Lead Software Quality Test Engineer (Playwright)

Location: 300 Riverside

Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes.

But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

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Summary -

This position is for a Lead Sr. Software Development Engineers in Test to develop automation strategies and testing solutions for the Dealer Inspire product.

This is a role will participate and lead SDETs responsible to evaluate software functionality and design and execute test cases that exercise code under development. This will include testing code as it is being developed, automating tests, and executing on a variety of tests to include: functional tests, integration tests, system-wide testing, regression tests, security tests, and performance tests as applicable for the changes at hand.

In the leadership portion, this person will mentor and lead other SDET(s) in the team, mentor and guide engineers who request support in building test automation, strategizing in how to continually build the breadth and depth of the software test automation function in DI for high efficiency and quality in our products.

Additional Locations: Chicago, IL