.
- Experience executing on a QA strategy.
- Proven ability to manage senior staff and people managers.
- Excellent communication skills, mature and professional, proactive, pragmatic, able to work methodically to deadlines.
- Detailed knowledge of QA best practices and quality management systems.
- Experience working with cloud-based computing services – e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Experience with Jira & Confluence.
- Able to drive a culture of quality throughout an entire business.
- Experience working with and/or managing offshore resources.
- Desirable experience includes: experience delivering SaaS products, experience within/knowledge of the Real Estate industry.
What your impact and success looks like
As a Head of QA, we expect your success and impact in the early stages of your career with us to look something like this:
Within 1 month:
- Build general product/domain knowledge and knowledge of committed projects/improvements currently in progress.
- Begin working with QA Leads to understand existing practices and long-term strategic goals.
- Begin assessing the current state of QA across the business.
Within 3 months:
- Working with the VPE and Head of Product Development, begin to execute on the QA strategy within the UK and wider EMEA business.
- Begin to develop generic distributed toolchains that internal teams can adopt to drive standardised automated testing adoption.
- Identify weaknesses/challenges within the existing teams and their processes, and identify priority areas for improvement.
- Begin establishing reporting approaches/mechanisms to provide visibility on QA effectiveness and ability to measure improvements.
Within 6 months:
- Work with QA leads to build UK & EMEA roadmaps which enhance our QA capability and effectiveness, and support the global QA strategy.
- Will have rolled out a library of distributed automation tools that are actively adopted by teams in all areas of the business.
- Begin executing key strategic roadmap initiatives.
- Produce recommendations for QA resourcing needs over the next 1-3 years inline with the global QA strategy but considerate of regional, product-specific needs.
What’s in it for you?
We operate a Flexible Working Policy and we would like for you to work from a Reapit office occasionally, dependent on project/team requirements. Regular office days are not currently a firm requirement.
We’re offering the chance to really make a difference here at Reapit and the opportunity for personal growth is very real. You’ll feel part of a special team. You can expect a highly competitive salary and some great benefits, including:
- 5.5% employer pension contribution
- 23 days annual leave (plus a day for your birthday) increasing by a day for every year worked (capped at 24 days)
- Business permitting, we’re closed over Christmas, to give you time back to your friends and family
- Formal and in-house training for your L&D plus access to Go1 – the world's largest online learning library
- Health benefits including Gym Flex, annual flu vaccinations and many others
- Season ticket loan
- Regular local and companywide social events including Tucker Thursday - mouth-watering cuisine delivered straight to the office doors once a month!
- Opportunity to participate in retail benefits and savings via our Benefits partner, Benni!
Don’t tick all the boxes? Neither do we
We are driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but also our mission and values and possessing the right attitudes and behaviours for success.
The diversity of our team reflects the diversity of our community and customers. We not only welcome but celebrate diverse communities. We feel we have an empowering environment where everyone is supported and respected, and we want you to feel this too. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches and listen intently, and are strongly committed to learning and improving on this as we grow.
- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- Reapit London office , Reapit Solihull office
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
About Reapit
- Used by 2/3 of the UK’s most profitable estate agencies
- 15,000+ estate agency branches worldwide
- 78,000+ sales & lettings agents
- 1m+ properties under management
Head of QA
Could you be our next Head of QA?
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