QA Engineer

About ScholarshipOwl

ScholarshipOwl is the largest scholarship marketplace in the US, using AI to connect 14 million students who are looking for scholarships with companies that are looking for students. Our mission is to make education financing more accessible and engaging, while giving brands a way to connect with the next generation.

We’re powered by AI technology that simplifies scholarship discovery, streamlines the application process, and delivers measurable results for both students and partners. Whether it’s helping students secure funding or enabling brands to run impactful campaigns, we’re reshaping how education is funded — and discovered.

The Role

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.