At Realtor.com®, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.

Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Join us and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.

Sr. SDET at Realtor.com ®

Location: Austin, TX

Avail, part of Realtor.com®, is a Chicago-based company empowering DIY landlords with tools like rental listings, tenant screening, leasing, rent collection, and maintenance tracking. Over 600,000 landlords and tenants nationwide use our platform. Join us in revolutionizing the rental property market, with 53 million potential users in the US. Our vision is to enhance living experiences, offering a dynamic startup-like culture within a stable billion-dollar company. Work alongside top talents, innovate, and enjoy the journey. If you thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment, join us!

What you'll do:

• Expected to be the champion of quality on the team and drive the quality mindset with coaching and mentoring.

• Act as a Quality coach and advocate, advising teams on quality standards and strategies

• Possess the ability to develop and maintain quality engineering-related tasks with the speed and proficiency of a similarly leveled software engineer, ensuring high standards of product quality and performance.

• Develop solutions that are of high quality, scalable, cloud-based, reliable, and reusable.

• Use quality best practices and programming skills to explore, drive, and implement test automation solutions and testing tools in order to maximize efficiency and test coverage.

• Work with the teams to create and maintain an automated ‘build and test’ verification process that includes an appropriate level of reporting and alerting for teams to be proactive.

• Work collaboratively in an Agile/Scrum team to plan and execute at high velocity, and across teams throughout the organization to reuse existing components and architect shared functionality.

• You will contribute to and lead process improvement initiatives to improve quality.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders including Product Owners – regarding user stories, acceptance criteria, definition of done, and other program-related decisions.

• You will act as a risk-driven quality assurance professional, escalating quality issues and concerns in a timely manner, providing suggestions for improvements and taking the lead on implementing those solutions.

How we work

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

What you'll bring:

• A driven software engineer in test that is motivated to build great products and a great codebase in a fast-paced environment

• Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations

• Strong communication skills with a growth and learning mindset

• Strong analytical thinking and ability to make data-driven decisions

• Passion for quality engineering and the latest technology standards

• 5+ years experience putting in practice sound software engineering fundamentals (frontend or backend).

• Track record of driving positive change, collaboratively implementing QE processes that have improved quality metrics.

• Ability to see the bigger picture, identify trends and root causes rather than fixing the symptoms

• Extensive experience with white box testing, web application performance, CWV metrics, and understanding of the inner workings of the system under test

• Experience with BDD/TDD and test automation at the unit, component and system test levels

• Experience with test automation tools (ex. Cypress, Selenium, Nightwatch, Playwright, Jest, Mocha, Jasmine) and JavaScript/TypeScript programming languages

• Experience with API, micro service testing, and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.

• Required: BS (4 years) or equivalent experience.

• Required: 5+ years of work experience.

• Required: Experience testing a SAAS product with a strong focus on quality throughout the entire software development cycle.

• Required: Knowledge of best practices and standards for web applications.

• Required: Proven ability to translate functional requirements and use cases into working test plans and test cases.

• Strength in one or more automation testing tools (e.g. Selenium, WebDriver, JMeter, SoapUI, Watir).

• Experience with GitHub or other source control systems.

• A keen understanding of business strategy, providing dynamic solutions using experience, data analyses, and organizational agility to guide your decision-making.

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. People are our foundation—the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com® , you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.