Staff QA Engineer (AI & Automation Leader)

Housecall Pro; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 71,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Flexible time off

MacBook provided

Workspace stipend

Equity

Job summary

Housecall Pro in Denver, CO is seeking a Staff QA Engineer I to advance our AI-enabled testing programs. You will develop manual and automated tests, mentor juniors, and work with product and engineering to ensure robust release quality across our Home Service platform.

Responsibilities include leading AI adoption in test pipelines, defining safe AI usage standards, designing agentic test workflows, and guiding teams through root-cause analyses when issues arise.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in quality assurance, with both manual and automated testing.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab, CircleCI).

Responsibilities

• Lead AI adoption and operationalization across the squad. Design AI-enhanced testing workflows, measure impact with evidence, and continuously improving quality and efficiency.
• Define standards for the safe, reliable use of AI within test pipelines, regression systems, and validation workflows while measuring ROI.
• Design and govern agentic testing workflows using MCP technologies (Maestro MCP, Playwright MCP) across multiple teams.
• Evaluate emerging AI and agentic testing technologies and lead root-cause analysis when workflows degrade through false positives, regression drift, unstable automation, or other quality issues.
• Partner with MLOps, platform, Product, and Engineering teams to establish evaluation standards, production quality baselines, and scalable validation strategies.
• Design advanced test strategies, plans, and machine-readable test cases that enable AI-assisted automated test generation and strengthen coverage for new features and complex product changes.
• Establish and continuously improve quality assurance methodologies, automated testing frameworks, and technical standards that influence quality practices across Engineering.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to refine requirements, identify quality risks, and ensure comprehensive test coverage throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Mentor quality assurance and engineering professionals in advanced testing techniques, AI-assisted quality practices, and scalable automation approaches.
• Communicate quality insights, testing outcomes, technical risks, and recommendations clearly to Engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders

Skills

QA Engineering

Automated Testing

Playwright

Cypress

TestNG

JUnit

CI/CD

JIRA

TestRail

AI Testing

Tools

Maestro MCP

Playwright MCP

GitLab

CircleCI

JIRA

TestRail

Job description

Housecall Pro in Denver, CO is seeking a Staff QA Engineer I to advance our AI-enabled testing programs. You will develop manual and automated tests, mentor juniors, and work with product and engineering to ensure robust release quality across our Home Service platform.

Responsibilities include leading AI adoption in test pipelines, defining safe AI usage standards, designing agentic test workflows, and guiding teams through root-cause analyses when issues arise.