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Realtor.com · 17 hours ago

Software Test Eng, Sr

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Realtor.com is a leading online real estate platform that connects buyers, sellers, and renters with insights and guidance to find their perfect home. The company is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to contribute to the quality of distributed services that power lead ingestion, vetting, allocation, and delivery, while also mentoring engineers in modern testing practices.

PropTechReal EstateRental Property

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Contribute to planning quality initiatives for lead-lifecycle services (ingestion, enrichment, vetting, allocation/monetization, delivery) and concierge journeys, with a focus on correctness, resilience, and SLAs such as time‑to‑first‑contact and connection quality

Help define and maintain a layered test strategy (unit, integration/service, contract, end-to-end, performance) for your squad within Lead Services and Concierge, grounded in business risk and deployment expectations

Surface and refine systemic quality risks in lead and concierge flows (e.g., routing accuracy, duplicate handling, idempotency, data consistency, retries) and translate them into actionable test cases and automation work

Drive hands-on testing for backend services, REST/GraphQL APIs, and event-driven workflows (e.g., Kafka, queues, batch jobs), plus integrations with telephony/contact-center and CRM systems that power concierge experiences

Advocate for testability in designs: schemas, contracts, observability (logs/metrics/traces, call outcomes, funnel metrics), and deployment patterns so failures are detectable and diagnosable

Partner with engineers to ensure changes to contracts, schemas, routing logic, and concierge workflows are validated at the service and contract levels, not just through UI tests

Design, build, and maintain robust, reusable automation for API, service, contract, and data testing in Python, Java (and/or TypeScript/Node), using frameworks such as pytest, TestNG/JUnit, REST Assured, and Pact (or similar)

Implement utilities that validate lifecycle objects, payload schemas, routing decisions, monetization rules, and concierge contact/attempt logic across services and data stores

Apply performance and load-testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, k6) to your squad's critical paths (e.g., high‑throughput allocation, concierge dialing/queueing, delivery fan‑out) and integrate them into CI/CD and monitoring, with guidance from Staff/Principal engineers

Work closely with development, product, data, and concierge operations/call-center partners to embed practical quality checks and signals into everyday delivery

Pair with developers to write and maintain functional, integration, and contract tests as part of service and workflow codebases

Collaborate with platform and release teams to keep automated checks healthy in CI/CD (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub Actions), and help tune quality gates for APIs, contracts, and your team's critical workflows

Mentor SDETs and software engineers on service‑level test design, contract testing, debugging distributed systems, and observability‑driven validation, primarily within your team or adjacent teams

Share paved‑path patterns, utilities, and examples that help engineers add the right kinds of tests and keep them maintainable

Help balance changing priorities with your product and engineering partners, clearly articulating quality and risk trade-offs for your area

Participate in incident reviews for lead and concierge flows, helping identify test gaps, environment issues, and data problems, and turning findings into test improvements

Communicate test coverage, gaps, and risks in clear, concise language tailored to engineers, product managers, and operations partners

Pilot and provide feedback on AI‑assisted and ML‑driven testing capabilities (e.g., test authoring support, log/trace and call‑log triage, flakiness detection) for your team's workflows

Contribute to evaluating and adopting tooling for contract testing, data validation, telephony simulation, and environment management that fits RDC's paved paths and standards

Participate fully in your squad's Agile/Scrum processes, ensuring service and concierge quality signals are included in refinement, planning, and the definition of done

Help your team ship faster and safer by shifting validation earlier, automating critical checks, and making quality metrics part of day‑to‑day decision making

Qualification

Test automationAPI testingPerformance testingBackend servicesPythonJavaCI/CD integrationMicroservices architectureDebugging skillsAgile practicesMentorshipCollaborationCommunication

Required

5+ years of experience in software and/or test engineering, with substantial hands-on work in backend services, APIs, and/or event‑driven systems

2+ years owning or leading test design and automation for a service, product area, or team-level domain

Proven experience designing and implementing test strategies for services in distributed or microservices architectures (REST/GraphQL APIs, streams/queues, batch jobs, or data pipelines)

Strong debugging skills for complex integrated environments, using logs, metrics, and traces (e.g., Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, or similar) to isolate and explain issues

Proficiency in at least one major language in our ecosystem (e.g., Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript/Node) and experience building reusable test utilities, fixtures, and helpers for service and data validation

Hands-on experience with API and service‑level testing frameworks (e.g., pytest + requests, REST Assured, Postman/Newman, TestNG/JUnit) and familiarity with contract testing concepts/tools (e.g., Pact, schema validation for REST/GraphQL or events)

Experience designing or running performance and load tests for services using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or k6, or a strong interest and foundational knowledge to ramp quickly

Practical experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins), including test suites configuration, basic parallelization, and triage of failing checks

Familiarity with cloud-native and containerized environments (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) and how they impact test data, environments, and dependencies

Demonstrated ability to reduce flakiness and improve test signal quality for your team, turning manual checks into reliable automation

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

Preferred

Experience with agentic AI tooling or AI/ML‑driven testing solutions (test generation, triage assistance, anomaly detection) is a plus

Experience with or interest in concierge, contact‑center, or inside‑sales systems (dialers, telephony platforms, CRM integrations, call/SMS workflows) is a plus

Understanding of data quality and schema evolution across service boundaries; experience validating domain models and schemas for transactional or lifecycle flows (e.g., leads, orders, subscriptions) is a plus

Company

Realtor.com

Glassdoor3.4

Realtor.com is an online platform that allows users to search for real estate property records, houses, condos and lands. It is a sub-organization of Move.

Founded in 1996

Santa Clara, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.realtor.com/

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