LawnStarter is hiring a

Senior Quality Engineer

Full-Time
Remote

LawnStarter is the nation’s leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and related services, allowing hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide to book a service with the tap of a button. But lawn care is only the beginning - our vision is to become the one-stop shop for all home services.

Our company is flourishing at an incredible pace, profitable and achieving remarkable success. And we're not stopping there! We're actively seeking talented and hard-working individuals like you to join our team and help us achieve our ultimate vision.

What you'll do:

As a Senior Quality Engineer at LawnStarter, you’ll report to the Engineering Manager and you’ll be in a hands-on role responsible for the evaluation and testing of the LawnStarter platform. You will collaborate with software engineering, product management, and design teams to design and execute manual and automated tests to ensure quality software delivered to our customers on a daily basis. 

You’ll also:

  • Be the customer! Work closely with our Operations team to ensure our customers’ needs are served
  • Shepherd the bug process, providing status updates from bug triage to delivery of fixes into production
  • Create and execute manual test cases
  • Perform exploratory testing of existing applications
  • Evangelize quality! Analyze and anticipate process optimizations to reduce cost and improve efficiency through the software development cycle
  • Play a key role in evaluating and documenting departmental processes for efficiency and effectiveness
  • Apply hands-on technical troubleshooting skills to existing processes with quality problems

Requirements

What we’re looking for:

We’re looking for you if you’re an experienced quality engineer with a love for continuous improvement, and is proficient in delivering quality products and building tests within all levels of the testing pyramid. More specifically, we’re looking for:

5+ years of quality engineering experience

Proficiency working in a customer-centric, manual testing environment

Experience using issue tracking tools like Jira, and collaboration tools such as Confluence

Comfort in testing both front and backend web services

Solid knowledge of SQL

Expertise testing on various devices: mobile phones, tablets, and desktop computers

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in cross functional teams

All team members at LawnStarter are expected to embody our core values which are: Be Data-Driven, Get Shit Done, People are Critical, Challenge the Status Quo, Be Scrappy, Build a Great Environment.

What makes this role awesome

1 - One Team, One Heart

We believe the most significant part of any work environment is the team. That’s why 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 in 2018 award from the Austin-American Statesman.

2 - Growth

We have a small, tight-knit engineering team willing to give responsibility to anyone that is hungry, humble, and smart. You’ll have opportunities to own large portions of our technical direction for new features, and larger projects. You’ll get to work with a team of passionate engineers who are eager to share our knowledge and experience, and also learn from yours.

3 - High-Performance Distributed Team Environment

We are a diverse and distributed team which are passionate about the empowerment to deliver daily value to our users. We have built our core business with great unit economics and efficiency. What does that mean? Well, that allows us the opportunity to solve new and exciting challenges building innovation leading the market segment we are in. Put simply, we have unique problems being solved in a fast-paced environment but are extremely stable and able to continue investing in the future.

Benefits

Great Culture: One of the top places to work in Austin in 2018, 2019, and 2020, and in the US in 2021, we are all about the team. That’s why we have spent a massive amount of time finding humble, passionate, and smart folks that you will get to work with every day.

Fully remote position: Work remotely from anywhere you want.

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