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!

Essential duties/responsibilities:

Collaborate with developers, product owners, UI designers, and others in QA to design test framework
Apply QA best practices and grow test automation coverage across business systems
Measure QA progress through key performance indicators Analyze a feature and identify test coverage, as well as risks the team has not considered yet
Report results in the dashboard in a continuous integration and continuous delivery model by creating, executing, and maintaining regression chain jobs (Enterprise CI/CD), ranging from preparing the QA stage, database refresh, smoke testing, and parallel regression runs
Create testing strategy to identify test cases best for automation vs. manual testing
Create devious tests that uncover unexpected problems
Work with teams to describe defects in sufficient detail for a developer to understand and reproduce, and for business owners to understand user impact

Required Job Skills and Abilities:

Testing– you have studied and practiced a variety of test frameworks, techniques, and methodologies, and can compare pros and cons of each scenario
Test automation– you are proficient in test automation to a level where you can discuss different approaches and can pick a specific design based on the product under test. To support this, you also have advanced knowledge of at least one modern programming language and coding best practices
Agile software development– you understand the common methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and can articulate how strong test automation can best support the team in that context
Self-motivated learning– you will be able to describe your approaches to gaining new knowledge and skills, and how you apply them to become a better engineer
Mentoring– you love to share knowledge and are good at it. You are comfortable training a new team member on the framework you are building, demonstrating interesting tools and techniques you have found to be effective to your team, and teaching inexperienced engineers the fundamentals of testing
Enterprise-level applications – you understand the key challenges related to testing enterprise-level managed applications responsible for day-to-day business team operations and can articulate your experience in this context. You are comfortable drawing an architecture diagram of the system under test
Web applications – you understand the key challenges related to building and testing a robust web application responsible for lead generation supporting both desktop and mobile devices and can articulate your experience in this context. You are comfortable drawing an architecture diagram of the system under test

Required Education and Experience:

3+ years’ experience in creating test plans, for manual and automation testing, to support test strategy working in a quick 2-week sprints as a part of agile scrum team as well as extended timeline as an individual contributor on a project team.
5+ years’ experience in testing and analyzing automated testing failures in SaaS platforms such as Salesforce (SFDC), Rootstock, Softeon, Workday, as well as custom tools built in-house and Sitecore CMS.
3+ years’ experience with test automation tools such as Copado Robotics Testing (CRT), Selenium, and Playwright

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