Quality Engineering Lead

Location: Remote in Toronto

Job Type: Full Time - Permanent

Hours: Mon-Fri, 40 hours/week

If interested, please apply to this through our career site using the link provided:

https://jobs.lever.co/homestars/68a173b8-788f-4284-a2c3-79f380b98fa1

Perks of joining HomeStars:

• All our roles are currently remote. Office equipment supplied!
• Equity in the business: Share in HomeStars’ success with a $5,000USD/year grant
• Comprehensive benefits package. We want our employees to stay healthy!
• Monthly wellness activities to support your mental and physical health
• Home Improvement Credit: All employees receive a yearly credit to use toward a service from HomeStars
• December Closure: Our whole team takes a break in the last week of December, every year
• Personal Days: 5 extra days off per year, on top of vacation and sick days
• Beautiful brick & beam office in the heart of Toronto’s entertainment district, including a rec room with lounge, ping pong, darts, and foosball

The Opportunity:
We are looking for an experienced leader in the quality engineering domain to help us improve and build our quality engineering practice. As we grow our platform to serve our customers better, the role that quality engineering plays in delivering a quality product will be vital. On our path to building a highly efficient engineering practice, test automation and the integration with the CI/CD pipeline will become a pivotal part of how we work. And you will be a crucial player in all this. We are looking for someone who can be with us in our journey and mentor our engineers to improve how we test, who will evaluate and build processes to unlock process bottlenecks.

Your typical day at HomeStars:

• Create and champion test standards for development teams.
• Define and implement QA processes to optimize and scale testing within the product family,
• Develop test strategies for business-critical projects to ensure product correctness before launch.
• Partner with agile teams to leverage automation for scalable solutions to prevent regressions and ensure the reliability of products.
• Define, build and report on quality metrics/dashboards to key stakeholders.
• Research and implement solutions & tools to assist in the improvement of product family quality.
• Mentor and train other quality engineers and collaborate with their direct manager.
• Cultivate and maintain a healthy team culture and foster a quality mindset across teams.

Must-have qualifications:

• 5+ years of software quality engineering experience.
• 3+ years of serving as a Quality/Test Lead or Manager.
• Professional coding experience in Java, JavaScript, Python, or Ruby.
• Test automation experience across the automation pyramid (e.g. UI, Accessibility, API, Unit).
• Experience in all phases of the software and testing lifecycle, inception through deployment.
• Diverse background in leading test strategy, test planning, test case design, and execution.
• Delivery leadership within Agile methodology projects (e.g. Scrum)
• Proficiency using common test management tools (e.g. TestRail, HP ALM).
• Experience in test data management.
• Experience in performance/load testing.
• Strong leader, educator, and coach.
• An excellent communicator and motivator.
• Strong interpersonal skills and patience.
• Can work independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.

Nice-to-have qualifications:

• International Software Testing Qualifications Board certification (ISTQB).
• Certified Quality Engineer (CQE).
• Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST).
• Computer Science background.

About HomeStars

HomeStars is Canada’s leading platform connecting homeowners with qualified service professionals for their home improvement needs. Every month, over half a million homeowners visit HomeStars to research and select the best-rated professionals nearby. Check out homestars.com to learn more!

HomeStars Core Values

Our Core Values are woven into everything we do. They guide how we behave, how we act, and what we will aspire to be. They underpin the culture of HomeStars and act as drivers for impact, personal growth, and collective performance.

Customer Obsessed: When our customers thrive, we thrive. We put their needs first.
Think Big: We think without limits. We believe in the possible.
Embrace Candor: We speak up, listen and challenge respectfully.
Act Like an Owner: We’re invested, we own our outcomes.
Bias for Action: We take action to accelerate our success. Speed matters.
We’re Stronger Together: Our differences empower us, our will to win unites us.

HomeStars has recently been recognized as:

Great Place to Work® CertifiedTM
Best Workplaces for Hybrid Work, Canada 2022
Best Workplaces Managed by Women, Canada 2021
Best Workplaces in Technology, Canada 2020
Best Workplaces for Today’s Youth, Canada 2020

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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