Powering Performance Marketplaces in Digital Media
QuinStreet is a pioneer in powering decentralized online marketplaces that match searchers and “research and compare” consumers with brands. We run these virtual- and private-label marketplaces in one of the nation’s largest media networks.
Our industry leading segmentation and AI-driven matching technologies help consumers find better solutions and brands faster. They allow brands to target and reach in-market customer prospects with pinpoint segment-by-segment accuracy, and to pay only for performance results.
Our campaign-results-driven matching decision engines and optimization algorithms are built from over 20 years and billions of dollars of online media experience.
We believe in:
- The direct measurability of digital media.
- Performance marketing. (We pioneered it.)
- The advantages of technology.
We bring all this together to deliver truly great results for consumers and brands in the world’s biggest channel.
Job Category
QuinStreet Home Services is looking for a detail-oriented QA Engineer to ensure product quality through a combination of manual exploratory testing and automated UI and API testing. You’ll collaborate closely with developers throughout the development lifecycle, design comprehensive test scenarios, investigate defects, and contribute to improving our testing processes and automation framework. This role is ideal for someone with strong analytical skills, a proactive mindset, and hands-on experience with modern testing tools and CI/CD workflows who is passionate about delivering reliable, high-quality products.
- Performing comprehensive manual and exploratory testing for new features to ensure they meet requirements and provide a great user experience.
- Developing and maintaining automated test scripts (UI and API) within the existing automation framework.
- Creating and executing test cases, plan test runs that combine manual scenarios with automated checks for full coverage.
- Collaborating with developers to identify testing requirements early and ensure high-quality product delivery.
- Monitoring and analyzing automated test results in the CI/CD pipeline, taking ownership of debugging failures and reporting defects.
- Contributing to the improvement of QA documentation, including test cases, bug reports, and internal testing instructions.
- Actively participating in team processes (PBRs, daily meeting, retrospective) to provide testing input, testing estimates and advocate for quality best practices.
- 3+ years of experience in manual testing methodologies, including test design, requirement analysis, and exploratory testing techniques.
- Proficiency in API testing, using both automated tools and manual clients.
- Strong analytical skills with a detail-oriented mindset for finding edge cases and documenting clear, reproducible bug reports.
- Knowledge of SQL and database basics, enabling you to verify data integrity and perform deeper backend testing.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Sentry, Grafana, Loki) to help investigate and reproduce production issues.
- Great communication skills and a proactive attitude toward collaborating with developers and stakeholders to resolve issues.
- Practical programming skills (TypeScript, JavaScript is a plus) and hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks (Playwright is a plus), with the ability to write and update existing automated tests.
- Experience with Git for version control.
- Basic understanding of Docker for running tests in containers.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., BitBucket, CircleCI), including the ability to run tests and investigate pipeline failures.
- Experience with performance, security, or reliability testing.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and testing strategies (AWS is a plus).
- Basic experience with Mobile testing and responsive web testing across different devices.
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Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience with manual testing methodologies, including test design, requirements analysis, and exploratory testing
- Proficiency in API testing using automated tools and manual clients
- Strong analytical and detail-oriented skills for identifying edge cases and documenting reproducible defects
- Knowledge of SQL and database fundamentals for data-integrity verification and backend testing
- Familiarity with Sentry, Grafana, and Loki monitoring and observability tools
- Strong communication skills and a proactive approach to collaborating with developers and stakeholders
- Practical programming skills in TypeScript; JavaScript experience is a plus
- Experience with modern test automation frameworks, preferably Playwright
- Experience with Git for version control
- Basic understanding of Docker for running tests in containers
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as Bitbucket or CircleCI, including investigating pipeline failures
- Experience with performance, security, or reliability testing
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and testing strategies, preferably AWS
- Basic experience with mobile testing and responsive web testing across devices
QuinStreet Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about QuinStreet and has not been reviewed or approved by QuinStreet.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and dedicated mental-health resources alongside an EAP, indicating a solid core benefits foundation. Company materials also cite multiple plan options and ancillary protections like life and disability insurance.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Company benefits outline paid company holidays and describe flexible or unlimited PTO practices in some areas. Guidance also references parental and other leaves with remote/flexible work norms supporting time-away usage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is available with a purchase discount and a lookback feature. This adds an additional wealth-building component accessible beyond base pay and bonus.
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What We Do
Powering Performance Marketplaces In Digital Media QuinStreet is a pioneer in powering decentralized online marketplaces that match searchers and “research and compare” consumers with brands. We run these virtual and private-label marketplaces in one of the nation’s largest media networks. Our industry leading segmentation and AI-driven matching technologies help consumers find better solutions and brands faster. They allow brands to target and reach in-market customer prospects with pinpoint segment-by-segment accuracy, and to pay only for performance results. Our campaign-results-driven matching decision engines and optimization algorithms are built from over 20 years and billions of dollars of online media experience. We believe in: - The direct measurability of digital media. - Performance marketing. (We pioneered it.) - The advantages of technology. We bring all of this together to deliver truly great results for consumers and brands in the world’s biggest channel.
Why Work With Us
We aren’t just in the business of building homes. We’re in the business of building careers. Modernize Home Services, believes in the professional and personal growth of each employee at every career stage. We offer role-specific improvement tools and resources needed to succeed in your current role, and the role you aspire to take on tomorrow.
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