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 to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.
Role Summary
Our company 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, 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 robust test automation frameworks for integration and end-to-end testing of distributed systems aligned with project goals.
- Identify and implement technical best practices for tools, processes, and work plans to support the continuous integration and delivery of our applications.
- Guide software developers in creating and maintaining automated tests using various tools and programming languages.
- Collaborate with software engineers, product owners, and the cross-functional team to capture and understand test cases, ensuring testing infrastructure supports developing requirements.
- Leverage the frameworks to expand automated test coverage at higher levels of the test pyramid.
- Collaborate with the infrastructure team to create and deploy test environments.
- Create and maintain documentation of processes, environments, and tests.
- Develop and operationalize test plans, develop test schedules.
- Analyze production failures and recommend improvements to the test suite and codebase.
- Participate in product release and quality reviews with a cross functional team.
- Advocate for automated testing throughout the stack and organization
- Hands-on experience with multiple test automation tools and frameworks for frontend, backend, and database applications. Demonstrated ability to integrate these frameworks and tools in the software development workflow.
- Solid software engineering experience with proficiency in SQL databases and one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.
- Experience with web automation frameworks such as Selenium or BrowserStack
- Experience in the software development lifecycle, focusing on software quality.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools such as Github Actions, or equivalent.
- Excellent problem solving, analytical, and technical troubleshooting skills.
- Demonstrated ability to independently define and execute projects
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- 5+ years of experience in testing web-based applications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Bonuses
- Experience with our tech stack(Python and React running on Lambdas, PostgreSQL, S3 in AWS, Pub/Sub in GCP)
- Experience with mobile testing
What You'll Get
- A competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $150k - $200k.
- Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
- Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include unlimited vacation (which our C-level team actively encourages everyone to take!), parental leave, and a corporate values of working sustainably and putting families first.
- Competitive benefits package that includes a full suite of wellness benefits and stock options.
- 401(k) matching.
- 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.
Not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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.
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What We Do
Partnering across the energy landscape to make it easy for customers to save energy and money at home, transforming how we power the world
