[Remote] Senior QA Engineer I & II Platform, Quality Engineering
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 infl