QA Engineer, ScholarshipOwl
Mobile
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
- Experience Level: 3+ years of professional experience in Mobile QA Engineering / Test Automation, with at least 1+ year actively incorporating AI coding tools into daily workflows
- Mobile Automation Mastery: Hands-on experience with Flutter automation frameworks (Patrol, Flutter Integration Test, or strong Appium/XCUITest/Espresso skills with eager readiness to master Patrol)
- API & Schema Verification: Proficiency in testing GraphQL APIs (Bruno, Postman, Playwright, or HTTP clients), including schema validation, headers, and JWT auth flows
- Mobile Ecosystem & Design: Comfort inspecting Figma files for UI specs/design tokens, using Xcode/Android Studio tools, managing Firebase Remote Config & feature flags, and navigating mobile app deployment lifecycles (Apple App Store / TestFlight, Google Play Console internal testing)
- CI/CD & Mobile DevOps: Experience with mobile CI/CD tools (Codemagic, GitLab CI) and Git/GitLab workflows
- 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, GraphQL schemas, and UI design tokens into AI models to auto-generate test cases, Patrol page objects, and mock payloads
- Dart & Component Testing: Direct Dart / Flutter coding ability to write unit and widget tests in-repo, as well as Flutter Storybook experience
- OTA & Scripting: Experience with Shorebird (OTA hot patching for Flutter) or basic TypeScript / Bun experience for writing Bruno test collections or schema scripts
- Cloud Infrastructure & Feature Flags: Exposure to GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Logging) and Unleash feature flag management
- Certifications: Certifications in Quality Engineering, Mobile Testing, or AI-Assisted Software Engineering
- Cross-Platform & GraphQL Experience: Prior experience testing cross-platform Flutter applications connected to GraphQL backends in fast-paced product companies
- Consumer Mobile SaaS: Previous experience testing consumer mobile apps, EdTech platforms, subscription/billing systems (Stripe, in-app purchases), or user onboarding funnels
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a highly skilled and innovative Mobile QA Engineer to lead end-to-end quality assurance, test automation, and release stability for our ScholarshipOwl Flutter mobile appand its integration with our GraphQL API
- You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring rapid, regression-free delivery across iOS, Android, and Shorebird OTA updates 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 mobile 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 pipelines using Patrol integrated directly into Codemagic and GitLab CI pipeline
- API & Contract QA: Establish automated contract and API integration testing to validate GraphQL schema updates against mobile query requirements, guaranteeing zero breaking changes
- AI Integration: Deeply integrate AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) into daily workflows to generate Patrol scripts directly from Figma specs, synthesize complex mock payloads, and automate log triage to double QA efficiency
- Shift-Left Quality Champion: Review feature specs in Figma and GraphQL schema definitions 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, Firebase Remote Config/Analytics, Sentry error logs, and GCP Cloud Run logs to triage issues across Flutter BLoC/UI state, GraphQL resolvers, and backend services, logging rich GitLab issues with dev-ready context
- Exploratory & Release Testing: Conduct testing across iOS Simulators, Android Emulators, physical devices, TestFlight, Google Play Console internal tracks, and Shorebird OTA hot-patches
- Component Testing: Utilize Flutter 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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