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Contractor: Senior Quality Engineer in Remote

  • Newsela
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Argentina

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and execute automated test frameworks and regression suites across UI, API, and service layers.
  • Test and validate internally built LLMs and external AI tools and services, including non-deterministic features.
  • Own test planning, execution, and release support from story validation through production deployment.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design to turn ambiguous requirements into testable acceptance criteria.
  • Advocate for software quality, provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and mentor mid-level quality engineers.
  • Establish defect tracking, triage, and communication practices and use AI tooling for issue detection, reproduction, and resolution.
  • Monitor production health, surface release risks and defect trends, and support production escalations.

Requirements

  • At least five years of professional software testing and QA experience in an Agile Scrum environment.
  • At least five years of experience building test frameworks with TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Hands-on experience with WebdriverIO or Playwright, with familiarity with Selenium, Jest, Vitest, or Mocha.
  • Experience across manual, exploratory, regression, integration, API/services, database, performance, and accessibility testing.
  • Experience with Git branching strategies, pull request workflows, incremental CI/CD deployment pipelines, GitHub Actions, and AWS.
  • Experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
  • Experience with performance tools such as k6, JMeter, or Locust.
  • Experience with observability and error tracking tools such as Datadog, Sentry, or New Relic.
  • Experience with test management tools such as TestRail, Jira, Xray, or Zephyr.
  • Industry experience in EdTech, SaaS/B2B software, or e-learning and online education platforms.
  • Preferred experience testing AI-driven features, LLM outputs, or ML-backed services.
  • Preferred familiarity with cloud platforms and CI/CD tools including GCP and CircleCI.
  • Strong communication, quality ownership, production escalation, and mentoring capabilities.

Benefits

  • Remote role.
  • Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Newsela

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