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Senior Quality Engineer

Curriculum Associates

Karnataka, India (On-site)

Senior Quality Engineer

4 Months ago • All levels • Quality Assurance

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html

javascript

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Job Description

Senior QA Engineer for i-Ready platform, must have strong testing methodologies, collaboration skills, and ability to comprehend complex systems.

Must have:

Testing Methodologies
Collaboration Skills
Complex Systems
JavaScript Expertise

Good to have:

SQL Scripts
UI Automation
Agile Methodologies
Mentorship Skills

Perks:

Adaptive Learning
Actionable Data

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About the job

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!

About the Role:

As a QA Engineer, you will help us achieve our mission of enabling student success through adaptive learning and placing actionable data in the hands of teachers through our i-Ready platform. You will be working directly on an agile team to help ensure each release of i-Ready’s products achieves the level of quality expected of our products and services. You will be leveraging your insights and experiences to the team to provide guidance to your team members.

Essential duties/responsibilities:

Review each feature’s acceptance criteria, business requirements, and UI/UX designs. Ask questions on these requirements to find missing aspects of the future product and recommend your testing approach based on that set of requirements.

Review the developments implementation designs for each feature and recommend suggestions to ensure the features testability.

Acts as a primary contributor to all test development within your team. Author high value test plans and cases that go beyond the acceptance criteria, business requirements, or UI/UX designs. Review and approve other team members’ test plans and test cases to ensure they line up with the requirements and Development’s approach to implement. Review and approve other team members automated test cases via PR reviews.

Review and gain approval from the rest of the agile team the specific test cases that are to be automated, and which ones will need to be manually tested.

Execute all manual and automation testing for that feature area and carefully document defects to prevent churn with development.

Author automated test cases within the proper test frameworks.

Provide a test coverage assessment (manual and automated) for your team's different project areas.

Provide mentorship and oversight to less experienced team members as they perform their own job responsibilities.

Fully understand your teams’ agile commitments and release timeline to accurately assess release readiness and vocalize any risks to the delivery schedule. As needed, represent your QA teams' and their charter in cross-team planning events and roadmap discussions.

Proactively monitor and communicate critical incident reports in production handed down by our Support Escalations team and work with Product Management, Development and QA Management to see the solution through to completion.

Required Skills:

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.

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

Possesses a strong ability to comprehend and explain complex systems and ability to understand how changes in one area can affect other parts of the system.

Understands where to look and how to debug or troubleshoot any software issue anywhere in the system under test.

Can articulate a software issue including the situations it does and does not occur in.

Can develop in a coding language to an Intermediate level of competency.

Possesses the ability to develop SQL scripts to an Intermediate level of competency.

Ability to teach more junior team members so they learn what it takes to grow into a Senior as well.

Can find creative and elusive defects throughout the system under test.

Solid understanding of web applications is necessary – fluency in HTML and CSS and firm knowledge of HTTP and web services are expected. Knowledge and mastery of JavaScript is a must.

Can write UI and Service Layer automation in JavaScript and are comfortable doing so in any JavaScript automation framework.

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About The Company

Curriculum Associates

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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 equitable learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our data-driven, research-backed cloud technology products transform how students learn, creating an environment where every child can thrive and rise to their potential.

Based in North Billerica, Massachusetts, and with offices and remote employees throughout the United States, Curriculum Associates has been awarded many recognitions as a top employer. 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. If this speaks to you, we welcome you to explore opportunities on our team.