What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Engineer position at Linq?
Job Title: QA Engineer
Location: Birmingham, AL
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time – In Office
Reports To: CTO
Compensation Range: $55,000 – $85,000/year Stock & Benefits
About the Role
We’re hiring a QA Engineer to build out the test automation infrastructure at Linq from the ground up. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our products are rock-solid — across web, mobile, and API surfaces. This is a highly cross-functional role where you’ll partner closely with engineering and product to create a culture of quality, speed, and confidence in every release.
You’ll be our first dedicated QA Engineer, so you’ll have lots of ownership and room to shape both the tooling and the process. Expect a healthy mix of writing tests, investigating bugs, automating flows, and helping us release faster and safer.
This is an in-office role in Birmingham, AL.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automated tests for our React web app, native mobile apps, and APIs
- Set up and manage test frameworks and infrastructure for frontend, backend, and mobile testing
- Write and execute test cases across new and existing features
- Use GitHub Actions to integrate testing into CI/CD workflows
- Investigate, reproduce, and document bugs from internal testing and customer reports
- Help ensure high test coverage and quick feedback loops
- Collaborate with engineers and PMs to define testing strategy early in the development lifecycle
- Contribute to documentation around test strategy, systems, and known issues
What We’re Looking For
- Experience building test automation from scratch
- Familiarity with tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, or similar
- Comfort testing across web, mobile, and API layers
- Experience with API testing tools and techniques (e.g. Postman, REST Assured, etc.)
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating tests into automated workflows
- Clear communicator — especially when reporting bugs or collaborating cross-functionally
- Comfortable balancing automation and hands-on exploratory testing
Nice to Haves
- Experience working in distributed systems or testing them effectively
- Comfort writing or contributing to technical documentation
- Familiarity with testing performance, load, or edge cases
- Previous experience as the first or early QA hire at a startup
Why Join Linq?
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Competitive PTO and holiday policies
- Stock options — share in the growth you help create
- Big ownership over our testing infrastructure and quality culture
- Collaborative, tight-knit team building fast and shipping often
- Live and work in Birmingham, AL — affordable cost of living, great food, and a growing tech scene
Salary : $55,000 - $85,000
