Duolingo
QA Specialist, New Graduate
🇺🇸
New York, NY
🕑
Full-Time
💰
$68K - $78K
💻
Quality Assurance
🗓️
January 22nd, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
Duolingo is hiring a QA Specialist, New Graduate. The role involves supporting manual testing of new features across multiple platforms, executing sanity checks on releases, writing detailed bug reports, and collaborating closely with engineers to ensure high-quality learning experiences. This position emphasizes active participation in QA processes and advocating for user-centric feature validation.
Highlights
- Manually test new software features on iOS, Android, and Web platforms, including regression, exploratory, and acceptance testing.
- Execute sanity checks on release and branch builds and validate bug fixes before and after deployment.
- Write clear, reproducible bug reports and collaborate with engineers to diagnose issues.
- Prioritize testing efforts based on potential learner impact within assigned projects.
- Contribute to and follow established QA processes, documentation, and procedures.
- Collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams involving designers, product managers, and engineers.
- Required to have graduated recently (December 2025) or graduating in Spring 2026 with strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Salary range: $68,000 - $78,000 USD, with equity compensation and benefits available.
- Exceptional candidates may have a GPA of 3.5+ and a Duolingo streak.
- Work focuses on education products serving half a billion learners globally in a mission-driven environment.
QA Specialist, New Graduate Full Description
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
:brain: You will...
- Manually support the testing of new features across iOS, Android, and Web, including regression, exploratory, and acceptance testing
- Execute sanity checks on Duolingo release and branch builds, and help validate bug fixes before and after deployment
- Write clear, detailed, and reproducible bug reports, and collaborate with engineers and teammates to help diagnose issues
- Learn Duolingo products deeply and ask thoughtful questions about expected behavior, edge cases, and learner experience
- Identify potential quality issues and raise risks with guidance from more senior QA teammates
- Help prioritize testing tasks within your assigned projects, focusing on areas with high learner impact
- Advocate for Duolingo learners by evaluating features for correctness, clarity, and usability
- Follow and contribute to existing QA processes, documentation, and procedures, while learning how quality scales across teams
- Collaborate within cross-functional teams, communicating progress, questions, and blockers clearly in a fast-paced environment
:check: You have...
- Graduated in December 2025 or will be graduating in Spring 2026
- Friendly, approachable, and easy to work with
- Curious and motivated by doing high-quality work, not career ladder climbing
- Comfortable breaking things and paying close attention to details
- A clear communicator who can collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers
- Creative and able to think outside the box
- Adaptable and resilient in a fast-changing, sometimes messy environment
- Comfortable speaking up, asking questions, and engaging with a quirky team culture
:star: Exceptional candidates will have...
- A GPA of 3.5+
- A Duolingo streak
:heart: Why you’ll love working here…
- Language learning opportunities
- Catered in-house lunches and breakfast
- Company-wide Hackathon
- PTO and company holidays
- Frequent company-wide dinners, monthly celebrations, social clubs, and so much more
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
Salary Range:
$68,000—$78,000 USD
Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@duolingo.com.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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