Software Development Engineer in Test

Since 2012, we've grown to become one of the leading single-family rental companies and homebuilders in the country, recently recognized as a top employer by Fortune and Great Place To Work®. At AMH, our goal is to simplify the experience of leasing a home through professional management and maintenance support, so our residents can focus on what really matters to them, wherever they are in life.

The SDET I is responsible for reviewing assigned work during the testing phase of change or project deployment. Maintaining product consistency throughout development and product cycle, from design to build phases, through quality checkpoints and testing, ensuring quality assurance metrics of the products. The SDET I collaborates with various IT teams to establish and uphold high levels of quality, supporting application core base functionality to evaluate and maintain system integrity and apply best practices, day-to-day business processes, and support solutions for moderately complex problems.

• Design test plans, test cases, and write code to ensure that products adhere to quality standards for both manual and automated testing.
• Creates and maintains process documentation, procedures, and policies. Keeps documentation up-to-date and works with IT teams and assigned stakeholders to deliver testing outcomes.
• Collaborates and communicates with IT teams to understand project objectives, gather testing and automation requirements, design tests (manual and automated), troubleshoot issues, and implements test solutions.
• Provides solution guidance for different scenarios on outages and various problems, incidents and/or opportunities that may be presented to the team.
• Identify procedures and scenarios for quality control of projects and processes.
• Performs reviews and informs the development teams of defects and errors with supporting evidence.
• Facilitates quality assurance portion of the change management processes, including the development and execution of test scripts, documentations, demos, and trainings.
• Ensure the final product satisfies the product requirements and meets end-user expectations. Identifies areas of improvement and enhances product efficiency.
• Stays current with market and similar products to compare results.

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, and/or related field preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in Quality Assurance, Business Process/Service Quality and/or related field required.
• Minimum of two (2) years’ experience as an SDET, developer or automation engineer required.
• Knowledge of IT quality assurance methodologies, tools, business processes and development.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in business and technical analysis and functional and non-functional requirements.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with quality assurance applications (bug tracking and test case management).
• Excellent verbal and written communication, planning, analysis and organizing skills.
• Proven experience creating automation frameworks and tools to support test automation and reporting.
• Strong business analysis skills.

The anticipated pay range/scale for this position is commensurate with experience. Actual starting base pay within this range will depend on factors including geographic location, education, training, skills, and relevant experience.

This position is eligible to receive a discretionary annual bonus.

Employees have the opportunity to participate in medical, dental and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts and/or health savings accounts; dependent savings accounts; 401(k) with company matching contributions; employee stock purchase plan; and a tuition reimbursement program. The Company provides 9 paid holidays per year, and, upon hire, new employees will accrue paid time off (PTO) at a rate of 0.0577 hours of PTO per hour worked, up to a maximum of 120 hours per year.

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