Ignite Reading
Quality Engineer
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ March 5th, 2024
CI/CD Java POSTMANIgnite Reading teaches kids to read.
Today, 67% of students and 82% of low-income students can’t read at grade level by the end of third grade. That’s when you are supposed to go from learning to read to reading to learn. It’s America’s number one education crisis and we know how to fix it.
Ignite teaches kids to read by providing 15 minutes a day of 1:1 virtual reading instruction. We focus on the reading fundamentals (letters, phonics, and sight words) kids need to master so they can decode a sentence. Our program accelerates reading progress 2.4x and we are disrupting how schools think about reading instruction.
Ignite launched our first school implementation in the fall of 2021. Sixteen months later, we will have grown our number of schools and students 35x.
Ignite Reading is a mission-driven public benefit corporation. We believe we can do well for our team members and shareholders while we solve one of the nation’s biggest challenges. We believe we will be more successful with a diverse team and are seeking candidates who have lived experience related to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Your Role
Ignite uses technology to enable the delivery of our virtual tutoring services, maximize the learning of our students, and accelerate our ability to scale. To this end, our engineering team is focused on four key technology needs:
- A tutoring logistics platform, which enables us to schedule, conduct and report on our tutoring sessions.
- A tutor workflow platform, which lets tutors know exactly what to teach each student every day.
- An extended learning application, which enables students to practice what they learn in their tutoring sessions after they return to the classroom or go home at night.
- An AI/ML implementation, which will enable us to ensure lesson fidelity as we scale.
The Quality Engineer will play a pivotal role in ensuring the high quality, reliability, and performance of our software applications and products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and execute testing strategies, and to identify and address quality issues early in the development cycle. Your attention to detail, technical expertise, and commitment to excellence will contribute to the success of our products and the satisfaction of our customers.
- Collaborate with product managers, developers, and designers to understand project requirements and develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, and testing strategies.
- Design and execute manual and automated test scripts to verify software functionality, performance, security, and user experience.
- Identify and report defects and issues, and work closely with development teams to ensure timely resolution and retesting.
- Participate in design and code reviews to provide input on testability, quality, and potential improvements.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of automated testing frameworks, tools, and processes to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
- Perform regression testing, load testing, and scalability testing to ensure our applications meet performance benchmarks and deliver seamless experiences.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate testing into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Investigate and reproduce customer-reported issues, and work with customer support to provide timely resolutions.
- Stay up-to-date with industry best practices, testing methodologies, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the quality assurance process.
- Act as a strong advocate for quality throughout the development lifecycle and promote a culture of quality within the organization.
Competencies
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Proven experience (3+ years) as a Quality Engineer or similar role, with a track record of implementing effective testing strategies and methodologies.
- Solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and best practices.
- Proficiency in writing and executing test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
- Experience with Selenium or other frontend testing tools
- Experience with API testing and handling json data using tools/libraries such as Postman, RestAssured, etc
- 3+ years of programming experience (we use Java, Maven, TestNG)
- Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices and tools.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.
Additional Details
- At Ignite! Reading, we believe in building and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where all applicants are considered for employment without attention to color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
- We are a virtual organization with headquarters in the California Bay Area.
- We offer competitive compensation, equity, and generous benefits packages.
Apply
- If you are passionate about quality engineering and have the skills and experience we are looking for, we would love to hear from you. Please apply with your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are the right candidate for this role.
At Ignite Reading, we believe in building and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where all applicants are considered for employment without attention to color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements. We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested!
We are seeking candidates who have lived experience related to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are a virtual organization with headquarters in the California Bay Area.
