Senior Engineer, Test and Automation; Remote

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.

Renew Home 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 design and maintain the pipelines, quality gates, and automated checks that let our teams ship confidently and frequently across a 50+ service Nx monorepo. Beyond pipelines, you will build and expand automation frameworks that interact with thermostats, EVs and batteries, define testing standards, and embed a quality-first culture across a mission‑driven engineering organization.

• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines — designing quality gates, test stages, deployment checks, and failure alerting across Git Hub Actions workflows in a large Nx monorepo.
• Define and enforce pipeline standards: what runs on every PR, what gates a merge, what gates a deploy, and how test results are surfaced to engineers.
• Design and implement scalable test automation frameworks for integration and end‑to‑end testing of distributed systems spanning Python/FastAPI backends, React/Remix frontends, Postgre
  
  SQL, and event‑driven infrastructure on AWS and GCP.
• Expand automated test coverage across the test pyramid — with particular focus on integration and E2E layers that are hardest to maintain at speed.
• Partner with software engineers to instrument their services with automated tests and wire those tests into CI.
• Analyze flaky tests, slow pipelines, and production incidents to drive continuous improvement in test coverage, pipeline reliability, and release confidence.
• Develop and maintain test plans, quality metrics, and documentation that keep teams aligned on coverage expectations.
• Advocate for automated testing and continuous quality improvement across the organization.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and ensure strong operational standards.

• 5+ years of experience testing web‑based applications in a professional engineering environment.
• Demonstrated hands‑on ownership of CI/CD pipelines — not just using them, but designing, maintaining, and improving them (Git Hub Actions strongly preferred).
• Strong software engineering background with proficiency in Python and SQL; comfort reading and contributing to Type Script/React codebases.
• Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks across frontend, backend, and database layers.
• Experience with web automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or Browser Stack.
• Deep understanding of test pyramid strategy and how to apply it in a fast‑moving release cycle.
• Strong problem‑solving, communication, and independent execution skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Bonuses:
  • Fluency with AI‑assisted development tools with an eye for secure, scalable and robust services. You use coding agents, LLM‑driven code review, and AI‑powered debugging to move faster and raise the quality bar, and you have a point of view on where they help and where they don
  • Experience with our stack:
    Python, FastAPI, React, Remix, Postgre
    
    SQL, Nx, AWS (Lambda, S3, Aurora), GCP Pub/Sub, Prefect, dbt.
  • Familiarity with Nx's affected‑graph model and how to scope CI runs efficiently in a large monorepo.
  • Experience with Playwright's component and E2E testing in a Remix or React application.
  • Experience with pytest, pytest‑asyncio, and database fixture patterns (no mocking — real DB).
  • Experience with mobile testing.

• A full‑time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $160k - $200k. We use market data and consider your job family, background,…