Senior Quality Engineer

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Senior Quality Engineer oversees quality practices and processes for Education Solutions Engineering’s Agile team(s). You will be required to oversee all aspects of software and product testing within the team. This may include developing manual and automation test strategies, drawing up test documents, identifying faults, and reviewing QA results. The role requires experience in analytics, high-level problem‑solving skills, and the ability to identify risks and communicate them.

Responsibilities

• Serves as Quality Engineer Lead on one or more projects.
• Works closely with Quality Engineers to implement automated / performance tests.
• Defines and coordinates test activities across multiple teams.
• Ensures test results are analyzed, documented, and reported accurately.
• Based on test execution result analysis, opens defects as necessary and works with engineering teams for resolution.
• Identifies patterns of failures or practices contributing to overall product quality and works with other leaders to refine and improve development and quality practices.
• Engages with Product Owners and Engineers to document test scenarios and test plans.
• Creates and/or guides other quality engineers in developing Test Automation scripts using tools to test UI, API, Database layers.
• Mentors Associate and Staff Quality Engineers to build scale and organization growth.

Qualifications

• Excellent understanding of how modern web and mobile applications interface and communicate with web services and other back-end systems.
• Excellent analytical skills, including debugging, triage, and root cause analysis.
• Solid communication skills and the ability to interact with software developers, product managers, and business leaders.
• Strong understanding of Agile product development and practices.
• Deep knowledge in test strategy development and test design.
• Test automation skills in one or more test tools and frameworks for both front end and back end testing.
• Proficient with modern source repositories such as Git / Github / Bitbucket and associated workflow and code/branch/version management and release strategies.
• Knowledge of applicable development and scripting languages, such as Javascript, Typescript, Java, python, or others.
• Ability to work develop and/or modify scripts to integrate tests and tools into CI/CD tool chains.
• Understanding of cloud and infrastructure, AWS in particular, and leveraging cloud services for quality engineering tooling.

Experience

• Experience specifically with technology product development and delivery in an Agile, continuous development and delivery environment.
• Defined and managed test suites for various purposes, e.g. smoke, regression, BVT/CVT, etc.
• Front End Testing Experience.
• Back End API Testing Experience.
• Experience with automation coding practices and building/modifying frameworks for integrated solution.
• Experience with Postman, Jira, Jenkins, Cucumber, Cypress are a plus.
• Experience working in EdTech is a plus.
• Experience with REACT based Web application.

Education

BS in technical or engineering discipline.

Benefits

• Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan).
• Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions.
• Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees.
• Generous Parental Leave Program.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount.

Job Details

• Time Type: Full time
• Job Type: Regular
• Job Family Group: Information Technology
• Location Region/State: New York
• Compensation: Annual Salary: 130,000.00