Senior Quality Engineer

LawnStarter

23h•Remote

About The Position

LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and outdoor services, with over $100M in annual bookings. We're expanding beyond lawn care to become the one-stop shop for all home services, operating across three brands (LawnStarter, Lawn Love, Home Gnome) on a single shared platform. Our engineering team has spent the last two years rebuilding the platform from the ground up with a new customer app, new Pro onboarding, job distribution engine, and data infrastructure. The foundation is solid, and we're now moving into expanded service verticals, dynamic pricing, and AI-powered features at scale. Quality needs to keep up. Our stack is PHP (Laravel) and React/React Native, with Cypress as our primary test framework. We actively use Claude Code as part of our engineering workflow. This role exists to make quality proactive: owning the automation coverage, shaping the bug process, and partnering closely with Product, Design, and the Data team to catch problems before they reach customers. You'll report to the Engineering Manager and be embedded across the engineering organization. This is hands-on and strategic, helping raise the quality ceiling for the whole team.

Requirements

AI-native. You use AI tools like Claude Code to write, maintain, and extend test code, not as a novelty, but as a standard part of how you work.
Comfortable with browser MCPs, agent workflows, and building scripts that automate the boring parts of QA.
Automation-first. Your default when you find a problem is to ask how to prevent it automatically.
Build test infrastructure that outlasts any individual test case.
Think like a user. When you're testing a flow, you're asking whether it actually works for a real customer, not just whether it matches the spec.
Adaptable. You don't get attached to a single tool, stack, or process.
Lean into rapid evolution in how software gets built and tested, especially with AI, rather than resist it.
Collaborative and direct. You work across Product, Design, Engineering, and Operations.
Surface risks early, speak plainly about what you find, and push back when something isn't ready to ship.
Comfortable reading and writing code.
Understand front and backend web services well enough to test them properly, write meaningful SQL queries, and debug issues across the stack.

Nice To Haves

Keeping automation coverage sharp as the product evolves
Exploring new tools and leveraging AI to improve quality operations
Actively explore the AI space for testing tools and applications

Responsibilities

Design and grow our E2E and integration test suite using Cypress.
Set the strategy, prioritize coverage gaps, and raise the floor across the platform.
Own the full lifecycle of bugs from triage to production fix.
Keep the bug process moving, keep stakeholders informed, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Collaborate with PMs, Designers, and the Data team to review requirements, raise risks early, and define what "done" actually means.
Identify weaknesses in how we deliver software and propose solutions.
Test new features and existing flows on web and mobile across devices, catching what automation misses.