Software Test Engineer - Avail

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.

Software Engineer in Test 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!

The Role:

We have an exciting and unique opportunity for a skilled, highly motivated, and self-driven Software Test Engineer. Our ideal candidates are analytical with a keen eye for detail and obsession over quality. Top candidates will have experience testing consumer SaaS applications in an Agile environment using continuous integration, deployment, testing, and delivery strategies. This role will be responsible for logging and monitoring errors, and testing performance and load-time.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to software quality and timely release of industry leading software for the real-estate industry.
• Contribute to designing and developing test automation for different types of testing including E2E, UI, API, integration, performance and more.
• Develop and execute test plans and manual test cases
• Understand system requirements and validate whether the application works as per requirements.
• Efficiently validate backend systems, including but not limited to APIs, analytics, etc.
• Involved in test case execution, functional testing, regression testing and Usability testing
• Report bugs by using the bug tracking tool and tracked issue records
• Expected to be the champion of quality on the team and drive the quality mindset with coaching and mentoring.
• Contribute to and lead process improvement initiatives to improve quality.
• Act as the customer to the development team and contribute with fresh ideas and user centric views.
• Collaborate with a team comprising product managers, developers and other QEs.
• Identify and communicate risks about our releases.
• Look beyond your specific area of responsibility and ensure our solutions deliver value to our customers.
• Experience Developing/maintaining Automation Test architecture, framework and automation tests would be a plus

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:

• Minimum 3 years experience in testing
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
• Understanding of testing strategies
• Expertise in creating test plans and writing test cases
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies.
• Strong interest and focus on the user experience and quality
• Good understanding of CI/CD process and quality checks in the workflow
• Strength in one or more automation testing tools (e.g. Selenium, WebDriver, JMeter, SoapUI, Watir)
• Proven ability to translate functional requirements and use cases into working test plans and test cases
• Track record of driving positive change, collaboratively implementing QE processes that have improved quality metrics
• Experience testing a SAAS product with a strong focus on quality throughout the entire software development cycle
• Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to make data-driven decisions
• Passion for quality engineering and the latest technology standards
• Strong communication skills with a growth and learning mindset
• Strong empathy for our customers and a passion for exceeding their expectations, always!

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.comwill provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.