Software Test Eng, Sr - Avail

Software Test Eng, Sr - Avail

Location:

Austin, TX, United States

Category:
Technology

Job

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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.

Avail is 's rental platform, covering listings, applications, leases, rent payments, and property maintenance. As a Senior Software Test Engineer on the Avail team at  (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.

• 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 Type Script/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.

• 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 Type Script (Playwright, Vitest), Python (pytest), and React Native tools (Maestro, Appium, or Detox).

• Lead hands-on tests for Type Script/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 Git Hub Actions, including parallelization and triage of failing checks.

• Production

• Send test coverage and quality signals to New Relic and Open Search 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.

• 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 Type Script/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 Git Hub and CircleCI workflows, and implementing…