Fast Facts

Kiddom is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of their educational platform by integrating AI technologies into testing processes, managing projects, and providing feedback on requirements. This role requires strong ownership, communication skills, and technical expertise in QA and automation tools.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include project leadership, requirement analysis, designing and executing tests, integrating AI tools into QA workflows, validating AI features, conducting defect analysis, and supporting customer-reported issues.

Skills: Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in manual testing, expertise in QA concepts, proficiency in functional automation tools like Playwright and Selenium, and the ability to leverage AI in testing processes.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a strong communication ability and a high level of accountability, along with acute attention to detail and problem-solving skills.

Location: This position is located in either San Francisco or New York, with no remote option specified.

Compensation: $110000 - $165000 / Annually

About Kiddom

Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will play an important role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our educational platforms. You will work at the intersection of traditional quality assurance and cutting-edge AI technology, contributing to our testing infrastructure and improving learning outcomes for our users. You are expected to exemplify company values and possess the capabilities to keep the team on track through independent project management and process adherence.

What You'll Do...

• Project Leadership: Keep team projects on track, demonstrating strong ownership and initiative, while effectively managing interactions with cross-functional partner groups.
• Technical Estimation & Strategy: Independently and accurately estimate the QA level of effort (costing) for projects, considering maintenance, timelines, and business pressures.
• Requirement Analysis & Design Feedback: Deeply understand and analyze user stories, product specifications, and requirements to ensure testability. Provide critical feedback on functional issues, acceptance criteria, and design flaws early in the development lifecycle.
• Testing & Debugging: Design and execute comprehensive tests, and debug complex issues, in possibly unfamiliar areas of the application.
• AI Tooling: Proactively integrate AI tools into your QA workflows to improve efficiency and accuracy, while evaluating and recommending specific testing tools (e.g., self-healing scripts, AI-driven test generation) to increase team velocity.
• Testing AI Features: Validate AI-driven educational features, such as personalized learning paths or automated grading systems, ensuring accuracy and bias mitigation.
• Automation & Code Quality: Create complex test scripts, and conduct high-quality code reviews for automated scripts with actionable feedback.
• Documentation: Develop thorough test plans that prioritize maintainability and address immediate business needs. Utilize LLMs to generate test data, summarize bug reports, and create initial drafts of test documentation.
• Defect Management: Conduct in-depth defect analysis to identify root causes and trends, improving overall product quality.
• Support: support customers by triaging user-reported issues. 

What we're looking for...

• 5+ years of professional experience in functional manual testing.
• Expert Knowledge: Expert understanding of core QA concepts, testing strategies, and the software test cycle process.
• Automation Proficiency: Deep experience with functional automation tools (Playwright, Selenium, and JUnit, etc.)
• AI Tooling: Proven ability to use AI tools for test automation, bug triage, and test data generation to streamline repetitive tasks.
• Communication & Influence: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a track record of contributing materially outside of individual work to assist the wider team.
• Debugging Skills: Strong ability to solve technical issues in both familiar and unfamiliar functionality.
• Work Style: Excellent attention to detail, high accountability, and the ability to handle problems from start to finish with an appropriate response.

$110,000 - $165,000 a year

Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

What we offer

Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:

* Competitive salary

* Meaningful equity

* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance

* One Medical membership (in participating locations)

* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.

* 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)

* Paid holidays

* Paid bereavement leave

* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.

* Commuter and FSA plans

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.