QA Engineer

Boom • Austin, TX

3d • $70,000 - $95,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Boom is building a suite of rental financial services for renters and property managers, including tenant screening, rent payment reporting, rent reporting-as-a-service, and integrations with property management systems. The QA Engineer will own product quality, reliability, and consistency across the Boom platform, conducting manual and exploratory testing, identifying bugs, and verifying quality across web, mobile, and integrations. This role focuses on customer impact, edge cases, and release readiness, partnering with product, engineering, and customer success to ensure high-quality user experiences. The position is based in Austin, TX.

Requirements

• 2+ years of QA or software testing experience, ideally on web and mobile in SaaS or fintech.
• Strong analytical instincts; ability to assess product behavior beyond documented acceptance criteria and proactively clarify requirements.
• Ability to write clean, structured bug reports (repro steps, screenshots, severity, expected vs actual).
• Comfortable with browser dev tools, network inspection, basic debugging, and API integration testing.
• Daily use of AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) for test case generation, exploratory testing, and scripting.
• Ability to balance thoroughness with speed in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Strong written communicator who collaborates cross-functionally with product and engineering.

Nice To Haves

• Experience testing payment flows, financial systems, or compliance-sensitive features.
• Exposure to test automation or scripting.
• Empathy for end users, including low-to-moderate-income renters, and a desire to build products that make a difference.

Responsibilities

• Run manual and exploratory testing across new features, regressions, and edge cases.
• Validate behavior across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices.
• Test third-party integrations (payment processors, accounting systems, banking partners) for data accuracy and reliability.
• Own final QA sign-off for production releases.
• Maintain regression suites and catch unintended side effects from new code or config changes.
• Write clear, reproducible bug reports with screenshots, repro steps, expected vs actual behavior, and severity.
• Verify fixes in staging and production.
• Partner with PMs and engineers to clarify requirements, reproduce issues, and ship customer-focused tests grounded in real user workflows.
• Maintain test cases, checklists, and QA standards so quality holds up as we scale.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with stock options
• Full healthcare coverage (health, dental, vision)
• 50% coverage for dependents on healthcare
• 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
• 3 sick days
• All US federal holidays (11 in total)
• Company-issued laptop/MacBook
• Company-sponsored training & development
• Regular off-sites, retreats, and other company-sponsored events and travel opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed