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Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.

Position Overview

Teaching Strategies is the leader in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector, providing the most widely used developmental assessment and curriculum system in the US, serving children from birth through 3rd grade. We are looking for a QA Engineer to help expand digital curriculum, assessment, and family communications solutions to accelerate learning outcomes for all kinds of children, teachers, and programs.

As a key member of our technology team, you will be a champion of quality and always put the needs of the user first. Developing automated tests will be how you spend much of your time. You will also be involved with some manual testing when necessary to meet the team's goals. You will radiate information about the quality state of the product and continuously find ways to make it better. You will work closely with developers, product managers, operations engineers, and other QA heroes to deliver meaningful updates every sprint. We need someone who has a knack for breaking stuff, knows a lot about QA but is always ready to learn more, and has a bias for action.

Specific Roles & Responsibilities:

• Validates changes to product primarily by developing, executing, and maintaining automated tests
• Performs manual and automated regression testing to help certify releases
• Finds, isolates, documents, and tracks bugs through resolution
• Actively participates in grooming, planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and reviews
• Conducts performance testing to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability
• Conducts accessibility testing to ensure the system works for everyone
• Verifies functionality via SQL queries and direct API calls

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant experience
• Minimum of three (3) years of hands-on web and/or mobile test automation experience
• Empathy, patience, rigor, grit and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely
• Highly collaborative work style
• Creativity and initiative to succeed on ambiguous problems
• Experience with the following technologies is a plus:
  • Selenium
  • Cucumber
  • Ruby
  • Jmeter / Blazemeter
  • Postman
  • Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
  • TestRail
  • Jenkins
• Keen interest in new technologies and languages and how to innovate with them
• Commitment to following security best practices

Why Teaching Strategies

At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.

Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!

Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:

• Competitive compensation package, including participating in our Employee Equity Appreciation Program
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children
• Flexible working environment
• Flexible paid time off
• Professional development and growth opportunities
• Tuition assistance
• Pre-tax medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• Health savings accounts with employer contributions
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Company-sponsored life, short and long term disability insurance
• Voluntary life and critical illness insurance
• Paid parental leave programs

Teaching Strategies, LLC is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, all Genders, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.