QA Engineer, ScholarshipOwl
Scholarship marketplace
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Scholarship marketplace
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help students get the financing they are looking for, no matter what it takes.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of professional experience in Web QA Engineering / Test Automation, with at least 1+ year actively incorporating AI coding tools into daily workflows.
- Web Automation Mastery: Strong hands-on experience with Playwright (or Cypress/Selenium with TypeScript/JavaScript) for automated E2E, visual regression, and cross-browser testing
- API & Schema Verification: Practical experience testing GraphQL and REST / JSON:API endpoints using Bruno, Postman, or script-based test collections
- Web Ecosystem & Profiling: Proficiency inspecting Nuxt/Vue DOM elements, inspecting Figma design specs/tokens, and utilizing Browser DevTools & Network profiling
- CI/CD & Pipeline Integration: Experience integrating automated test runs into Git/GitLab CI pipelines and configuring test reporters (e.g., HTML/JUnit)
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience in software development / test automation
- Communication: Clear, concise async communication skills in written and spoken English for bug reporting, documentation, and remote collaboration
Desirable
- AI-Native Focus: Advanced proficiency loading architecture specs, schemas, and UI design tokens into AI models to auto-generate Page Object Models and edge-case scenarios
- TypeScript & Component Testing: Direct TypeScript, Vue 3, and Nuxt coding knowledge for writing component tests in Vitest and Storybook
- Messaging & AI Service QA: Experience testing asynchronous messaging workflows (Twilio webhooks, SMS/RCS) or evaluating generative AI/LLM integration outputs (e.g., Gemini AI)
- Cloud Infrastructure & Feature Flags: Exposure to Docker, GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Build), and Unleash feature flag management
- Certifications in Quality Engineering, Web Testing, or AI-Assisted Software Engineering
- Backend Stack Familiarity: Ability to read and debug PHP/Laravel core code and Bun/Node runtimes to assist engineering teams during multi-service bug isolation
- High-Traffic Consumer SaaS: Previous experience testing consumer SaaS web applications, complex user conversion funnels, EdTech platforms, or subscription/stripe billing flows
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a highly skilled and innovative QA Engineer to lead end-to-end quality assurance, test automation, and release verification across our web platforms and supporting microservices
- You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring zero-regression web releases, fast user conversion funnel performance, and seamless multi-service integrations for millions of students
- In this role, you will champion the "new generation" of quality engineering
- Beyond traditional test automation, you will leverage modern AI coding assistants (such as Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini) as your primary force multiplier to achieve maximum test coverage at unmatched speed
- Working closely with frontend and backend teams across a modern multi-service architecture, you will shift quality left, auditing Figma specs before sprint commitments, reviewing PRs, and maintaining continuous quality gates in our CI/CD pipelines
- End-to-End Web Automation: Build, maintain, and execute parallelized E2E smoke and regression test suites using Playwright and TypeScript, integrated directly into GitLab CI pipelines
- API & Contract QA: Establish automated schema and contract test coverage across our platform, guaranteeing zero breaking changes for web users
- AI Integration: Deeply integrate AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) into daily workflows to generate Playwright scripts directly from Figma specs, synthesize complex mock payloads, and automate log triage to double QA efficiency
- Shift-Left Quality Champion: Audit Figma design specs, UX flows, and API contracts early to catch edge cases, logic gaps, and design flaws before sprint commitments and development begin. Participate actively in PR reviews
- System Observability & Triage: Monitor build health, Sentry error logs, GCP Cloud Run logs, and Network profiling tools to isolate bugs rapidly between Nuxt frontend state, GraphQL resolvers, and Laravel backend MySQL databases
- Asynchronous Integration Verification: Validate complex messaging and outreach workflows
- Component Testing: Utilize Vitest and Storybook to conduct visual regression and component-level testing early in the release lifecycle
Our take
The US student debt burden is gargantuan and ever-growing, causing more and more college applicants to turn to scholarships to secure funds for their education. But the environment is highly competitive, requiring multiple applications to maximize the chances of winning funds – all of which take time and effort that students should be free to spend elsewhere.
ScholarshipOwl provides a way to reduce time-spent on applications, and access all scholarships a student is eligible for, vastly improving the chances that they secure financial help. Once students fill out a central form, all application forms they choose to submit will be populated with this information automatically, allowing students to focus on the personal parts of applications such as essays.
The company has experienced strong popularity since its launch, enabling it to expand its mission to make education more accessible - for example by launching a Guide to College Scholarships, and more community-focussed features. ScholarshipOwl has also launched a B2B product that empowers companies to get on the scholarship train, leveraging it as a marketing channel to activate university-age consumers across the US.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2014
$0.5m
SEED
Total funding: $0.5m
Company HQ
Southbridge, Pennsville, DE
Leadership
Kenny Sandorffy
(Founder)Former CEO of the company. General Manager at VentureKite and Strategic Advisor at SmartClinic. Owner of Better Online. Previously founded Contrast.
David Tabachnikov
(CEO)Originally joined the ScholarshipOwl team as CTO in 2015, becoming CEO in 2018. Previously co-founded Coffeetap where they served as the CEO. Prior to that, they were a Senior Web Engineer at Google.
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