Software Development Engineer Testing

What You ll DoAvalara is looking for a Senior SDET to work on our VAT Platform suite of products and services We are growing and evolving our product and looking for motivated people to join us on this journey A successful you are a well-rounded software engineer with experience delivering software at scale in an agile environment have the ability to work under pressure and excel in a fast paced environment We build software with five nines of reliability Software which is part of a sales checkout process so it s got to be fast and accurate That requires systems with massive scale redundancy and functional excellence It also requires top-notch APIs and a SOA design for maintainability and extensibility In this role you will be responsible for functional performance integration reliability and subsequent automation testing to ensure world class quality of Avalara products You will be the voice of the customer within the organization demanding zero defects five nines of reliability and ease of use You will also serve as a champion for software quality and QA best practices Be an important participant in creating a Quality First culture Promote Shift-Left testing Participate in continuous testing activity throughout agile development iterations to ensure zero defects Develop automated tests - Functional Regression Smoke and Load Performance tests Participate in iteration planning contributing to required test tasks process and associated effort for the selected user stories Improve of CI CD processes including automated test development and strategy Monitor manage test runs and provide clear reporting of test results and metrics Mentor others on best practices for test automation performance testing CI CD and QA processes Participate in QA collaborations across the wider organisation and help propagate industry best practices in QA Be collaborative and promote the business product and team What You ll Need to be SuccessfulQualifications Bachelor s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent Experience with test methodologies and software engineering throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle Excellent QA skills planning exploratory testing defect reporting troubleshooting and debugging Experience with object-oriented design development and common design patterns Strong knowledge of NET framework Strong knowledge of DevOps AWS CICD TF K8 Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server any other RDBMS ExperienceGeneral 4 years experience in software testing or 3 years experience with a master s level degree Understanding of application security concepts Experience working within dispersed non co-located teams Experience in agile methodologies and processes Experience working with JIRA Technical Demonstrable experience of having worked with and built or extended frameworks for automated testing Experience developing automated tests for web applications Experience using various tools such as Nightwatch Selenium WebDriver BrowserStack Specflow Cucumber Postman and JMeter Taurus Experience in performance load and reliability engineering Experience in analysing and troubleshooting complex issues and critical production problems How We ll Take Care of YouTotal RewardsIn addition to a great compensation package paid time off and paid parental leave many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses Health Wellness Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical life and disability insurance Inclusive culture and diversity Avalara strongly supports diversity equity and inclusion and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship Flexible hybrid working We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees Learn more about our benefits by region here About AvalaraWere Avalara Were defining the relationship between tax and tech Weve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year Last year we became a billion-dollar business and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - theres nearly 5 000 of us now Our growth is real and were not slowing down - not until weve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world Were bright innovative and disruptive like the orange we love to wear It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset It shows off the culture weve designed that empowers our people to win Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them Weve been different from day one Join us and your career will be too EEO StatementWere an Equal Opportunity Employer Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company we dont want people to fit into our culture but to enrich it All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color creed religion age gender national orientation disability sexual orientation US Veteran status or any other factor protected by law If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please let us know