[Remote] QA Engineer 2
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Frontline Education is a pioneer of school administration software purpose-built for K–12 districts. They are seeking a QA Engineer 2 to support engineering pods across various platforms, ensuring quality and reliability in software development through manual and automated testing.
Responsibilities
- Participate in discovery and refinement activities to ensure stories are testable and acceptance criteria are complete
- Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and validation approaches for assigned work
- Execute functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and API testing
- Identify and clearly communicate software defects and quality risks
- Contribute to improving testing practices and release confidence within the engineering pod
- Partner with Senior QA Engineers on larger initiatives and more complex testing scenarios
- Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests supporting frontend, backend, API, and integration testing
- Work with Software Engineers to incorporate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Utilize automation tools such as: Playwright, Selenium, Cypress or similar frameworks
- Contribute to testing cloud-native services and distributed platform capabilities
- Help maintain reliable automated test suites as the platform evolves
- Demonstrate awareness of performance, scalability, resiliency, and operational quality considerations
- Execute performance and load tests developed by the team
- Assist with analyzing test results and identifying potential performance concerns
- Contribute to validating operational readiness and production quality
- Partner closely with Software Engineers, Technical Leads, Product Managers, and Architects throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Participate in Design Sketch reviews, backlog grooming, and sprint ceremonies from a quality engineering perspective
- Communicate testing progress, quality risks, and validation results effectively
- Collaborate with Senior QA Engineers to improve engineering quality practices
- Foster a shared ownership mindset for software quality across the engineering pod
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 2-5 years of professional quality engineering or software testing experience
- Experience with manual and automated software testing
- Experience testing web applications, REST APIs, and distributed systems
- Experience with modern testing tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar frameworks
- Working knowledge of API testing, integration testing, regression testing, and CI/CD concepts
- Familiarity with performance testing concepts and operational quality considerations
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum software development teams
- Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills
- Experience testing cloud-native applications on AWS
- Familiarity with Kafka or event-driven architectures
- Experience testing multi-tenant SaaS applications
- Familiarity with K6 or other performance testing tools
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools
- Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams
Benefits
- Bonus structure
- 401k match
- Generous PTO
- Tuition reimbursement for eligible coursework based on role and tenure
Company Overview
- Frontline Education is an integrated insights software primarily focusing on human capital management. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.frontlineeducation.com/.
Company H1B Sponsorship
- Frontline Education has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 3 in 2023, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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