QA Engineer I

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: 

• Review your story's acceptance criteria, business requirements, and UI/UX designs. Work with product, development and your senior QE partners to develop an efficient test approach that provides wide coverage.
• Review the development implementation designs and ask questions in areas where additional clarity is needed.
• Acts as a contributor to test development within your team. Author high value test plans and cases that line up with the acceptance criteria, business requirements, or UI/UX designs. Review and provide feedback on other team members’ test plans and test cases to ensure they line up with the requirements and Development’s approach to implement.
• Work with Senior 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 Senior QA team members to author automated test cases within the proper test frameworks.
• Continuously learn more about testing methodologies, techniques, and tooling; automated testing; the system under test; the business domain; and development technologies and system design.
• Work with senior 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. 
• Ability on where to look and how to debug or troubleshoot any software “issue” anywhere in the system under test. 
• Ability to articulate a software issue including the situations it does and does not occur in. 
• Ability to automate in a coding language to a novice level of competency.  
• Ability to develop SQL scripts to an Novice level of competency. 
• Ability to find creative and elusive defects in your feature under test.
• Novice knowledge of how to test for WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) compliance. 
  
  

Required Education and Experience: 

Combination of education and industry experience amounting to 2 years of experience software testing.