Quality Engineer

LHH; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) plan with match

12 days PTO + 10 holidays

Home office budget

Job summary

LHH is seeking a Quality Engineer to join our client's team in a full-time role. This position can sit in several different US locations.

As our client's first dedicated QA hire, you will build our automated test coverage from the ground up, run usability and performance testing, and set the quality practices the product development team works to. That means choosing tooling and standards yourself, and working embedded with the team rather than as a gate at the end.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software quality engineering or QA automation.
• Ownership of an automated test suite you built or rebuilt.
• Experience with a modern end-to-end framework such as Playwright or Cypress.
• Hands-on API testing including auth flows and data setup.
• Experience running performance or load tests with Gatling or k6.
• Experience planning and moderating usability testing.
• Comfort with CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows.
• Strong writing; produces usable documentation.
• Ability to set priorities without an existing playbook.

Responsibilities

• Build and own automated regression suites for web apps and APIs, wired into CI.
• Decide test levels and push coverage to the cheapest layer that catches problems.
• Write test code readable by other engineers; fix flaky tests.
• Run exploratory and risk-based manual testing where automation isn't ideal.
• Own release verification: smoke suites and environment checks.
• Plan and run usability testing with educators and SMEs.
• Collaborate on UAT with product and design; incorporate pilot feedback.
• Ensure accessibility testing against WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508.
• Build load, stress, soak, and spike tests; set and monitor performance baselines.
• Document and maintain testing standards and bug reporting conventions.

Skills

QA Automation

Automated Test Suite

Playwright/Cypress

API Testing

Performance Testing

Usability Testing

CI/CD & Git

Technical Writing

Prioritization

Tools

Gatling

k6

CI/CD tooling

Git workflows

Job description

LHH is seeking a Quality Engineer to join our client's team in a full-time role. This position can sit in several different US locations.

About the Role

As our client's first dedicated QA hire, you will build our automated test coverage from the ground up, run usability and performance testing, and set the quality practices the product development team works to. That means choosing tooling and standards yourself, and working embedded with the team rather than as a gate at the end.

Salary & Benefits

• $90k to $110k annual base salary
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan w/match (100% vested immediately)
• 12 days of PTO + 10 paid holidays to start (plus additional days off around 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and a week off between Christmas & New Year)
• Home office budget

Job Responsibilities

Functional testing and automation:

• Build and own automated regression suites for our web apps and APIs, wired into CI.
• Decide what belongs in unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests, and push coverage to the cheapest layer that catches the problem.
• Write test code other engineers can read and extend. Fix or delete flaky tests rather than retrying them.
• Run exploratory and risk-based manual testing where automation is not the right tool.
• Own release verification: smoke suites, environment checks, and a clear go/no-go call.

User testing:

• Plan and run usability testing with educators and internal subject-matter experts, from task scripts through to findings.
• Work with product and design on UAT, including feedback cycles with pilot districts and classrooms.
• Own accessibility testing against WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508, using automated scanners plus manual screen-reader and keyboard-only passes. This matters more here than at most companies.
• Turn findings into prioritized issues rather than a list of observations.

Performance testing:

• Build load, stress, soak, and spike tests, with attention to back-to-school traffic peaks.
• Set performance baselines and SLOs and track them so regressions show up before customers find them.
• Help diagnose bottlenecks: slow queries, N+1 patterns, payload bloat, front-end render cost.
• Report results leadership can act on: response times at percentile, error rates under load, remaining headroom.

Best practices and enablement:

• Document and maintain testing standards, test data strategy, bug reporting conventions, and definition of done.
• Coach engineers to test their own work. The goal is a team that ships quality, not a QA bottleneck.

Qualifications

Required Skills

• Required: 5+ years in software quality engineering or QA automation.
• Required: Ownership of an automated test suite you built or substantially rebuilt, not just executed.
• Required: Experience with a modern end-to-end framework such as Playwright or Cypress.
• Required: Hands-on API testing, including auth flows and data setup.
• Required: Experience running performance or load tests with a code-based tool such as Gatling or k6.
• Required: Experience planning and moderating user or usability testing sessions.
• Required: Comfort with CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows.
• Required: Strong writing. This role produces documentation people have to use.
• Required: Ability to set your own priorities without an existing playbook.

Preferred Skills

• Nice to have: Accessibility testing against WCAG and Section 508, including screen readers.
• Nice to have: EdTech, K–12, healthcare, or another domain with real compliance and privacy constraints.
• Nice to have: Mobile and tablet testing. Much classroom use is on iPads and Chromebooks.
• Nice to have: Visual regression, contract testing, or synthetic monitoring in production.
• Nice to have: Cloud infrastructure and containerized test environments.
• Nice to have: Mentoring engineers on testing practice, or standing up a QA function previously.
• Nice to have: Interest in special education, applied behavior analysis, or accessibility.

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