Software Test Eng, Sr Stf

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, ® 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 perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, ® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and consumer-obsessed Sr Staff Engineer in Test to join our RDC Next team. The charter for this team is to build and deliver innovative solutions across the real-estate ecosystem that deepen relationships with industry players, consumers, and brokers/agents. We are in the starting phase of the first product that will change the experience of agents and consumers through the home buying journey.

We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios. Beyond simple usage, this role requires the critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy. You should be comfortable integrating AI tooling into your daily workflow to eliminate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on high-impact architectural and strategic engineering challenges.

• Strategic Planning: Lead cross-functional planning of quality initiatives across web, mobile, backend, and end-to-end (E2E) testing for consumer and client applications, ensuring functionality, scalability, and continuous improvement of testing practices. Provide technical guidance to multiple teams, establishing frameworks and baseline testing standards while enabling engineers to contribute to ongoing automation efforts. Define and implement comprehensive test strategies, automation frameworks, and best practices for web, iOS, Android, backend services, and E2E workflows.
• Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on technical leadership in testing web, mobile, backend, and client and consumer applications across all teams, guiding them in implementing best practices in various facets of testing. Ensure products meet quality standards and drive improvements in automation coverage and efficiency organization-wide.
• Test Automation: Design, develop, and maintain robust, reusable, and scalable test automation solutions using frameworks such as Appium and Playwright, with a focus on establishing baseline frameworks for web, mobile, backend, and E2E testing. Partner with automation engineers and cross-functional teams to define scope and requirements, then empower engineers across the organization to contribute to and expand these frameworks.
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  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with development, product, and operations teams across business units to ensure seamless integration of quality practices, tools, and processes. Partner with developers in writing functional, integration, and E2E tests using tools and frameworks. Collaborate with development teams to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing and deployment.
• Training and Mentorship: Mentor and coach SDETs and QA engineers on test automation, test strategy, and debugging techniques.
• Planning and Communication: Manage changing and competing priorities with business partners and engineers to reprioritize delivery, track, communicate, and mitigate risks as appropriate; triage and analyze (RCA) issues to advocate for preventive and corrective measures across all teams.
• Technology Evaluation and Modernization: Evaluate and implement AI-driven testing tools and recommend and integrate emerging technologies into our quality tools and solutions, keeping the organization at the forefront of…