Project Leadership: Keep team projects on track, demonstrating strong ownership and initiative, while effectively managing interactions with cross-functional partner groups.
Technical Estimation & Strategy: Independently and accurately estimate the QA level of effort (costing) for projects, considering maintenance, timelines, and business pressures.
Requirement Analysis & Design Feedback: Deeply understand and analyze user stories, product specifications, and requirements to ensure testability. Provide critical feedback on functional issues, acceptance criteria, and design flaws early in the development lifecycle.
Testing & Debugging: Design and execute comprehensive tests, and debug complex issues, in possibly unfamiliar areas of the application.
AI Tooling: Proactively integrate AI tools into your QA workflows to improve efficiency and accuracy, while evaluating and recommending specific testing tools (e.g., self-healing scripts, AI-driven test generation) to increase team velocity.
Testing AI Features: Validate AI-driven educational features, such as personalized learning paths or automated grading systems, ensuring accuracy and bias mitigation.
Automation & Code Quality: Create complex test scripts, and conduct high-quality code reviews for automated scripts with actionable feedback.
Documentation: Develop thorough test plans that prioritize maintainability and address immediate business needs. Utilize LLMs to generate test data, summarize bug reports, and create initial drafts of test documentation.
Defect Management: Conduct in-depth defect analysis to identify root causes and trends, improving overall product quality.
Support: support customers by triaging user-reported issues.

Requirements

5+ years of professional experience in functional manual testing.
Expert Knowledge: Expert understanding of core QA concepts, testing strategies, and the software test cycle process.
Automation Proficiency: Deep experience with functional automation tools (Playwright, Selenium, and JUnit, etc.)
AI Tooling: Proven ability to use AI tools for test automation, bug triage, and test data generation to streamline repetitive tasks.
Communication & Influence: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a track record of contributing materially outside of individual work to assist the wider team.
Debugging Skills: Strong ability to solve technical issues in both familiar and unfamiliar functionality.
Work Style: Excellent attention to detail, high accountability, and the ability to handle problems from start to finish with an appropriate response.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Meaningful equity
Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
One Medical membership (in participating locations)
Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)
Paid holidays
Paid bereavement leave
Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
Commuter and FSA plans

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

functional manual testingQA conceptstesting strategiessoftware test cycle processfunctional automation toolsPlaywrightSeleniumJUnittest automationdefect analysis

Soft Skills

project leadershipcommunicationinfluenceattention to detailaccountabilityproblem-solvinginitiativecollaborationcritical feedbackcustomer support