Senior QA Engineer

About Hometap

Hometap is a company dedicated to making homeownership less stressful and more accessible. Our first product, a home equity investment, allows homeowners to access their built-up equity without taking on debt, enabling them to pay for significant life expenses like debt management or home renovations.

We foster a collaborative and passionate environment where we work hard and have fun. Our commitment to innovation and being a great place to work has been recognized by publications like The Boston Globe, Forbes, Inc., and HousingWire.

Hometap offers competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare coverage, unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO), a generous share package, and a strong culture that emphasizes team-building and camaraderie.

Position Overview

As a Senior QA Engineer at Hometap, you will play a crucial role in delivering a world-class experience for both homeowners and investors. You are a quality advocate, meticulous, attentive to detail, mission-driven, and focused on delivering results. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing QA team and significantly influence Hometap's software quality strategy as the company scales.

While this role is fully remote, we are prioritizing candidates who can occasionally travel to our Boston office for work sessions and events.

Responsibilities

• Quality Assurance: Conduct QA and regression testing for software supporting Hometap’s mission.
• UAT: Drive User Acceptance Testing (UAT) programs with internal stakeholders and users.
• Automation: Build, architect, and contribute to our automated regression testing suite, expanding test coverage and assisting teams.
• Training: Train engineers on our automation framework and solutions.
• Integration Testing: Devise solutions to automate the testing of third-party integrations.
• CI/CD & DevOps Collaboration: Partner with DevOps to create and maintain AWS sandbox environments for testing and build robust continuous testing pipelines using tools like Docker and AWS services (S3, Cloudwatch, Lambdas, ECS, etc.).
• Technology Evaluation: Suggest and evaluate new technologies and tools to enhance the QA Team and the broader Technical Product Organization.
• Product Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Product team, maintain in-depth knowledge of Hometap software, and conduct acceptance testing for new features, ensuring they are covered by automation.
• Release Readiness: Act as a key stakeholder in release readiness validation, empowered to prevent the release of immature software.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in web application testing.
• QA Expertise: Strong knowledge of QA processes, testing methodologies, and best practices, with a passion for promoting quality standards throughout product development.
• Automation Experience: 2+ years of experience with web QA automation tools and frameworks. Opportunity to significantly contribute to the design and development of our automation framework.
• Code Reviews & Training: Experience conducting code reviews for test automation code and training others on automation best practices, code standards, and maintainability.
• Programming Proficiency: Proficiency in JavaScript. Comfortable learning and using any programming or scripting language for writing robust automated tests.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Experience implementing continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines and collaborating with DevOps teams.
• API Testing: Experience with API testing.
• Requirements Management: Extensive proficiency in requirements handling, working with product managers to establish a firm understanding of product requirements.