At Curriculum Associates we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation s K-8 students For more than 50 years our commitment to making classrooms better places serving educators and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs Our team of more than 2 500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day Essential duties responsibilities Work with more experienced QA team members to review the specific test cases that are to be automated and which ones will need to be manually tested Execute all manual and automation testing for your own feature area and carefully document defects to prevent churn with development Work with more experienced QA team members to author automated test cases within the proper test frameworks Work with more experienced QA members to provide support for testing when critical incident reports are handed down by our Support Escalations team Required Job Skills and Abilities Knowledge of multiple testing techniques and methodologies at an advanced level of competency and a keen sense of when to apply different techniques and methodologies and in which types of scenarios Must have strong collaboration skills with cross-functional peers and fellow QA team members Ability to comprehend and explain semi-complex systems and ability to understand how changes in one area can affect other parts of the system Must-Haves Multiple Testing TechniquesStrong knowledge of Functional Integration Regression testing Knowledge of exploratory testing and risk-based testing Microservices Testing ExpertiseStrong experience in testing distributed microservices architectures Knowledge of API testing REST gRPC and contract testing Familiarity with service-to-service authentication OAuth JWT etc Frontend TestingHands-on experience with UI testing frameworks e g Selenium Playwright or any javascript based framework Understanding of responsive design and cross-browser testing Automation SkillsProficiency in at least one automation framework Python Pytest or Playwright Experience with CI CD pipelines and test automation integration API Async Flow TestingExpertise in testing asynchronous flows Kafka or similar Familiarity with message brokers and event-driven architecture Strong Debugging Analytical SkillsAbility to analyze logs trace issues across services and use tools like Postman Kafdrop or Logstash Good-to-Haves AI ML KnowledgeBasic understanding of ML concepts training vs inference accuracy metrics Familiarity with testing fairness bias and explainability in AI models AI ML Application TestingExposure to testing AI ML-based applications model validation inference testing Ability to validate data pipelines and model integration in production Performance Load TestingExperience with tools like JMeter or Locust Cloud ContainerizationExposure to AWS services Knowledge of Docker for environment setup Observability MonitoringFamiliarity with tools like Splunk Datadog for monitoring applications Security TestingAwareness of common vulnerabilities like XSS etc and API security best practices Scripting Data ValidationAbility to write scripts for data validation and test data generation Version Control CollaborationExperience with Git GitHub GitLab and Agile methodologies Required Education and Experience Combination of education and industry experience amounting to 3 years of experience software testing Curriculum Associates LLC is an equal chance employer Curriculum Associates will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally-recognized basis including but not limited to race including ancestry national origin ethnic characteristics interracial marriage or 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