Company Description
Candidly was founded in 2016 to flip the script on what it means to plan, borrow, repay, and save for college. Today, we’re the category leader with the market’s most comprehensive AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform. We partner with hundreds of top employers, financial institutions, and retirement record keepers, positioning Candidly to serve more than 35 million Americans.
We’re already achieving incredible results — to date, we’ve helped our users get on track to eliminate more than $1.8B in student debt and pay off their loans 175,000 years quicker — and we’re seeking movers, shakers, innovators, and problem solvers to help take our mission even further.
Candidly is a high-growth, Series B startup, funded by leading investors including Altos Ventures, Aflac, Salesforce Ventures, UBS, Equal Opportunity Ventures, Impact Engine, Rethink Impact, Unum, and Cercano Management. Our fully remote, international team of 70 (and counting) includes alumni from Google, UBS, Twitter, Plaid, Prudential, LendingTree, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and more.
Job Description
We are seeking a detail-oriented QA Tester to join our team and ensure the delivery of high-quality software. In this role, you will leverage your experience in manual and automation testing, apply strong analytical skills, and work with tools like JIRA, SQL, and test case design. You will collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to identify defects and enhance software functionality.
Responsibilities
- Develop, execute, and maintain test cases, test plans, and test scripts based on project requirements.
- Perform functional, UI, regression, and cross-browser testing to identify and document defects.
- Log and track issues in JIRA, working closely with developers and product managers to ensure timely resolution.
- Write and execute basic MySQL and Postgres queries to validate backend data and ensure database integrity.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts using Cypress to improve test efficiency.
- Conduct API testing using tools like Postman to validate endpoints and data flows.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to define test strategies and ensure software quality.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning and daily standups.
- Provide clear and detailed documentation for test cases, test results, and bug reports.
- Ability to work standard business hours aligned with U.S. Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific Time Zones.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software testing, including manual and automation testing.
- Strong understanding of test case design, execution, and defect tracking.
- Hands-on experience with JIRA for logging and managing bugs.
- Experience with SQL and ability to write basic queries for data validation.
- Knowledge of API testing using tools like Postman.
- Experience with AI testing methodologies.
- Familiarity with functional, regression, UI, and exploratory testing.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills for documenting and explaining defects clearly.
Preferred (Nice-to-Have) Skills
- Experience with automation testing using Cypress.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub.
- Understanding of financial technology, particularly student loans.
Background and EEOC
Candidly offers for employment are conditioned upon satisfactory completion of our employment screening process (including, but not limited to, a review of past employment and education records, background investigation, and/or credit check & fingerprints).
Candidly strives to foster an environment where every employee can succeed. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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What We Do
Candidly is an AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform that addresses the full lifecycle of education expenses and empowers people to make simultaneous progress on paying down student debt and building wealth. Candidly partners with leading employers, financial services companies serving the workplace like 401(k) and 403(b) recordkeepers, financial institutions, retirement plan advisors and more, to embed its experience anywhere a user works, banks, or experiences financial services. The platform supports flexible integration options including outlink, SSO, widget integration, and APIs that meet partners where they really are in resourcing, technical debt, and product resourcing/roadmap capacity. Candidly supports multiple branding options including white labeling and co-branding. Candidly understands that education is one of the largest investments most people will make in a lifetime — whether for themselves or their children. Candidly brings compassion, authenticity, and confidence to Americans as they navigate their higher education pursuits — past, present and future. Candidly is backed by leading venture capital and strategic investors including Aflac, Equal Opportunity Ventures, Impact Engine, Rethink Impact, Salesforce Ventures, UBS, Unum, and Vulcan Capital. For more information, visit www.getcandidly.com
