Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Frontline Education is dedicated to transforming how schools operate to ensure success for every educator and student. They are seeking a Senior QA Engineer I or II to ensure the reliability and operational excellence of their platform capabilities, collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance quality strategies and automation.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering teams throughout discovery, refinement, design, development, testing, and release activities
- Ensure requirements are testable, measurable, and operationally sound
- Identify functional, integration, performance, reliability, security, and operational quality risks early in the development lifecycle
- Develop comprehensive testing strategies and validation approaches that support scalable platform capabilities
- Contribute to reusable quality engineering patterns, standards, and best practices across Platform Engineering
- Improve release readiness, operational confidence, and overall engineering quality
- Design, build, maintain, and execute automated testing solutions across frontend, backend, API, integration, workflow, and distributed systems
- Collaborate closely with software engineers to embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows
- Expand automation coverage while improving maintainability, reliability, and execution efficiency
- Support validation of cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, and shared platform services
- Contribute to resiliency testing, operational validation, monitoring verification, and production readiness activities
- Design and execute performance, scalability, resiliency, and operational testing strategies
- Analyze test results and identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and optimization opportunities
- Partner with engineering teams to establish measurable quality objectives and operational benchmarks
- Help drive platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence initiatives
- Partner with Product Managers, Technical Leads, Architects, UX teams, and software engineers throughout the product lifecycle
- Participate in design reviews and technical discussions from a quality engineering perspective
- Communicate testing approaches, quality risks, validation results, and operational considerations effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, shared ownership, and engineering excellence
- Support and mentor fellow engineers while helping elevate quality practices across the organization
- Leverage modern AI-assisted development and testing tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and emerging technologies to accelerate testing, automation, troubleshooting, analysis, and documentation
- Apply strong engineering judgment when evaluating, refining, and validating AI-generated outputs
- Use AI to improve productivity while maintaining high standards for reliability, maintainability, governance, security, and operational integrity
- Champion thoughtful and responsible use of AI across quality engineering practices
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years of quality engineering or software testing experience for Senior QA Engineer I
- 8+ years of quality engineering or software testing experience for Senior QA Engineer II
- Experience designing and executing comprehensive testing strategies for complex features, APIs, integrations, and distributed systems
- Strong expertise in test automation and modern quality engineering practices
- Experience identifying quality risks and improving release confidence within engineering teams
- Ability to mentor peers and contribute to quality engineering best practices
- Demonstrated success collaborating across cross-functional Agile teams
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development or testing tools to improve efficiency and quality outcomes
- Deep expertise across functional, integration, performance, resiliency, operational, and automation testing disciplines for Senior QA Engineer II
- Experience leading quality strategy across large initiatives, shared platforms, or multiple engineering teams for Senior QA Engineer II
- Proven success defining testing frameworks, automation approaches, and quality standards that scale for Senior QA Engineer II
- Strong systems-thinking capabilities and experience influencing platform reliability and operational excellence for Senior QA Engineer II
- Experience coaching engineers and elevating quality engineering maturity across teams for Senior QA Engineer II
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions, release readiness, and quality outcomes across broader organizational initiatives for Senior QA Engineer II
- Experience establishing standards for AI-assisted testing and automation practices for Senior QA Engineer II
- Strong experience with modern testing frameworks and tools, including Playwright, Selenium, K6, and familiarity with Cypress
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with API testing
- Experience with Integration testing
- Experience with Performance testing
- Experience with Event-driven architectures
- Experience with Cloud-native distributed systems
- Experience with Operational validation concepts
- Experience working within Agile software development environments
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- Experience testing distributed cloud-native platforms built on AWS
- Familiarity with Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies
- Experience testing multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- Experience contributing to quality engineering strategy and automation architecture
- Familiarity with React application testing approaches
- Experience with observability, telemetry, monitoring, and operational readiness validation
- Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows in professional environments
Benefits
- Annual bonus opportunity.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Employee stock purchase opportunities where applicable.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development support.
- Flexible time off and wellness-focused benefits.
- Personalized Time Off: Take time when it’s needed most — whether that’s a family vacation, a reset day, or simply time to rest and refocus.
- Paid Sick Time: Separate, dedicated sick leave to care for yourself or loved ones.
- Volunteer Time Off: Paid time to give back and support causes that matter to you.
- Ten Paid Holidays: Enjoy meaningful moments and traditions throughout the year.
- World-Class Learning Access: Explore thousands of on-demand courses through platforms like LinkedIn Learning.
- Leadership & Technical Skill Building: Develop new capabilities and chart your own professional path.
- AI Empowerment: Use OpenAI tools to build fluency with emerging technology and harness AI as a creative partner for innovation and problem-solving.
- Tuition Reimbursement: Invest in formal education to advance your skills and career.
- Ongoing Learning Culture: Participate in company-led webinars on AI, inclusion, and industry trends—designed to inspire curiosity and continuous improvement.
- Wellness Initiatives: Company-sponsored programs that support physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Confidential support for you and your family’s needs.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Health and financial benefits that support your happiness and future.
Company Overview
Frontline Education is an integrated insights software primarily focusing on human capital management. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.frontlineeducation.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Frontline Education has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2023, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.