Software Development Engineer in Test III

Since 2012, we've grown to become one of the leading single-family rental companies and homebuilders in the country, recently recognized as a top employer by Fortune and Great Place To Work®.  At AMH, our goal is to simplify the experience of leasing a home through professional management and maintenance support, so our residents can focus on what really matters to them, wherever they are in life. 

The Software Development Engineer in Test III (SDET III) is responsible for leading work for the testing phase of the change or project deployment. Maintaining product consistency throughout development and product cycle, including the design, define and build phases through quality checkpoints and testing, ensuring quality assurance metrics of the products. This position is responsible for enhancing and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline. The SDET III collaborates with IT teams to establish, uphold high levels of quality, while supporting application core base functionality to evaluate and maintain system integrity in conjunction with best practices and day-to-day business processes and manages difficult to highly complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Design test plans, test cases, and write code to ensure that products adhere to quality standards for both manual and automated testing.
• Creates and maintains process documentation, procedures, and policies. Keeps documentation up-to-date and works with IT teams and assigned stakeholders to deliver testing outcomes.
• Creates the base automated test flows and architecture. Writes and commits code and sets the technical standards for the department.
• Identify procedures and scenarios for quality control of projects and processes.
• Performs, reviews, and informs engineering of defects and errors with supporting evidence.
• Collaborates and communicates with IT teams to understand project objectives, gather testing and automation requirements, design tests (manual and automated), troubleshoot issues, and implements test solutions.
• Provides solution guidance for different scenarios on outages and various problems, incidents and/or opportunities that may be presented to the team.
• Facilitates quality assurance portion of the change management processes, including the development and execution of test scripts, documentations, demos, and trainings.
• Ensure final product satisfies the product requirements and meet end-user-expectations. Identifies areas of improvement and enhance the product efficiencies.
• Stays current with market and for similar products to compare results.
• Mentor and drive the team maturity forward with solid initiatives and keeping the test tech stack updated and modernized.
• May lead or provide oversite as required in order to prioritize and deliver the highest quality assurance product standards.
  
  

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, and/or related field preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in Quality Assurance, Business Process/Service Quality and/or related field required.
• Minimum of seven (7) years’ experience as an SDET, developer or automation engineer required.
• Advanced Knowledge of IT quality assurance methodologies, tools, business processes and development.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in business and technical analysis and functional and non-functional requirements.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft and Oracle based applications both out of box and custom development.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with quality assurance applications (bug tracking and test case management).
• Advanced knowledge of distributed web-based testing tools like Browserstack or Sauce Labs.
• Knowledge of Jira and additional Atlassian applications are nice to have. Proven test architecture skills.
• Must have built test harnesses and frameworks for web based, API based applications and mobile applications.
• Must be able to mentor and skill up the team.
• Advanced hands-on knowledge of best practices and configuring/coding CI/CD pipelines (Infrastructure as code). Additional DevOps skills are essential (Azure preferred).
• Proven experience creating automation frameworks and tools to support test automation and reporting.
• Advanced knowledge of load/performance testing and security testing (dev sec ops).
• May work evenings and/or weekends.
• May require occasional travel approximately up to 10%.
  
  

Compensation

The anticipated pay range/scale for this position is $105,322.00 to $131,652.00 Annually. Actual starting base pay within this range will depend on factors including geographic location, education, training, skills, and relevant experience.

Additional Compensation

This position is eligible to receive a discretionary annual bonus.

Perks and Benefits

Employees have the opportunity to participate in medical, dental and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts and/or health savings accounts; dependent savings accounts; 401(k) with company matching contributions; employee stock purchase plan; and a tuition reimbursement program. The Company provides 9 paid holidays per year, and, upon hire, new employees will accrue paid time off (PTO) at a rate of 0.0577 hours of PTO per hour worked, up to a maximum of 120 hours per year.

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