Senior Software Engineer, Test and Automation (Remote, US)

Renew Home

1h • Remote

About The Position

Renew Home is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test and Automation to join our team, and play a key role in establishing robust automation testing frameworks and culture within our organization.
You will be responsible for driving test automation strategies, implementing automation frameworks and effective test plans for a product that dispatches energy shift signals to millions of households. You will also be responsible for supporting our continuous integration processes, and fast release cycle.
Our team is mission driven, and passionate about delivering high-quality software products and team efficiency. Your expertise will provide the team with the right automation to evaluate the quality of the product in an agile product development cycle.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience testing web-based applications.
• Strong software engineering background with proficiency in SQL and one or more of: Python, Java, PHP, or Ruby.
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks across frontend, backend, and databases.
• Experience with web automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or BrowserStack.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (e.g., GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and independent execution skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with our tech stack(Python and React running on Lambdas, PostgreSQL, S3 in AWS, Pub/Sub in GCP, Nx)
• Experience with mobile testing
• Experience leveraging generative AI tools to accelerate test creation, maintenance, and coverage analysis

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own scalable test automation frameworks for integration and end-to-end testing of distributed systems.
• Expand automated test coverage across higher levels of the test pyramid.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with integrated testing and quality gates.
• Define and promote best practices for test tooling, processes, and workflows.
• Partner with software engineers to develop and maintain automated tests.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define test cases and ensure test environments support development needs.
• Develop and maintain test plans, schedules, documentation, and quality metrics.
• Analyze production issues and drive improvements to test coverage and system reliability.
• Advocate for automated testing and continuous quality improvement across the organization.

Benefits

• A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $165k - $205k. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay range.
• Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
• Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
• Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.
• Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees