Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. StrongMind is a remote-first education and technology company that develops technology-powered learning experiences for students, families, and educators. The QA Engineer, Test Orchestration will build AI-driven testing workflows, own regression testing strategy, establish quality gates, improve CI/CD signal quality, and help engineering teams strengthen software quality and release readiness.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate AI-driven testing workflows using agents, automation, and orchestration to expand test coverage and accelerate feedback
- Develop and maintain an end-to-end regression strategy, including test prioritization, risk-based coverage, and suite maintainability
- Partner with Release to define testing procedures, quality gates, exit criteria, and go/no-go recommendations for production readiness
- Optimize regression testing through intelligent test selection, parallelization, flaky-test remediation, and risk-based coverage
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to improve testability, failure observability, and signal-to-noise within CI/CD pipelines
- Analyze release risk, failure patterns, and escaped defects to identify opportunities for additional automation and prevention
- Establish and promote shared QA standards, test-design practices, and regression strategies across product teams
- Use AI tooling thoughtfully by prompting, evaluating, and governing agentic test generation and triage to ensure results remain accurate and trustworthy
- Mentor QA peers and help engineering teams adopt modern testing and quality practices
- Participate in release readiness reviews and post-incident learning sessions to strengthen future prevention
- This position requires availability to work core business hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Arizona time, Monday through Friday
Skills
- Proven experience owning QA strategy, test automation, and release readiness within production software environments
- Strong knowledge of test orchestration, including coordinating multi-step test pipelines, agents, jobs, and environments across CI/CD and release processes
- Demonstrated ability to design regression suites that balance comprehensive coverage with speed through test selection, sharding, prioritization, and parallel execution
- Strong foundation in test design, including risk-based testing, exploratory testing, automation frameworks, and failure triage
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted testing, agentic workflows, or LLM-enabled quality tooling
- Experience partnering with Release or DevOps teams on testing procedures, quality gates, and production readiness criteria
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and make clear trade-offs between coverage, speed, and release risk
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate quality status, risk, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical partners
- A systems-minded approach to quality, with a focus on building scalable processes rather than creating testing bottlenecks
- Alignment with StrongMind's core values: Kindness, Accountability, Collaboration, Innovation, and Grit
- This position requires availability to work core business hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Arizona time, Monday through Friday
- We welcome all qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States. At this time, we are unable to sponsor visas
- Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar end-to-end testing frameworks at scale
- Familiarity with cloud-based CI/CD and distributed test execution, including GitHub Actions, AWS, or similar technologies
- Experience reducing flaky tests and improving pipeline reliability and signal quality
- Experience defining QA standards, playbooks, or cross-team quality frameworks
- Experience evaluating AI-generated tests for correctness, coverage value, and maintainability
- Experience in EdTech or other mission-driven product environments
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits
- On-site gym
- Virtual wellness programs
- Wellness coaching
- Flexible work options for select roles
- Unlimited PTO for exempt roles
- Additional “life happens” days
- A fully paid holiday week off at Christmas
- Recognition and rewards for birthdays, meaningful milestones, legendary work, and community service hours
- Quarterly Town Halls
- Annual social events and traditions, including Halloween celebrations and Wellness Fairs
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