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

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Who We Are Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America. We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone. We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard. We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing. Role Summary 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. What You Will Do • 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 arenaflex/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. • 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 arenaflex/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. • Bonuses: • 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 What You'll Get • 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. At this time, Renew Home is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future immigration from the company, including training plans for foreign students. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Individuals seeking employment at Renew Home are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identification, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Apply tot his job

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