Senior QA Engineer - Remote Eligible

Senior QA Engineer

The Senior QA Engineer at MagicSchool.ai will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our products. This is not a role where you simply execute test scripts — you'll be an active partner in QA strategy, helping engineering define what and how to test while driving best practices across the organization.

You won't be responsible for writing every test yourself — instead, you'll enable engineers to build quality into their code, own the QA infrastructure, and ensure we have the right testing coverage where it matters most. You'll balance ad-hoc manual testing, regression testing, and business-critical path validation with automation strategies to make sure we deliver a delightful, reliable user experience.

Responsibilities

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be responsible for:

1. Driving QA Strategy & Infrastructure

• Be an active partner in shaping our QA approach and processes.
• Define testing strategies across frontend, backend, and API layers to ensure we test the right things at the right level.
• Help engineers define and write tests but not own every test — especially unit tests.
• Establish and maintain the QA infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling needed for efficient testing at scale.

2. Testing Execution & Coverage

• Perform ad-hoc manual testing for new features and high-risk areas.
• Design and execute regression testing plans to prevent unexpected breakages.
• Lead business-critical path testing to ensure the core user flows always work flawlessly.
• Build and maintain automated test suites where they drive significant value — especially around integration, end-to-end, and regression testing.

3. Partnering with all of Engineering & Product

• Work closely with engineers to embed quality into the development process from day one.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to define acceptance criteria, edge cases, and risk areas early in the lifecycle.
• Advocate for quality-first thinking, ensuring we deliver features that are not only functional but also robust and reliable.
• Act as a bridge between engineering, product, and users to make sure we're building the right things and validating them thoroughly.

Qualifications / Competencies / Skills

• Gets a lot done: Proactive, resourceful, and committed to shipping high-quality products.
• Strategic thinker: Understands when to automate, when to test manually, and where to focus coverage.
• Collaborative mindset: Builds strong relationships with engineers and product managers, working together to raise the quality bar.
• Quality advocate: Passionate about preventing bugs rather than just finding them.
• Technical proficiency:
• Experience with test automation frameworks.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js preferred).
• Familiarity with API testing (REST, GraphQL) and tools like Postman or similar.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and integration of tests into automated deployments.
• Familiarity with load/performance testing, and monitoring tools.
• Experience leveraging generative AI in a QA test automation context

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in QA or software engineering, with a focus on test strategy, infrastructure, and automation, including mentoring or leading QA initiatives.
• Preferred: Startup experience, thriving in fast-paced, product-driven environments.

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge AI technology that directly impacts educators and students.
• Join a mission-driven team passionate about making education more efficient and equitable.
• Flexibility of working from home, while fostering a unique culture built on relationships, trust, communication, and collaboration with our team - no matter where they live.
• Unlimited time off to empower our employees to manage their work-life balance. We work hard for our teachers and users, and encourage our employees to rest and take the time they need.
• Choice of employer-paid health insurance plans so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Dental and vision are also offered at very low premiums.
• Every employee is offered generous stock options, vested over 4 years.
• Plus a 401k match & monthly wellness stipend

Our Values:

• Educators are Magic: Educators are the most important ingredient in the educational process - they are the magic, not the AI. Trust them, empower them, and put them at the center of leading change in service of students and families.
• Joy and Magic: Bring joy and magic into every learning experience - push the boundaries of what's possible with AI.
• Community: Foster community that supports one another during a time of rapid technological change. Listen to them and serve their needs.
• Innovation: The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change - AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have before.
• Responsibility: Put responsibility and safety at the forefront of the technological change that AI is bringing to education.
• Diversity: Diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds helps us serve the wide audience of educators and students around the world.
• Excellence: Educators and students deserve the best - and we strive for the highest quality in everything we do.