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Principal Quality Engineer
LawnStarter. Own and evolve LawnStarter's company-wide quality engineering roadmap .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in AI-native quality engineering, including the development of test strategies and tooling for various testing types. Proven ability to lead QA teams, mentor engineers, and establish quality accountability frameworks across the organization.
Highest-signal resume keywords
AI-Native Quality Engineering ExperienceCI/CD Pipeline ManagementTest Automation and InfrastructureMentorship and Coaching SkillsPerformance Management Experience
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Hard Skills
Test Strategy DefinitionComponent TestingAPI TestingEnd-to-End TestingPerformance TestingMobile Test AutomationQuality Tooling DevelopmentTest GenerationQuality GuidanceIncident Response Monitoring
Soft Skills
Technical MentorshipInfluencing SkillsCoaching Abilities
Tools & Technologies
Claude CodeMCP-Based WorkflowsQuality GatesVisual Regression PipelinesPerformance Budgets
Industry Keywords
Quality Engineering RoadmapQuality Accountability FrameworkTesting ApproachesContinuous Quality ImprovementTest Flakiness Reduction
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own and evolve LawnStarter's company-wide quality engineering roadmap
- Establish a quality accountability framework defining responsibilities for engineers, EMs, and PMs
- Define test strategies across unit, component, contract, API, end-to-end, mobile, performance, load, and accessibility testing
- Develop and advance AI-native quality tooling for test generation, code review, and quality guidance
- Own CI/CD and test infrastructure, including quality gates, E2E and visual regression pipelines, performance budgets, and mobile test automation
- Decide which checks block deployments versus run asynchronously while keeping pipelines fast
- Connect monitoring with incident response and build actionable quality dashboards
- Provide technical mentorship to QA engineers across squads and provide input to their Engineering Managers for performance reviews
- Lead the QA squad's technical direction and unify quality practices across teams
- Improve test flakiness, pipeline cost, and synchronous versus asynchronous execution
- Ship new AI-native quality capabilities and drive continuous quality engineering improvement
Requirements
What you’ll need- AI-native quality engineering experience, including using AI to generate tests
- Experience setting up agentic tooling such as Claude Code or MCP-based workflows
- Experience designing testing approaches appropriate to team maturity
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining component, contract, API, end-to-end, and performance test suites
- Experience with CI pipelines, test automation, and infrastructure
- Ability to coach engineers on testing practices and run enablement sessions
- Ability to build tooling and CI pipelines hands-on
- Ability to influence and mentor QA engineers across squads without initially owning headcount
- Hiring, coaching, and performance management experience for a QA or engineering team is a plus
Benefits
Comp & perks- Fully remote
- Flexible PTO: Measured on outcomes, not hours logged.