[Hiring] QA Engineer @Modernize Home Services

Role Description

QuinStreet Home Services is looking for a detail-oriented QA Engineer to ensure product quality through a combination of manual exploratory testing and automated UI and API testing. You’ll collaborate closely with developers throughout the development lifecycle, design comprehensive test scenarios, investigate defects, and contribute to improving our testing processes and automation framework. This role is ideal for someone with strong analytical skills, a proactive mindset, and hands-on experience with modern testing tools and CI/CD workflows who is passionate about delivering reliable, high-quality products.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in manual testing methodologies, including test design, requirement analysis, and exploratory testing techniques.
• Proficiency in API 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.
• Basic understanding of Docker for running tests in containers.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., BitBucket, CircleCI), including the ability to run tests and investigate pipeline failures.

Nice to 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.

Company Description

At Modernize (a QuinStreet division), our mission is to simplify home improvement by inspiring motivated homeowners and connecting them with qualified contractors. Our foundation is based on 20 years as a driving force in online lead generation – connecting homeowners with high-quality contractors – in the $500 billion annually grossing home improvement market. We’re working hard on a new brand and new products to cater to homeowners and the most successful contractors in the industry.

We’re looking for sharp, motivated individuals to join our growing team. Teammates who enjoy using technology to solve problems will thrive in our dynamic startup environment. We have an open floor plan that encourages the entire team to participate in critical discussions and allows everyone to be a vital contributing factor. You’ll enjoy our hip, newly renovated office in the heart of downtown with a view of the capital and the downtown skyline.