Software Development Engineer Test (SDET)

What You'll Do

Avalara is looking for a Senior SDET to work on our VAT Platform suite of products and services. We are growing and evolving our product and looking for motivated people to join us on this journey. A successful you are a well-rounded software engineer with experience delivering software at scale in an Agile environment, and excel.

It also requires top-notch APIs and a SOA design for maintainability and extensibility. You will be responsible for functional, performance, integration, reliability and subsequent automation testing to ensure world class quality of Avalara products. You will be the voice of the customer within the organization, demanding zero defects, five nines of reliability and ease of use. You will also serve as a promoter for software quality and QA best practices.

You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager.

This position is open to remote candidates.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Be an important participant in creating a Quality First culture. Promote Shift-Left testing
• Participate in continuous testing activity throughout Agile development iterations to ensure zero defects
• Develop automated tests – Functional, Regression, Smoke and Load/Performance tests
• Participate in iteration planning, contributing to required test tasks, process, and associated effort for the selected user stories
• Improve of CI/CD processes, including automated test development and strategy
• Manage test runs and provide clear reporting of test results and metrics
• Mentor others on best practices for test automation, performance testing, CI/CD and QA processes
• Participate in QA collaborations across the wider organization and help propagate industry best practices in QA
• Be collaborative and promote the business, product and team

About The Team

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• Experience with test methodologies and software engineering throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Excellent QA skills: planning, exploratory testing, defect reporting, troubleshooting and debugging
• Experience with object-oriented design and common design patterns
• Knowledge of .NET framework
• Knowledge of DevOps (AWS, CICD, TF, and K8)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server/any other RDBMS
• 8+ years experience in software testing or 6+ years experience with a master's level degree
• Understanding of application security concepts
• Experience working within dispersed non co-located teams
• Experience in agile methodologies and processes
• Experience working with JIRA
• Experience developing automated tests for web applications like GIT
• Experience using multiple tools such as Night watch/Selenium WebDriver/Browser Stack, Spec flow/Cucumber/Postman and JMeter/Taurus
• Experience in performance, load and reliability engineering
• Experience analysing and troubleshooting complex issues and critical production problems
• Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners
• Experience writing clean, concise code with comments
• High standards of excellence
• Experience a high level of technical judgement, ownership, and execution
• Ability and meet commitments

Read more about Avalara's values and what will make you a successful Avalarian here: https://www.avalara.com/us/en/about/success-traits.html

How We’ll Take Care Of You

Total Rewards

In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.

Health & Wellness

Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.

Inclusive culture and diversity

Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

Flexible hybrid working

We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/

About Avalara

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.

Last year, we became a billion-dollar business_,_ and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

EEO Statement

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.