Software Test Eng, Sr - Avail

News Corp; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Realtor.com is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to own automated coverage across Avail, its rental platform. You will coach developers, build test tooling, and contribute to CI/CD quality gates across web, API, and mobile.

You will work with TS/JS, Playwright, Python, GraphQL, and mobile testing tools to ensure end-to-end quality for listings, applications, leases, payments, and property maintenance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software/test engineering focusing on quality engineering enablement and automation.
• Strong TS/JS automation experience and hands-on Playwright testing.
• Experience with API/GraphQL testing and frontend integration testing.

Responsibilities

• Set the test strategy across the full rental lifecycle, from listings to maintenance.
• Build and maintain automated tests for web, API, and mobile.
• Lead hands-on tests for services, APIs, and workflows; own mobile automation coverage.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript automation

Playwright

API testing

GraphQL testing

CI/CD tooling

Mobile automation

Ruby/Rails testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Playwright

Vitest

Appium

Detox

Maestro

GraphQL

Job description

Software Test Eng, Sr - Avail

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Category: Technology

Job ID: 3375

Description

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® makes a significant impact on the real estate industry and helps consumers navigate home buying and renting with an easy-to-use, clear experience. Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

About the Role

Avail is Realtor.com's rental platform, covering listings, applications, leases, rent payments, and property maintenance. As a Senior Software Test Engineer on the Avail team at Realtor.com (RDC), you are a key technical contributor driving Quality Engineering enablement across our full rental-lifecycle platform. Rather than focusing on manual QA, you will empower and coach developers to own automated coverage while building developer enablement tooling, CI/CD quality gates, and automated test frameworks across web, API, and mobile experiences. You own test strategy and automation for the end-to-end Avail ecosystem: attracting renters through listing syndication, converting leads through application screening, creating and executing lease agreements, processing rent payments and financial workflows, and supporting ongoing property management tasks. You work hands-on in code, embed quality into delivery processes, and help shift the organization from manual regression triage toward developer-owned quality enablement.

Top Reasons to Apply

• Own test strategy and end-to-end automation for Avail's complete rental lifecycle, from listings and lead ingestion to lease execution, payment collection, and property maintenance, driving platform stability across web and mobile surfaces.

• Work hands-on with modern, multi-surface stacks including TypeScript/NestJS, Python, GraphQL, Kafka, Temporal, Playwright, Vitest, and React Native/Maestro for mobile testing.

• Address critical quality challenges in stateful workflows, financial/identity risk, third-party integration reliability, and platform modernization while building visibility tooling like the E2E Lead Tracing Control Panel.

What You'll Do

• Strategy

• Set the test strategy for Avail across the full rental lifecycle, from listings to property maintenance. Decide what needs unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, and mobile tests, and explain why.

• Review designs early for testability: clear API contracts, safe retries, and logs that show what failed.

• Work with product and engineering to pick quality work that reduces production escalations as Avail expands to new markets.

• Automation

• Build and maintain automated tests for web, API, and mobile using TypeScript (Playwright, Vitest), Python (pytest), and React Native tools (Maestro, Appium, or Detox).

• Lead hands-on tests for TypeScript/NestJS services, GraphQL APIs, and Kafka and Temporal workflows.

• Own mobile automation coverage for the Avail apps, including payments, messaging, and maintenance intake.

• Keep CI/CD quality gates healthy in CircleCI and GitHub Actions, including parallelization and triage of failing checks.

• Production

• Send test coverage and quality signals to New Relic and OpenSearch so escalation patterns show up early.

• Join production triage and incident reviews for Avail. Turn findings into test changes that prevent repeat escalations.

• Coaching

• Pair with developers to write functional, integration, and contract tests in their service codebases.

• Mentor QE engineers and software engineers on service-level test design, contract testing, and observability-driven validation.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in software and test engineering, with a focus on Quality Engineering enablement, developer tooling, and test automation rather than manual QA.

• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript automation experience.

• Hands-on experience with Playwright for browser and critical-path testing.

• Proficiency in API and GraphQL testing, along with frontend integration testing using Apollo.

• Experience with unit and component testing frameworks, ideally Vitest and Storybook.

• Ability to read and test Ruby/Rails systems; hands-on RSpec experience is valuable.

• Proven experience integrating CI/CD quality gates, managing GitHub and CircleCI workflows, and implementing comprehensive test reporting.

• Demonstrated expertise in risk-based testing across payments, authentication, messaging, and third-party integrations.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Hands-on mobile automation testing experience with React Native, Expo, Maestro, Detox, or Appium across iOS and Android builds.

Strong Differentiators

• Experience moving engineering teams from manual regression testing toward developer-owned automated coverage.

• Track record of building reusable test fixtures, harnesses, data generators, and developer enablement tooling.

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling, including AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, or Argo CD.

• Expertise in accessibility, cross-browser validation, performance, and Core Web Vitals testing.

How We Work

• We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four 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.

How We Reward You

• Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage

• Family forming benefits

• 13 Paid Holidays

• Flexible Time Off

• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off

• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match

• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs

• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions

• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program

• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

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. 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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.