QA Engineer

About First Principles First Principles is a product consultancy that builds radical value for ambitious, emerging technology startups. We provide product leadership and strategic support, blending modern technology with thoughtful design to shape tomorrow's products. We were founded by startup and enterprise leaders who have built and scaled products across many industries. We work with clients in four ways: AI-first PM training and certification, product coaching, fractional product leadership through CPOs and PMs who set vision and keep roadmaps on track, and AI-first product squads that go from concept to prototype in days instead of months. Our team runs on curiosity, empathy, and continuous improvement. The Product You'll be working on a text fundraising application that helps political and non-profit groups raise money for their campaigns and causes. It handles the full lifecycle: registration with carriers, phone number provisioning and management, message building and sending, and detailed metrics and tracking. The product is at an inflection point. We spent the last year and a half building the first version and running it as an internal tool. Our client is a texting firm, and we built this to replace their existing platform with something that costs half as much and does exactly what they need. We're now building differentiating features and engineering for scale as we prepare to launch it as a standalone SaaS product over the next year, with plans to roll it out to our client's own clients so they can run campaigns themselves by the end of 2026. The Role We're looking for someone who sits at the intersection of QA, engineering, and product: an expert in test automation who also has the product sense to understand how the application actually gets used, not just how it works mechanically. In practice, you and the product manager should become the two people who understand real customer flows and what correct results look like better than anyone else on th