What You'll Do Avalara is looking for a Software Development Engineer Test to guide and oversee exciting projects across our VAT Platform suite of products and services. We are growing and evolving our products and are looking for motivated people to join us on this journey. A successful candidate will be a well-rounded, experienced technical lead with experience leading and enabling teams in the design, build and testing of enterprise level software solutions. What will you do: Be a key participant in creating a Quality First culture. Promote Shift-Left testing Engage in continuous testing activity throughout agile development iterations to ensure zero defects Develop and execute automated tests – Functional, Regression, Smoke and Load/Performance tests Participate in iteration planning, providing input on required test tasks, process, and associated effort for the selected user stories Drive improvement of CI/CD processes, including automated test development and strategy Monitor, manage and maintain 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 organisation and help propagate industry best practices in QA Be collaborative and work to advance the business, product and team What You'll Need to be Successful Experience General 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 Technical Demonstrable experience of having worked with and built or extended frameworks for automated testing Experience developing automated tests for web applications Experience using various tools such as Nightwatch/Selenium WebDriver/BrowserStack, Specflow/Cucumber/Postman and JMeter/Taurus Experience in performance, load and reliability engineering Experience in analysing and troubleshooting complex issues and critical production problems Other Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners Experience ensuring that code meets all functionality and acceptance criteria Demonstrable high standards of excellence Track record of a high level of technical judgement, ownership, and execution Proven ability to make things happen and meet commitments Experience in similar business domain or experience in building and articulating business domain knowledge About the Team Qualifications 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 & development and common design patterns Strong knowledge of .NET framework Strong knowledge of DevOps (AWS, CICD, TF, K8) Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server/any other RDBMS 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.