Quality Assurance Engineer

We’re one of the world’s largest privately owned real estate tech companies and a subsidiary of Axel Springer. Our mission is to unlock everyone’s perfect place! Some of Europe’s best known digital real estate marketplaces and brands form part of our Group, they are: Meilleurs Agents, Groupe SeLoger, Immoweb, Immowelt, Housell and Yad2.

We also invest in innovative business models which shape the future of how people buy, sell, rent or lend properties and hold minority participations in companies such as: PurpleBricks, Homeday, Zumper and Parcel.

Our ambition is to be the leading Employer in PropTech across Europe and this is a pivotal time to join us as we embark on this journey enabling us to help unlock everyone’s perfect place!

We are looking for Germany-based candidates; hiring location either in Hamburg or Berlin or remotely out of Germany.

One of our main tasks is to develop standards and best practices to help teams deliver a high level of software quality. As quality ambassadors in the teams, we help to increase the maturity level iteratively to be able to react faster to the market. In addition, we participate in central decisions and evaluate them from the quality assurance point view point. Due to our present in all actor groups, we have the view of the big picture and can help to counteract possible side effects or risks at an early stage.

Become part of our team and support us in bringing our quality mindset to the organisation!

Job Description

WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO CAN:

• Be part of an agile, multidisciplinary, international team and work closely with them to ensure our products have a high quality
• Work with the product team to establish quality standards within the sprints, develop a test plan and deliver high quality builds on time
• Work with product owners and developers to improve the overall experience by suggesting improvements and changes
• Align and collaborate with the rest of the quality team to improve the overall quality of our products, assess risks, promote consistency, identify common needs
• Develop test strategies for automation both for backend and frontend
• Write and execute both functional and non-functional tests
• Convince with an analytical way of thinking

AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS:

• Solid experience (at least 3 Years) in the Quality Assurance field, preferably with web applications
• Practical experience working with agile methodologies
• Degree in Computer Science or other relevant qualifications
• ISTQB Certification is a plus
• Practical experience creating and maintaining UI automation tests and API tests
• Automation experience using test tools like Cypress, Testcafé, WebdriverIO or similar frameworks
• The ability for reading and writing code in at least one programming language, ideally JavaScript or TypeScript
• Experience with CI/CD Tools
• Knowledge with performance test tools
• The characteristic to be a proactive team player that analyses the risk and impact of issues and is working with the team to prioritise and resolve them
• Any experience with performance, GDPR, accessibility, interoperability and security testing is a plus
• Excellent communication skills, with fluency in English (German would be an advantage)
• Willingness to travel

• We are one of the leading PropTech platforms in Europe. If you’ve ever rented or purchased a property then you may have used one of our classified portals. This is a great time to join us to help elevate our AVIV brand.
• A high visibility role in our organisation reporting into our Director of Product.
• 30 Days of Holidays guaranteed and the freedom to organize your day the way it fits you best.
• Unlimited self-development opportunities.
• The opportunity to work hybrid within our operating footprint with international travel to our locations in France, Belgium and Germany.
• The autonomy to work in a style which suits you to be the most productive
• The freedom to tell us which tools you need to be successful in your job so we can set you up to make it happen.