CareerPlan

Senior Quality & Automation Engineer

New YorkFull-time$150k2026-07-29 → 2026-11-12
Hybrid · United States

Core

Own and elevate the quality bar across the platform by ensuring high product quality for teachers and students while modernizing testing, performance, and release confidence.

Role type

Senior Quality & Automation Engineer (SDET)

Builds

Scalable automated testing suites, performance baselines, and AI-accelerated QA workflows for web, API, and AI-driven services.

Domain

EdTech / AI / Distributed Systems

Required skills

Test automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Jest, JUnit, PyTest), Performance and load testing (k6, Artillery, Gatling, JMeter, Locust), CI/CD integration, Cloud environments (AWS), Debugging distributed systems, API and database testing, Next.js, React, Kotlin, Java Spring Boot, Python FastAPI, LangSmith

Preferred skills

Testing AI/LLM features, Application performance monitoring, Distributed tracing, Internal tooling development

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable automated testing across end-to-end, integration, regression, and performance layers; Own performance and load testing for critical workflows; Build realistic workload models from production usage patterns; Diagnose performance bottlenecks across infrastructure and services; Evaluate and adopt AI-powered tools to accelerate test generation and maintenance; Partner with engineering to define acceptance criteria and prevent defects early; Improve release confidence through CI/CD integration and test observability; Mentor engineers on writing effective, maintainable tests.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC