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Summary of Role: As a Test Automation Engineer at Anywhere Real Estate, you will design, develop, and implement digital solutions to ensure our products and processes meet the highest quality standards. You will identify shortfalls, develop corrective measures, and implement quality control systems. Your role will involve developing and delivering load and speed tests, writing automation scripts, and collaborating with engineers to support Anywhere Real Estate's mission to lead through industry change and transform our brokerage.

Anywhere Real Estate is committed to transforming the real estate industry through innovative technology and data-driven insights. We strive to create an inclusive and collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued. Our team is dedicated to leveraging advanced analytics to drive business success and deliver exceptional value to our clients. With a focus on integrating and digitizing our brokerage and title operations, we aim to create a frictionless transaction experience for agents and consumers. Our powerful people-first culture, guided by integrity, heart, and teamwork, fuels our success and helps us lead the world on a better journey home.

Key Duties:

• Analyze risk identifiers and develop documentation addressing software defect diagnostics and proposed solutions in areas such as database impacts, API, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability.

• Research new technologies to create and maintain automated testing suites.

• Support and mentor junior SQE engineers (distributed on/off-shore model) on technical approaches, best practices, and resolving complex challenges.

• Conduct QA reviews/inspections to find potential vulnerabilities or flaws and remediate them.

• Proactively identify testing obstacles/problems and suggest continuous improvements.

• Coordinate with SQE testers across multiple pods to ensure tools, methodologies, and procedures are followed for all SQE testing activities.

• Collaborate with other departments regarding the architecture and implementation of technical solutions to ensure compatibility with SQE Automation.

• Spearhead new technology research and lead new tool selection processes for SQE.

• Collaborate with other teams to expand our CI/CD automation footprint.

• Create and update testing documentation.

• Work with the QA Manager to oversee all aspects of quality engineering, including establishing metrics and applying industry best practices to ensure quality goals are met.

• Test existing system processes and provide recommendations for improvements.

• Ensure product quality throughout the development process.

• Record and play test automation scripts; edit existing scripts.

• Record, run, and version testing scripts with the ability to review and modify existing scripts or scenarios as the application changes.

• Provide guidance and support for manual testing applications where automated testing is not appropriate or possible.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• 8+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering testing web, mobile, and desktop apps.

• 5+ years of expertise in Automation Testing with significant demonstrable background in designing and building a framework from scratch.

• Expertise in scripting automation in C#, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, Katalon.

• Experience building automation for CI/CD.

• Experience working across multiple pods in an Agile development environment.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with a strong work ethic.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate ideas and/or explain complex technical issues.

• Detail-oriented with an innovative and collaborative mindset.

• Ability to solve technical automation framework issues.

• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, processes, and the agile software development life cycle.

• Proficient in GitLab.

Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (http://www.anywhere.re/)  (NYSE: HOUS) is on a mission to empower everyone’s next move. Home to some of the most recognized brands in real estate Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate (https://www.bhgre.com/) , Century 21® (https://www.century21.com/) , Coldwell Banker® (https://www.coldwellbanker.com/) , Coldwell Banker Commercial® (https://www.cbcworldwide.com/) , Corcoran® (https://www.corcoran.com/) , ERA® (https://www.era.com/) , and Sotheby's International Realty® (https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng)

The Anywhere portfolio includes franchise and brokerage operations as well as national title, settlement, and relocation companies and nationally scaled mortgage origination and underwriting joint ventures.  Supporting approximately 1.5 million home transactions in 2021, Anywhere is focused on simplifying, digitizing and integrating the real estate transaction for all consumers, no matter where they may be in their home buying and selling journey.  With innovative products and technology, Anywhere fuels the productivity of its approximately 196,200 independent sales agents in the US and approximately 136,400 independent sales agents in 118 other countries and territories.

At Anywhere Real Estate, diversity fuels success – for our company, for our employees, and for our industry. We strive to be a top destination for diverse talent, committed to creating a culture of belonging that empowers everyone’s next move. We pursue talent – strategic thinkers who are eager to always find a better way, relentlessly focus on talent, obsess about growth, and achieve exceptional results. We value diversity – respecting backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and beliefs. We develop our diverse talent base – through increasing representation in executive key leadership roles with actions including mentorship programs and partnerships with real estate associations that promote diversity and inclusion. Read more about our company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in our annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report (https://assets.website-files.com/633f08923c4c519693723aa5/63f7690462db639dcd8b18de_Anywhere%20CSR%20Report%202022.pdf) .

You’ll find our commitment to diversity reflected in our achievements:

• Recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies since 2011.

• Anywhere has also been designated a Great Place to Work since 2019.

• Recognized by Fortune as one of America’s Most Innovative Companies.

• Honored by Forbes as one of the World’s Best Employers for Diversity and Top Female Friendly Companies.

With a diverse employee population, we know we will succeed together and move real estate to what’s next. We hope you’ll join us.

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