Senior Quality Engineer, Test Automation & Release Quality
LawnStarter
About LawnStarter
LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand platform for lawn care and landscaping services, and our vision is to be one-stop shop for all outdoor home services. Over the past 10 years, we've grown to 120 metro areas, raised $35 million in funding, and acquired our biggest competitor, solidifying our leadership in the space. Watch this video to learn more about us!
What makes this role awesome:
1 - Team
We believe the most significant part of any work environment is the team. Given this, we have spent a massive amount of time finding humble, hungry, and smart folks that you will get to work with every single day. That’s a huge part of the reason LawnStarter received the best places to work award in 2018, 2019 and 2020 from the Austin-American Statesman.
2 - Growth
We have a small, tight-knit team willing to give responsibility to anyone who is hungry, humble, and smart. You’ll be owning the outcome of your work and helping to shape the future of the business. If you're hungry for career growth and want to develop your skills, LawnStarter is the place to be.
3 - Startup Environment (Without the Early Stage Risk)
We are generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue per year enabling us to have a close-knit, agile, and fun environment that make startups so alluring with the added benefit of stability. We are backed by some of the leading venture and growth equity funds in the technology space.
About this Role.
We're hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to strengthen how LawnStarter ships software across our marketplace platform. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and product, focused on building confidence into every release before it reaches customers.
In this role, you will:
Own and evolve automated testing coverage across our web and mobile products
Work directly with engineering pods to bake quality checks into the development process, not bolt them on after
Lead root-cause investigations when production issues surface, coordinating across teams to close the loop
Strengthen our CI/CD pipeline's testing infrastructure
Coach engineers on writing better tests and thinking about edge cases earlier
Requirements
5+ years of hands-on QA/QE experience, including building and maintaining automated test frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
Experience testing both web and mobile applications in production environments
Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how automated testing fits into them
Experience working in a marketplace, two-sided platform, or similarly fast-moving startup environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally across engineering, product, and support
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
Benefits
Competitive salary
Flexible PTO
Remote-first culture with a distributed team
Opportunity to shape quality practices at a fast-growing marketplace company
About LawnStarter: we run an on-demand marketplace pairing homeowners with lawn care and outdoor service pros, processing significant booking volume and backed by leading investors.
