Newsela

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject. They provide engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires. With a focus on meaningful classroom le...

Diversified Consumer Services

Consumer Discretionary

251-1K (420)

Founded 2013

$172M raised

7 open positions

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Contractor: Senior Quality Engineer

1 month ago

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica

Contract

Senior

QA Engineer

DevOps and Infrastructure

Agile AWS CI/CD CircleCI Datadog GCP Git GitHub Actions JavaScript Jest JIRA JMeter K6 LLM Locust Mocha New Relic Playwright Python Scrum Selenium TypeScript

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Newsela

Diversified Consumer Services

251-1K

Founded 2013

$172M raised

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Description

Build, maintain, and execute automated test frameworks and regression suites across UI, API, and service layers.
Test and validate internal LLMs, external AI tools, and other non-deterministic systems.
Own test planning, execution, and release support from story validation through production deployment.
Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to turn ambiguous requirements into clear, testable acceptance criteria.
Serve as the team’s quality advocate by providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, and mentoring other quality engineers.
Establish best practices for defect tracking, triage, communication, and issue reproduction.
Monitor production health and support defect detection and resolution.
Collaborate in scrum ceremonies and escalate release risks and defect trends to stakeholders.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software testing and QA experience in an Agile Scrum environment.
5+ years building test frameworks with TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python.
Hands-on experience with WebdriverIO or Playwright.
Experience with manual, exploratory, regression, integration, API/services, and database testing.
Solid understanding of Git branching strategies, PR workflows, and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
Ability to actively participate in scrum ceremonies and support production escalations.
Experience in EdTech, SaaS/B2B software, or e-learning/online education platforms.
Experience with Playwright, WebdriverIO, or Selenium for E2E browser automation.
Experience with Jest, Vitest, or Mocha for unit and integration testing.
Experience with k6, JMeter, or Locust, plus test execution via GitHub Actions and AWS.
Experience with Datadog, Sentry, or New Relic, and test management tools such as TestRail, Jira, Xray, or Zephyr.
Preferred: experience testing AI-driven features, LLM outputs, or ML-backed services.
Preferred: familiarity with performance and accessibility testing.
Preferred: experience with AWS or GCP and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
Preferred: prior background in EdTech or consumer-facing SaaS products.
Background check required as part of the pre-employment process.

Benefits

Remote work (role marked #LI-Remote).
Opportunity to work on AI-powered products and modern AI workflows.
High ownership and visibility within a scrum team.
Collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering, plus mentorship opportunities.

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