QA Automation Engineer
Quo
QA Automation Engineer
Quo
Cloud-based business phone system for startups
Small businesses represent 99.9% of all companies, yet they're still forced to choose between clunky, outdated enterprise phone systems or their personal phones. This multi-billion dollar market has been overlooked for decades, left to cobble together solutions that slow them down instead of helping them grow.
Quo is changing that. We bring calls, texts, and customer information together into one easy-to-use, AI-powered platform. We're not just building a phone system. We're setting a new standard for how businesses connect with their customers.
Driven by our values, we move fast, build with determination, and obsess over delivering value to the businesses that have been underserved for far too long.
Today, Quo is trusted by more than 120,000 companies and rated #1 in customer satisfaction on G2. We're backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global, Craft Ventures, Slow Ventures, and other top-tier investors. It's safe to say we're onto something big.
We're looking for a QA Automation Engineer (SDET), Mobile to help build and maintain the shared test automation platform that Quo's engineering teams rely on, with a focus on our mobile apps. This is a mid-level role on our growing Quality Engineering team - one of two Automation Engineer hires (this mobile-focused role and a web-focused counterpart) opening alongside a Quality Ambassador req from the same headcount round.
Per our Test Automation Philosophy & Ownership Framework, feature teams own the tests that validate what they build, at every layer including end-to-end; our Automation Engineers own the shared platform underneath - the frameworks, harnesses, and canonical patterns (Maestro, Playwright, our API contract harness) - plus the specific cross-team suites nobody else owns, like smoke tests and the mobile device/OS matrix. In this role, you'll own the mobile side of that platform. You'll help build and maintain it, not absorb test-writing from feature teams.
You'll join a small, fast-moving Quality Engineering team that's actively redefining how automation and manual QA work together, reporting to our Director of Quality Engineering.
Own and extend our shared mobile test platform: the Maestro framework feature teams build their own tests on top of, working alongside our web automation engineer who owns the Playwright side
Own the mobile device/OS matrix, along with mobile smoke tests and other cross-team mobile suites nobody else owns
Contribute to coverage-gap audits across mobile and backend API tests, turning findings into real, owned test coverage
Diagnose and drive down flaky tests in CI - telling the difference between a flaky test, an unstable environment or device, and a real regression
Help maintain and extend tooling that turns customer-reported bugs into scoped coverage-gap work
Partner constantly with mobile, backend, and web engineers to embed testing patterns into their workflow, including how shipping mobile differs from shipping web
Help socialize canonical testing patterns and standards to squads as they mature
3+ years of professional software engineering or SDET experience, with meaningful time spent building and maintaining test automation, not just writing individual test cases
Hands-on experience with mobile test automation tools like Maestro or Appium (or similar) on native mobile apps
Comfortable owning device and OS matrix testing, and you understand how deploying mobile differs from deploying web (for example, store release cycles and device/OS fragmentation)
Comfortable reasoning about cost/confidence tradeoffs - which layer of the test pyramid actually earns its cost for a given risk, rather than defaulting to end-to-end for everything
Interested in building shared harnesses and canonical patterns other engineers build on top of, not just adding one-off tests
Able to systematically diagnose and drive down flake rate in CI
Understands how to validate a public or internal API's contract (auth, request/response shapes, error codes) independent of full end-to-end coverage
Comfortable working from coverage and defect-escape dashboards to prioritize what gets automated next
Strong programming skills, ideally in TypeScript/Node.js
Collaborative by default - you'll partner constantly with backend, web, and mobile developers
Exposure to Playwright (web E2E) and Vitest (backend/unit), so you can work closely with your web automation counterpart
Comfort reading someone else's test suite, extending it with new coverage, and debugging why a test broke
Experience working in a fast-moving, still-forming engineering organization
The annual base salary range for this position is as follow, plus equity and benefits:
SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC Metro: $136,000 - $159,000 USD
All other US Locations: $122,000 - $143,000 USD
Canada: $124,000 - $145,000 CAD
The ranges displayed reflect the target for new hire salaries, and within each range, individual pay is determined by your skills and experience, as well as relevant education. Your recruiter can share more and answer questions about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
Salary is just one component of Quo’s total compensation package. Your total rewards package will include equity, extensive medical coverage, a monthly lifestyle stipend, and a flexible PTO policy.
We're a remote-first company with a culture of trust, autonomy, and action. As we rapidly grow, we're intentionally building communities in a handful of hub cities while continuing to hire great talent wherever they happen to live. If you're looking for a place to do your best work, we'd love to hear from you.
And remember, there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. We're looking for optimists with grit and determination, who are excited to face the challenges of a growing startup. Quo is the type of company where you can grow, and we encourage you to apply for this role even if you don't think you meet all the requirements.
We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment. It is important that you are able to bring your authentic self to work every day. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. #LI-Remote #PostLI
Quo is a cloud-based business phone system that helps startups and small businesses manage calls and texts across devices. It provides local and toll-free numbers, call and text from any device, group messaging, and the ability to share inbound numbers across a team. Key features include call routing to up to 10 team members, analytics, call recording, and multi-tool integrations, all under a subscription model. Data from the analytics helps teams make smarter decisions, while privacy features keep personal numbers separate. Quo is designed to be quick to set up and easy to use, with strong support for remote teams and workers in sectors like real estate and recruiting. Its goal is to enable small businesses to communicate more efficiently, scale their operations, and grow by using data-driven insights and seamless collaboration across devices and markets.
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