Sr QA Automation Engineer (with Java) - Poland

Who are we?

Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business. With easy-to-use tools for scheduling, dispatching, payments, and more, Housecall Pro enables Pros to save time, grow profitably, and provide best-in-class service. Housecall Pro’s brand portfolio includes Business Coaching by Housecall Pro, a business coaching solution for home services businesses. Our brands are united by a singular mission to champion our Pros to success.

We support more than 40,000 businesses and have over 1,800 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving teammates across the globe (half of the engineering team is in Poland 🇵🇱). If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that will invest in you every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you.

Housecall Pro celebrates diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law.

Compensation: 6 500 USD - 7 500 USD per month (B2B)

🚀 We also offer:

• Paid time off
• Flexible work hours
• 100% remote work
• Equity shares in a rapidly growing company backed by top-tier VCs
• A culture built on innovation that values big ideas
• Working in Central European Time*
• Newest MacBook + Setup Fee ($500)

👉*We work in CET, but this role will occasionally require sync meetings with the US team, which may shift your workday to finish later in the afternoon (6:00 PM), as we operate with flexible hours.

🚀 The Role:

Housecall Pro is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. As a key member of our growing team, you'll support and create web and mobile automation frameworks and tests by designing, building, testing, and deploying test automation solutions for the Housecall Pro web applications, and native mobile apps on both iOS and Android OS. You'll work to understand features, review technical designs, and implement automated test tools that ensure quality features with efficiency.

Initially, your primary focus will be supporting our Marketing Team by automating the testing of our company websites and landing pages to ensure high quality, responsiveness, and performance across various devices and platforms (both web and mobile). Over time, you may collaborate with other development teams to support them in testing our product (HCP platform).

Our ideal candidate is responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets the needs of our Professionals while being cost-effective. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems, we’d like to meet you.

🚀 Joining Housecall Pro means:

• Building a product that really improves users’ lives (70k users, 4.6 rates at App Store) - 🎥 learn more about how we help our users!;
• Being a part of the Polish team of engineers, who put the highest priority on the quality and safety of technical solutions;
• Working with an experienced QA team and having a real impact on technical decisions;
• Working with a mature, interdisciplinary dev team (almost 100% of the Polish squad are seniors);
• You are committed to your work, open to feedback, and eager to share your knowledge, just like us

🚀 This offer is for you if you have:

• BS in Computer Science or a related area, or with relevant work experience.
• 7+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Software Developer, or similar Automation role in Agile Development environments.
• Strong programming skills in Java.
• Experience with designing test frameworks that are easily maintainable, resilient, performant, and scalable.
• Proficient in developing API, Web, and Mobile (iOS and Android) test automation using tools like Selenium Webdriver, TestNg, Appium, and RestAssured.
• Experience in performance testing is highly valued, and familiarity with tools like Debug Bear is a plus.
• Successfully implemented a CI/CD automation strategy and understand the value derived from shipping code rapidly to production and learning/iterating on the results.
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Proficiency at identifying and analyzing the root cause of complex bugs in your code as well as others’ code.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize tasks, and quickly adjust in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experience in working cross-functionally to drive quality across the SDLC, including reviewing application code assisting with design for testability, and using data to drive decisions about impact and rate of investment of test code.
• Passion for mentoring others and growing the careers of those around you.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
• Fluency in Polish and English.
• A strong passion for using AI technologies to enhance productivity, quality, and innovation.
• Curiosity and drive to stay ahead of emerging AI/ML technologies and their practical applications.

🚀 What You'll Be Doing:

• Design robust test scripts for API, Web, and Mobile applications using Java, Selenium, Appium, and other industry testing tools.
• Conduct a review of requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases on different test levels ( integration, system, functional, regression, exploratory testing)
• Contribute to improving the test automation infrastructure & CI/CD jobs.
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
• Implement and help the team embrace best automation practices to maintain quality.
• Participate in iteration planning meetings and daily stand-ups to stay on top of things and report progress.
• Work closely with team squads to clarify requirements, ensure testability and automate-ability, and provide feedback on design (functional and technical).
• Be a vocal champion for quality in every phase of the development process.
• Work closely with development to facilitate unit tests and integration tests.
• Coaching/mentoring collaborative team members.
• Stay abreast of industry-best tools, methods, and best practices related to both manual and automated testing.

This role is open to candidates inside Poland. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.