Senior QA Software Engineer

Summary

Join Kiddom, a leading educational platform, as a Sr. QA Engineer. You will be a key contributor, leading a team focused on testing our products. This role involves developing and executing test strategies, writing test scripts, and performing manual and automated tests. You will collaborate closely with content developers, application developers, and product teams. Success requires strong manual testing skills, excellent communication, and a commitment to quality. Kiddom offers a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive health benefits, paid time off, and paid family leave.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional experience in functional manual testing
• Excellent communication, verbal and written skills
• Experience with bug tracking software
• Excellent attention to detail, with an ability to multitask and meet deadlines
• Commitment to developing quality software, mentorship, training, and supporting teammates
• Ability to work in both a team environment and independently
• A strong understanding of the software test cycle process
• Ability to work as part of a collaborative team in a fast-paced environment
• Motivated and responsible individual who strives to exceed expectations
• Sincere interest in working at a startup and scaling with the company as we grow

Responsibilities

• Work closely with our content developers to support ingestion efforts
• Work with application developers and product teams to set feature roadmap and plan release deadlines
• Partnering closely with various stakeholders with projects around content
• Understand and analyze user stories, requirements, or product specifications
• Provide feedback about functional issues as appropriate
• Provide feedback about Acceptance Criteria and design issues as appropriate
• Communicate and triage discovered bugs
• Test and debug pre-released software for defects
• Perform smoke testing, regression testing, verifying claimed bug fixes
• Assist with manual functional testing for all projects
• Write/Edit test cases and test plans
• Write/edit automated scripts for functional testing
• Assist with load and performance testing
• Support customers by triaging user-reported issues

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Health benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
• 10 paid sick days per year
• Unlimited vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year
• Paid family leave for eligible employees