Quality Assurance Engineer II

At Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to diversity in thinking, making our products better for teachers and students. If you read this job description, feel energized by what you see here, and believe you could bring passion and commitment to the role, but you aren’t sure you meet every qualification, please apply! Above all, we are looking for the right person!

Summary:

At Curriculum Associates, we believe a diverse team leads to diversity in thinking, making our products

better for teachers and students. If you read this job description, feel energized by what you see here,

and believe you could bring passion and commitment to the role, but you aren’t sure you meet every

qualification, please apply! Above all, we are looking for the right person!

We are seeking an experienced professional software automation engineer to help us achieve our

mission of continuous business value delivery and serve as a strategic partner on the Business Systems

team. This is an exciting role serving as the QA Engineer to help expand our test automation coverage,

improve processes, and collaborate with fellow Quality Assurance Specialists and Quality Assurance

Engineers on the IT team.

It is unlikely that anyone with less than 5 years’ relevant experience will be suitable for this role, but we

have been pleasantly surprised before. Experience in manual UI testing is a must. You’ll be asked to

conduct manual and automation testing as part of a team or to be the sole automation engineer on a

project reporting to an IT Director.

Essential duties/responsibilities:

1. Collaborate with developers, product owners, UI designers, and others in QA to design test

framework

2. Apply QA best practices and grow test automation coverage across business systems

3. Measure QA progress through key performance indicators

4. Analyze a feature and identify test coverage, as well as risks the team has not considered yet

5. Report results in the dashboard in a continuous integration and continuous delivery model by

creating, executing, and maintaining regression chain jobs (Enterprise CI/CD), ranging from

preparing the QA stage, database refresh, smoke testing, and parallel regression runs

6. Create testing strategy to identify test cases best for automation vs. manual testing

7. Create devious tests that uncover unexpected problems

8. Work with teams to describe defects in sufficient detail for a developer to understand and

reproduce, and for business owners to understand user impact

Required Job Skills and Abilities:

1. Testing– you have studied and practiced a variety of test frameworks, techniques, and

methodologies, and can compare pros and cons of each scenario

2. Test automation– you are proficient in test automation to a level where you can discuss

different approaches and can pick a specific design based on the product under test. To support

this, you also have advanced knowledge of at least one modern programming language and

coding best practices

3. Agile software development– you understand the common methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

and can articulate how strong test automation can best support the team in that context

4. Self-motivated learning– you will be able to describe your approaches to gaining new knowledge and skills, and how you apply them to become a better engineer 5. Mentoring– you love to share knowledge and are good at it. You are comfortable training a new team member on the framework you are building, demonstrating interesting tools and techniques you have found to be effective to your team, and teaching inexperienced engineers the fundamentals of testing 6. Enterprise-level applications – you understand the key challenges related to testing enterprise-level managed applications responsible for day-to-day business team operations and can articulate your experience in this context. You are comfortable drawing an architecture diagram of the system under test 7. Web applications – you understand the key challenges related to building and testing a robust web application responsible for lead generation supporting both desktop and mobile devices and can articulate your experience in this context. You are comfortable drawing an architecture diagram of the system under test 8. Ability to work within the 8AM – 7PM EST window. Required Education and

Experience: 1. 3+ years’ experience in creating test plans, for manual and automation testing, to support test strategy working in a quick 2-week sprints as a part of agile scrum team as well as extended timeline as an individual contributor on a project team. 2. 5+ years’ experience in testing and analyzing automated testing failures in SaaS platforms such as Salesforce (SFDC), Rootstock, Softeon, Workday, as well as custom tools built in-house and Sitecore CMS. 3. 3+ years’ experience with test automation tools such as Copado Robotics Testing (CRT), Selenium, and Playwright