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Curriculum Associates is hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer II. The role involves collaborating with experienced QA members to review, automate, and execute test cases, both manual and automated, for specific feature areas while documenting defects. The engineer will also support testing during critical incidents reported by the Support Escalations team.

Highlights

Review and determine test cases for automation or manual testing with senior QA team members.
Execute manual and automation testing and document defects to minimize development churn.
Author automated test cases within established test frameworks.
Support testing of critical incident reports from the Support Escalations team.
Must have strong knowledge of functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and risk-based testing techniques.
Expertise in microservices testing, including API testing (REST, gRPC) and service-to-service authentication (OAuth, JWT).
Hands-on experience with UI testing frameworks such as Selenium and Playwright and understanding of responsive design and cross-browser testing.
Proficient in automation frameworks (Python, Pytest, Playwright) with experience in CI/CD pipelines.
Ability to test asynchronous flows involving Kafka or similar message brokers and familiarity with event-driven architecture.
Strong debugging and analytical skills using tools like Postman, Kafdrop, and Logstash.
Good-to-have skills include AI/ML knowledge, performance/load testing, cloud and containerization (AWS, Docker), observability/monitoring (Splunk, Datadog), security testing awareness, scripting for data validation, and version control with Git/GitHub/GitLab.
Requires 3+ years of combined education and industry experience in software testing.

Quality Assurance Engineer II Full Description

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 accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. 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.

Essential duties/responsibilities:

Work with more experienced QA team members to review 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 your own feature area and carefully document
defects to prevent churn with development.
Work with more experienced QA team members to author automated test cases within the
proper test frameworks.
Work with more experienced QA members to provide support for testing when critical incident reports are handed down by our Support Escalations team

Required Job Skills and Abilities:

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.
Ability to comprehend and explain semi-complex systems and ability to understand how
changes in one area can affect other parts of the system.

Must-Haves

Multiple Testing Techniques

Strong knowledge of Functional, Integration, Regression testing.
Knowledge of exploratory testing and risk-based testing.

Microservices Testing Expertise

Strong experience in testing distributed microservices architectures.
Knowledge of API testing (REST, gRPC) and contract testing.
Familiarity with service-to-service authentication (OAuth, JWT, etc.).

Frontend Testing

Hands-on experience with UI testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright or any javascript based framework).
Understanding of responsive design and cross-browser testing.

Automation Skills

Proficiency in at least one automation framework (Python, Pytest or Playwright).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and test automation integration.

API & Async Flow Testing

Expertise in testing asynchronous flows (Kafka or similar).
Familiarity with message brokers and event-driven architecture.

Strong Debugging & Analytical Skills

Ability to analyze logs, trace issues across services, and use tools like Postman, Kafdrop, or Logstash.

Good-to-Haves:AI/ML Knowledge

Basic understanding of ML concepts (training vs inference, accuracy metrics).
Familiarity with testing fairness, bias, and explainability in AI models.

AI/ML Application Testing

Exposure to testing AI/ML-based applications (model validation, inference testing).
Ability to validate data pipelines and model integration in production.

Performance & Load Testing

Experience with tools like JMeter or Locust.

Cloud & Containerization

Exposure to AWS services.
Knowledge of Docker for environment setup.

Observability & Monitoring

Familiarity with tools like Splunk, Datadog for monitoring applications.

Security Testing

Awareness of common vulnerabilities (like XSS etc) and API security best practices.

Scripting & Data Validation

Ability to write scripts for data validation and test data generation.

Version Control & Collaboration

• Experience with Git, GitHub/GitLab, and Agile methodologies.

Required Education and Experience: Combination of education and industry experience amounting to 3+ years of experience software testing.

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