Senior QA Engineer I & II Platform, Quality Engineering

Senior QA Engineer I & II Platform, Quality Engineering

Location: Remote, USA

Overview

At Frontline Education, our mission is simple: we transform how schools work, so every educator and student succeeds. Our vision is that every school thrives and every community strengthens.

Responsibilities

Quality Engineering & Test Strategy

• Partner with engineering teams throughout discovery, refinement, design, development, testing, and release activities.
• Ensure requirements are testable, measurable, and operationally sound.
• Identify functional, integration, performance, reliability, security, and operational quality risks early in the development lifecycle.
• Develop comprehensive testing strategies and validation approaches that support scalable platform capabilities.
• Contribute to reusable quality engineering patterns, standards, and best practices across Platform Engineering.
• Improve release readiness, operational confidence, and overall engineering quality.

Test Automation & Validation

• Design, build, maintain, and execute automated testing solutions across frontend, backend, API, integration, workflow, and distributed systems.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers to embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows.
• Expand automation coverage while improving maintainability, reliability, and execution efficiency.
• Support validation of cloud-native architectures, event‑driven systems, and shared platform services.
• Contribute to resiliency testing, operational validation, monitoring verification, and production readiness activities.

Performance & Non‑Functional Quality

• Design and execute performance, scalability, resiliency, and operational testing strategies.
• Analyze test results and identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and optimization opportunities.
• Partner with engineering teams to establish measurable quality objectives and operational benchmarks.
• Help drive platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence initiatives.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with Product Managers, Technical Leads, Architects, UX teams, and software engineers throughout the product lifecycle.
• Participate in design reviews and technical discussions from a quality engineering perspective.
• Communicate testing approaches, quality risks, validation results, and operational considerations effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, shared ownership, and engineering excellence.
• Support and mentor fellow engineers while helping elevate quality practices across the organization.

AI‑First Quality Engineering

• Leverage modern AI‑assisted development and testing tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and emerging technologies to accelerate testing, automation, troubleshooting, analysis, and documentation.
• Apply strong engineering judgment when evaluating, refining, and validating AI‑generated outputs.
• Use AI to improve productivity while maintaining high standards for reliability, maintainability, governance, security, and operational integrity.
• Champion thoughtful and responsible use of AI across quality engineering practices.

Qualifications

Senior QA Engineer I

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of quality engineering or software testing experience.
• Experience designing and executing comprehensive testing strategies for complex features, APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in test automation and modern quality engineering practices.
• Experience identifying quality risks and improving release confidence within engineering teams.
• Ability to mentor peers and contribute to quality engineering best practices.
• Demonstrated success collaborating across cross‑functional Agile teams.
• Experience leveraging AI‑assisted development or testing tools to improve efficiency and quality outcomes.

Senior QA Engineer II

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of quality engineering or software testing experience.
• Deep expertise across functional, integration, performance, resiliency, operational, and automation testing disciplines.
• Experience leading quality strategy across large initiatives, shared platforms, or multiple engineering teams.
• Proven success defining testing frameworks, automation approaches, and quality standards that scale.
• Strong systems‑thinking capabilities and experience influencing platform reliability and operational excellence.
• Experience coaching engineers and elevating quality engineering maturity across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions, release readiness, and quality outcomes across broader organizational initiatives.
• Experience establishing standards for AI‑assisted testing and automation practices.

Required Technical Experience for Both Levels

• Strong experience with modern testing frameworks and tools, including:
  • Playwright
  • Selenium
  • K6
  • Familiarity with Cypress
• Experience with:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • API testing
  • Integration testing
  • Performance testing
  • Event‑driven architectures
  • Cloud‑native distributed systems
  • Operational validation concepts
• Experience working within Agile software development environments.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing distributed cloud‑native platforms built on AWS.
• Familiarity with Kafka or similar event‑streaming technologies.
• Experience testing multi‑tenant SaaS platforms.
• Experience contributing to quality engineering strategy and automation architecture.
• Familiarity with React application testing approaches.
• Experience with observability, telemetry, monitoring, and operational readiness validation.
• Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Experience leveraging AI‑assisted or agentic engineering workflows in professional environments.

What You’ll Need to Thrive

• A strong ownership mindset that embraces accountability and continuous improvement.
• A collaborative approach that reflects our belief that we’re better together.
• A commitment to understanding customer needs and delivering outcomes that create lasting value.
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to balance short‑term delivery with long‑term quality and maintainability.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a passion for learning new technologies and practices.
• Confidence operating within evolving environments and solving complex problems.
• A desire to build scalable, reliable, and impactful solutions that support educators and students.

Compensation & Benefits

• The full base salary range for a level 1 is: $110,000–$125,000
• The full base salary range for a level 2 is: $110,00–$135,000
• Competitive base salary aligned to level, experience, skills, and market data.
• Annual bonus opportunity.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employee stock purchase opportunities where applicable.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development support.
• Flexible time off and wellness‑focused benefits.

Inclusion, Belonging & Equal Opportunity

Frontline Education is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We aspire to have an inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join our team.