Middle QA Engineer
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Welcome to HomeBuddy, where making a home awesome is like seeing a vision come to life! We are on a mission to create a friendly and trusted platform to connect homeowners with the right contractors across the US.
What started as a small idea has become a fast-growing home improvement platform focusing on lead quality and long-term partnerships based on trust and mutual success. We are a growth-oriented company with a long-term outlook - our platform consistently and positively evolves based on data insights and the most up-to-date tools.
This job is for you if
- You would like to work in a positive atmosphere where teamwork and trust in your colleagues are primary values.
- You succeed in an environment that values initiative and sharing feedback and where your suggestions and efforts are recognized and appreciated.
- You are used to taking responsibility for solving difficult tasks and are directly involved in how your efforts impact the final result.
- You enjoy performing deep manual and exploratory testing for new features while simultaneously building the automation that protects them in the long run.
- You thrive on being the "quality gatekeeper" for a feature - from analyzing requirements and finding edge cases manually to debugging automated test failures in the pipeline.
- You want to take ownership of the end-to-end testing process, ensuring that both manual checks and automated scripts provide a complete picture of product health.
This role is full-time and offers home working flexibility.
Your future tasks will include
- Performing comprehensive manual and exploratory testing for new features to ensure they meet requirements and provide a great user experience.
- Developing and maintaining automated test scripts (UI and API) within the existing automation framework.
- Creating and executing test cases, plan test runs that combine manual scenarios with automated checks for full coverage.
- Collaborating with developers to identify testing requirements early and ensure high-quality product delivery.
- Monitoring and analyzing automated test results in the CI/CD pipeline, taking ownership of debugging failures and reporting defects.
- Contributing to the improvement of QA documentation, including test cases, bug reports, and internal testing instructions.
- Actively participating in team processes (PBRs, daily meeting, retrospective) to provide testing input, testing estimates and advocate for quality best practices.
You’re going to need this to be successful in this role
- Strong expertise in manual testing methodologies, including test design, requirement analysis, and exploratory testing techniques.
- Proficiency in UI testing, using both automated tools and manual clients.
- Strong analytical skills with a detail-oriented mindset for finding edge cases and documenting clear, reproducible bug reports.
- Knowledge of SQL and database basics, enabling you to verify data integrity and perform deeper backend testing.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Sentry, Grafana, Loki) to help investigate and reproduce production issues.
- Great communication skills and a proactive attitude toward collaborating with developers and stakeholders to resolve issues.
- Practical programming skills (TypeScript, JavaScript is a plus) and hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks (Playwright is a plus), with the ability to write and update existing automated tests.
- Experience with Git for version control.
- Proficiency in API testing, using both automated tools and manual clients.
- Basic understanding of Docker for running tests in containers.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., BitBucket, GitHub Actions), including the ability to run tests and investigate pipeline failures.
It’s nice if you also have
- Experience with performance, security, or reliability testing.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and testing strategies (AWS is a plus).
- Basic experience with Mobile testing and responsive web testing across different devices.
Why choose HomeBuddy
- Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere without being tied to one place - while ensuring you are available to our team during the agreed working hours.
- Achieve a harmonious work-life balance with a flexible schedule tailored to your local needs, along with paid vacation, sick leave, and local holidays.
- Empower yourself with work equipment of your choice partially paid for by HomeBuddy and up-to-date apps and tools to maximize your productivity.
- Feel valued and appreciated with an industry-leading compensation package.
- Get recognized and rewarded for both outstanding individual efforts leading to extraordinary results and our team success.
- Enhance your well-being with our allowance program covering fitness activities and mental health programs.
- Learn and expand your knowledge by both working on complex tasks and using paid training opportunities, including courses, events, and conferences.
If this sounds like you, we should talk!
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