Quality Assurance Engineer

Education Analytics (EA) is a national non-profit organization located in downtown Madison, WI that uses data and analytics to improve outcomes for students and increase equity in education. We work closely with our partners to illuminate patterns in data that drive change. At EA, we believe in a culture that is collaborative, equitable, mission-driven, human-centered, innovative, and rigorous. We believe in the potential of people to foster continuous improvement.

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Position Description

We are seeking a qualified, software Quality Assurance Engineer with experience in web-based customer-facing software applications to be part of the Partner Strategy team that supports, builds, and maintains our educational services platforms and web applications. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in the testing of software products at Education Analytics by working with a cross-functional team of experts using agile-scrum practices as well as
demonstrate strong leadership skills in understanding project goals, individual role operations, the delivery process, identify testing dependencies, highlight issues, and risks to product teams. This position will report to the Director of Product & Development Operations and will have significant freedom to structure, plan, and implement EA's Quality Assurance roadmap. If you are looking to contribute to software with an eye towards a social mission to help kids, please apply. We are looking for passionate technologists that accept nothing but the best for our education systems.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform manual, exploratory and performance testing, leveraging an end-to-end system testing methodology
• Consult on QA strategy and best practices for testing regarding regression, release, etc. and work with teams to ensure their work aligns with best practices
• Create and maintain testing progress and quality reports
• Anticipate feature release problems and take corrective action, escalating as needed, to resolve and achieve commitments
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills in understanding project goals, individual role operations, the delivery process, identify testing dependencies, highlight issues, and risks to project team

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of software Quality Assurance experience in web-based customer-facing software applications
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience using industry standard software QA tools
• The ability to define and execute a comprehensive testing strategy and writing reusable manual test cases
• Knowledge of foundation, principles and techniques of software development and agile scrum processes
• Experience with A/B Testing methods and technology
• Experience in manual API testing
• Experience with automation testing and scripting a plus
• Comfort in setting up a CI/CD environment with test setup integration knowledge
• Practical experience using source code control system
• The abilities to define and implement a QA tool strategy
• Familiarity with AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud platforms (or similar) and SQL
• Excellent team communication and attention to detail
  

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering, similar disciplines or has equivalent years of work experience
• Preparedness to develop scalable and reusable testing processes and execute them in an Agile/Scrum-based development environment
• Experience testing distributed or Cloud Architectures
• Experience with dimensional databases and data modeling
• Experience with test automation technologies
  

Compensation and Benefits

The starting salary for the Quality Assurance Engineer position is $75,000-85,000, based on experience. EA also has a generous benefits package including:

• A 12% employee salary contribution from EA to your 401k retirement plan
• An additional 3% salary deferral match by EA to your 401k
• 26.5 days of paid vacation annually + sick paid time off that accumulates per pay period + 9 paid holidays of your choosing.
• 93% of health insurance premium paid for by EA
• Paid parental leave (if eligibility requirements are met)

EA's primary location is in downtown Madison, WI, on the Capitol Square. Steps away from coffee shops, a weekly farmers' market, restaurants, shops, and two lakes, many staff walk, bike, or use public transportation to commute to a well-appointed office.

Additional Information

Equal Employment Opportunity

Education Analytics is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.