Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Does driving innovation and creating better experiences through technology inspire you?

At Re-Leased, we're levelling up real estate and helping property professionals thrive in a digital-first world. Our cloud-based property management platform combines smart automation, AI-driven insights, and deep industry expertise to make everyday work simpler and more rewarding. We're here to help property people run better businesses, build stronger communities, and love what they do.

Your Role

We are seeking a
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
to play a strategic and impactful role in shaping how we deliver high-quality software across our engineering organisation. As the senior QA within our product squads, you will act as an testing authority, a technical partner to engineers, and a catalyst for improving quality practices across the full development lifecycle.

This role is ideal for a technically credible QA professional who thrives on collaboration, is passionate about shifting quality left, and is excited by the potential for AI-enhanced tooling to transform how we test—while maintaining a pragmatic, value-driven perspective.

You will guide risk analysis, strengthen automation practices, and coach teams to take full ownership of quality.

If you value leadership through expertise, curiosity, and enabling others, this is the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Act as the Quality Expert Embedded in Engineering Squads

• Serve as the senior QA representative across multiple squads, providing oversight and strategic direction on quality.
• Partner closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure quality is embedded from the earliest stages of ideation to post-release monitoring.
• Champion a culture of quality ownership—guiding engineers toward building more testable, resilient systems.

Lead Shift-Left Quality Transformation

• Influence design decisions to reduce risk and improve testability.
• Review pull requests with a focus on coverage, test design, and potential failure modes.
• Evolve team processes to catch issues early, minimise rework, and streamline delivery.

Drive Strategic Risk Analysis & Test Planning

• Lead risk assessment sessions, helping teams evaluate product behaviour, edge cases, and failure patterns.
• Develop test strategies that prioritise risk, user impact, and long-term maintainability.

Execute Deep Exploratory Testing

• Conduct thorough exploratory testing to uncover nuanced issues across functionality, edge cases, integration paths, and user experience.
• Translate complex findings into actionable insights with clear impact assessments.

Strengthen and Evolve Automated Testing

• Contribute to the architecture, design, and maintenance of automated test suites across UI, API, and integration layers.
• Bring a balanced perspective—automating where it provides lasting value and relying on thoughtful manual techniques where they uncover deeper risk.

Experiment with and Evaluate AI Testing Tooling

• Explore emerging AI capabilities—test generation, coverage insights, exploratory testing aids—and identify meaningful, practical opportunities for adoption.
• Separate genuine value from hype, sharing insights and recommendations with the wider engineering organisation.

Coach, Mentor & Elevate Quality Mindsets

• Support engineers in building strong testing habits and understanding risk-driven quality principles.
• Mentor junior and intermediate QA team members in both technical skills and strategic thinking.
• Lead workshops, guide pairing sessions, and contribute to improving our overall QA maturity.

Your Experience

• 5+ years of professional QA or Quality Engineering experience, including senior responsibilities influencing engineering-level quality improvements.
• Strong technical proficiency, including the ability to read and understand code (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or similar), review PRs for testability and coverage, and engage meaningfully in engineering discussions.
• Proven experience implementing shift-left practices and empowering engineering teams to take greater ownership of quality.
• Advanced exploratory testing skills, able to uncover subtle, high-impact issues and articulate risks clearly.
• Deep experience architecting and maintaining automated test suites, with a pragmatic understanding of when automation creates value versus unnecessary complexity.
• Hands-on experience conducting risk analysis, shaping test strategies, and planning QA activities across complex systems.
• A coaching-oriented mindset, with experience mentoring engineers and QA colleagues to develop stronger testing and quality instincts.
• Curiosity and experience experimenting with AI or emerging QA tooling, paired with a critical, practical sense for where such tools genuinely help.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence without authority, working collaboratively across engineering, product, and design.
• Experience working in lean, agile environments, bringing structure to fast-paced delivery without introducing unnecessary overhead.

Our culture
is very important to us too, and we strongly believe in living out our core values:

• People First
  : One team globally; our people and customers always come first.
• Find a Way
  : Like a river, we find a way around all obstacles
• Win or Learn:
  Our journey for improvement never ends; enjoy the ride
• Aim High:
  We dare to set big goals and love the challenge of achieving them against the odds.

Why you'll love working here

Taking care of you:
Including comprehensive health insurance, access to a premium EAP service and an annual wellness allowance to spend on what helps you feel good - whether that's towards a gym membership, new running shoes, or mindfulness apps.

Support for families:
Generous paid parental leave and flexible, family-friendly support designed to help growing families balance work and life with confidence.

Recognition for tenure and milestones:
We celebrate time, commitment, and contribution with milestone rewards and additional leave as you grow your career with us.

Flexible working, built for a global team:
With customers and teammates across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America, we work in a hybrid, remote-friendly way with collaborative offices and the flexibility of a balanced approach to WFH/i-office work.