Software Engineer Test (SDET)

Overview

In this role, you will be responsible for functional, performance, and integration testing by creating automated test cases to ensure the world-class quality of Avalara products. You will also be responsible for supporting manual QA efforts within the team. You will be responsible for understanding requirements and designing test cases from the requirements. You will be working closely with product and developer teams on a day-to-day basis. You will be the voice of the customer within the organization, demanding zero defects, five nines reliability, and ease of use.

We have a startup culture focused on building great software and having the maximum impact on the world that we can and having fun while doing it. We'd love to talk to you about what we are up to.

Responsibilities

• Engage in continuous automated and manual testing activity throughout agile development iterations to ensure zero defects.
• Establish yourself as a quality automation expert in the team, advocating for complete code coverage of several large codebases in order to enable continuous delivery to customers and a 99.999 SLA. With every code commit/change the move for the above goals is incremented
• Participate in iteration planning, providing input on required testing tasks, processes, and associated effort for the selected user stories.
• Create and manage bug reports, ensuring they are clearly communicated to the team and addressed in a timely, thorough, and satisfactory manner.
• Provide feedback and recommendations on software usability and functionality.
• Investigate customer problems referred by technical support.
• Be a passionate voice of the customer within the development organization.
• Be a key participant in creating a Quality First and Zero Defects culture.
• Be open & able to adapt new technology frequently & fairly quickly and start producing results.
• Create UI and API automation suites with intuitive testing reports.
• Work with developers to understand the functionality and design test cases for the concerned module.
• Debugs software products through the use of systematic tests to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards for company products.
• Develops, modifies, and executes software test plans, automated scripts and programs for testing.
• Analyzes and writes test standards and procedures.
• Maintains documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software.
• Analyzes test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends corrective action.
  
  

Qualifications

• Computer science degree or an equivalent experience
• 5+ years of proven work experience in software quality assurance
• Excellent designing and programming skills.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with load and/or security testing is a plus
• Experience with AWS is a plus
  
  

About Avalara

About Avalara:

We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.

Equal Opportunities

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.