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Contractor: Senior Fullstack QA Engineering Services

Newsela provides school districts with authentic instructional content that supports their curriculum, empowers teachers across subjects to promote standards-based instruction, and drives student engagement and learning.

Newsela

Employee count: 501-1000

AR, BR + 1 more

Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Argentina, Mexico, or Brazil for a Senior Fullstack QA Engineer with a deep understanding of manual, API, and automated agile testing in the SDLC. This position involves working with talented engineers to build a front-end application utilizing cloud back-end services and other modern technologies. You will be responsible for delivering quality applications and services with other QA Engineers.

Scope of Services:

  • Required to test stories/bugs manually and then incrementally build automated tests.
  • Responsible for developing and executing test plans and supporting production releases.
  • Responsible for developing new & refactoring existing automated regression test cases using a typescript programming language in webdriverIO/Playwright Automation Framework.
  • Responsible for testing internally built LLM's and external AI tools/services.
  • Build test automation from scratch at the services/API layer.
  • Be able to test API manually or with automated calls.
  • Collaborate with Developers, product owners, and other QE engineers to strategize and execute test plans.
  • Be an advocate for software quality throughout all phases of development.
  • Effectively communicate test status and progress to all stakeholders. You will find, document, and track bugs as needed.
  • Responsible for all types of software testing in a scrum. This role will involve interacting with product owners, developers, and other QA teams.

Skills & Experience:

  • 7 + years of software testing and quality assurance experience.
  • 2 + years of WebdriverIO/PlayWright experience.
  • 4 + years of experience developing software testing frameworks and test scripts using TypeScript/JavaScript or Python.
  • Hands-on experience in building automated scripts in an agile environment.
  • Hands-on experience with various testing types: manual testing, regression testing, integration testing, services testing, and database testing.
  • 4 + years of working experience in an Agile Scrum environment.
  • Experience in writing and executing manual and automated test cases for features on various applications, including websites and mobile apps.
  • Experience in testing AI driven services & LLM's would be beneficial but not a must.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.

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Argentina +/- 0 hours, and 2 other timezones

About Newsela

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Newsela provides school districts with authentic instructional content that supports their curriculum, empowers teachers across subjects to promote standards-based instruction, and drives student engagement and learning. Content is published daily at 5 reading levels and aligned to standards with student activities and teaching scaffolds designed to bring lessons to life. With over 20 million users, Newsela is already helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries.

We're looking for passionate, creative people with quick minds and warm hearts to join us. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.

Employee benefits

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Time Off

Unlimited time to recharge.

Learning

Continue your learning — on us!

Wellness

Discounts and resources to stay healthy: mind, body, and soul.

Health

Access to the world’s leading medical experts for healthcare. Pets included!

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Newsela

Company size

501-1000 employees

Founded in

2013

Chief executive officer

Matthew Gross

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