The Home Depot is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to independently develop and redesign products to meet customer and associate needs. The role involves collaborating with a dynamic team, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring software quality through various testing methodologies.
Responsibilities:
- Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
- Learns through successful and failed experiments when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
- Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
- Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions
Requirements:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
- 3 years of relevant work experience in software development or quality engineering
- Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks
- Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java) and scripting languages like Python
- Familiarity with relational or NoSQL database technologies and cloud computing techniques
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and modern software design patterns
- Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks for web and backend systems using tools like Selenium, Playwright, or similar
- Build and own front-end (UI) automation validating functionality, cross-browser compatibility, and user experience
- Develop API and service-level automated tests using Postman, REST Assured, SoapUI, or equivalent frameworks
- Write clean, maintainable automation code applying object-oriented design and test patterns
- Integrate automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines
- Design and execute performance, load, and stress tests using JMeter, Gatling, NeoLoad, or LoadRunner
- Experience with security frameworks for user and service authorization/authentication
- Ability to create and execute unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests
- Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills for test failures and production issues
- Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Partner closely with software engineers and product teams to drive testability, quality standards, and early defect prevention
- Leverage AI-assisted testing tools and techniques to improve test coverage and optimize regression suites
- Track and report quality metrics using Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar test management tools
- The knowledge, skills, and abilities are typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
- 2–4 years of relevant work experience in software development or quality engineering
- No additional education
- No additional years of experience
- None