Senior QA Engineer

Hometap•Boston, MA

2d•$130,000 - $140,000

About The Position

As a Senior QA Engineer at Hometap, you'll play a central role in ensuring the quality of the software that powers our mission — from the homeowner-facing platform to investor tools and internal operations systems. Reporting to the QA Manager, you'll contribute to our quality strategy, help grow our automation capabilities, and have meaningful influence over how we build and release software as we scale nationwide. This role is a great fit if you're detail-oriented, quality-obsessed, and energized by building the processes and tooling that help teams release with confidence.

Requirements

5+ years of professional experience in web application testing
Strong command of QA processes, testing methodologies, and best practices, with a track record of championing quality standards across all phases of product development
2+ years of hands-on experience with web QA automation tools and frameworks
Experience conducting code reviews of test automation code and mentoring others on best practices, code standards, and maintainability
Proficiency in JavaScript for writing automated tests, with the adaptability to pick up additional languages as needed
Experience implementing continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines and collaborating with DevOps
Experience with API testing and UI/UX testing
Ability to partner with product managers to translate feature requirements into comprehensive test plans, thinking from the perspective of multiple stakeholders
Meaningful experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code)
Strong exploratory testing skills and a high-quality bar

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cypress or PlayWright
Experience with Python/Python-based frameworks such as Django
AWS ecosystem expertise
Experience with security testing

Responsibilities

QA and regression-test software for Hometap’s homeowner platform, investor tools, and internal systems
Drive user acceptance testing (UAT) programs with internal stakeholders and end users
Help to architect, build, and continuously extend our automated regression testing suite; mentor engineers on the automation framework and best practices
Design solutions to automate testing of third-party integrations
Collaborate closely with DevOps to create and maintain AWS sandbox environments for testing and build robust continuous testing pipelines, utilizing tools such as Docker and AWS
Suggest and evaluate new technologies and tools to assist the QA Team and the overall Technical Product Organization
Partner with the Product team; carry in-depth knowledge of Hometap software, and acceptance-test new features while covering them with automation
Be a key stakeholder in release readiness validation; be empowered to prevent immature software from premature release