Sr Quality Assurance Engineer

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

Essential duties / responsibilities :

1. Review your story’s acceptance criteria, business requirements, and UI / UX designs. Work with

product, development, and your QE peers to develop an efficient test approach that provides

wide coverage.

2. Review the development implementation designs and ask questions in areas where additional

clarity is needed.

3. Acts as a contributor to test development within your team. Author high value test plans and

cases that line up with the acceptance criteria, business requirements, or UI / UX designs. Review

and provide feedback on other team members’ test plans and test cases to ensure they line up

with the requirements and Development’s approach to implement.

4. Work with more experienced QA team members to review the specific test cases that are to be

automated, and which ones will need to be manually tested.

5. Execute all manual and automation testing for your own feature area and carefully document

defects to prevent churn with development.

6. Work with more experienced QA team members to author automated test cases within the

proper test frameworks.

7. Continuously learn more about testing methodologies, techniques, and tooling; automated

testing; the system under test; the business domain; and development technologies and system

design.

8. Work with more experienced QA members to provide support for testing when critical incident

reports are handed down by our Support Escalations team

Required Job Skills and Abilities :

1. Knowledge of multiple testing techniques and methodologies at an advanced level of

competency and a keen sense of when to apply different techniques and methodologies and in

which types of scenarios.

2. Must have strong collaboration skills with cross-functional peers and fellow QA team members.

3. Ability to comprehend and explain semi-complex systems and ability to understand how

changes in one area can affect other parts of the system.

4. Ability on where to look and how to debug or troubleshoot any software “issue” anywhere in the system under test.

5. Ability to articulate a software issue including the situations it does and does not occur in.

6. Ability to automate in the Javascript language to an intermediate level of competency.

7. Exposure to Playwright.js as an automation framework or any other JS based framework that makes use of promises and / or async / await is preferred.

8. Exposure to API automation against a GraphQL or REST API layer is ideal.

9. Ability to develop SQL scripts to a novice level of competency

10. Ability to find creative and elusive defects in your feature under test.

Required Education and Experience : Combination of education and industry experience amounting to 7+ years of experience software testing.