At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.
Essential duties/responsibilities:
1. Collaborate with developers, product owners, UI designers, and others in QA to design test
framework
2. Apply QA best practices and grow test automation coverage across business systems
3. Measure QA progress through key performance indicators
4. Analyze a feature and identify test coverage, as well as risks the team has not considered yet
5. 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
6. Create testing strategy to identify test cases best for automation vs. manual testing
7. Create devious tests that uncover unexpected problems
8. 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:
1. Testing– you have studied and practiced a variety of test frameworks, techniques, and
methodologies, and can compare pros and cons of each scenario
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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 undertest
7. 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 8.
Required Education and Experience:
1. 3+ years’ experience in creating test plans, for manual and automation testing, to support test strategy working in a quick 2-week sprints as apart of agile scrum team as well as extended timeline as an individual contributor on a project team.
2. Good to have experience in testing and analyzing automated testing failures in SaaS platforms such as Salesforce (SFDC), Rootstock as well as custom tools built in-house and Sitecore CMS.
3. 3+ years' experience with test automation tools such as Copado Robotics Testing (CRT), Selenium, and Playwright
