Why You'll Love This Role:
As a Senior Full-Stack QualityEngineer, you will be a critical force in ensuring that mission is delivered through reliable, high-quality software. You will work alongside talented product engineers to test complex front-end applications powered by cloud-based back-end services, internal LLMs, and third-party AI tools. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in test automation, API validation, manual testing, and performance testing, with a proactive mindset and excellent organizational skills. This role requires someone who can deeply understand business and technical requirements and translate them into effective test strategies.
What You'll Be Doing:
- You will own quality end-to-end: from story acceptance criteria all the way to production health monitoring.
- You will perform manual testing for exploratory, regression, and end-to-end scenarios when needed.
- You will review and analyze business and technical requirements to define appropriate test coverage Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure quality across the SDLC.
- You will build API and service-layer test automation from scratch; test APIs both manually (via tools like Postman) and through automated scripts.
- You will test internally built LLMs and AI-driven features for accuracy, consistency, and edge case behavior.
- Evaluate third-party AI tools and services integrated into the Newsela platform.
About You:
- 7+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience in a professional engineering environment.
- 4+ years building automated test frameworks and scripts using TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python.
- 4 + years of hands-on experience with WebdriverIO and/or Playwright.
- 4+ years working in an Agile Scrum team.
- Demonstrated experience across the full spectrum of testing types: manual, exploratory, regression, integration, API/services, and database testing.
- Experience testing both web applications and mobile apps.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as part of your daily workflow.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — you can explain a bug to a developer and a risk to a product manager equally well.
- Prior experience in EdTech or consumer-facing SaaS products.
Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits
About Newsela:
Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.
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