Senior Test Engineer

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.

If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.

Our Client

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, our client is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Their captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Their formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Their programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, our client serves five million students in all 50 states.

Our client is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Our client has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

As a Senior Test Engineer , you will join a talented team tackling the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology – including user experience, APIs and services, and deployment pipelines.

What You’ll Do

• Impress the toughest customers around students by :
  • writing fast test automation using tools like webdriverIO or Selenium WebDriver
  • ensuring an equitable experience for students by ensuring application code runs great across platforms under variable memory and network constraints

• Make life better for passionate teachers by:

• • improving apps reliability and uptime by performing extensive load testing
  • writing lots of tests for APIs to ensure that their apps interoperate with ease
  • monitoring apps to make sure they are available to teachers and classrooms

• Help school administrators build great schools by:

• • building software that respects privacy and ensures security while offering useful insights
  • analyzing performance and finding tricky bugs using tools like DataDog or AWS CloudWatch

• Learn every day by:

• collaborating and having your code reviewed on a cross-functional team
• providing and receiving constructive feedback on a close-knit team
• participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Working on teams that craft immersive compelling experiences for teachers and students using the latest web tools.
• Implementing logic that handles student work: from persistence to selecting the right activity for the right student at the right moment.
• Optimizing software so that it can handle hundreds of thousands of kids with stability and security in mind.
• Ensuring existing software continues to function well by automating regression tests.
• Improving their workflows and tooling, and of course our existing customer experience.

Basic Requirements:

• BSCS or equivalent
• 5+ years test automation experience
• Excellent coding skills in Java, or Javascript, or another object-oriented language and the ability to quickly learn a new language
• Deep experience with relational databases
• Solid understanding of APIs
• Experience writing test automation for APIs
• Hands-on involvement in writing and running load tests
• Ability to work with a close-knit team and to both give and receive constructive feedback
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Datadog
• Practical knowledge of Agile processes
• Slack/Jira/Google Docs
• Git
• Jenkins
• CI
• AWS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong communication skills
• An interest in the education landscape and how to improve it

Benefits: PTO, Healthcare, and more!

Base Salary Range : $100,000-140,000