Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nectir is the secure AI infrastructure purpose-built for schools, providing personalized learning support. They are seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to build automation that significantly reduces QA turnaround time and enhance the release safety process.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate and implement automated testing tools (e.g., Playwright-based frameworks, UI regression tools like Meticulous) to cut QA turnaround time
- Write and maintain your own test scripts and automated checks, rather than relying on manual test passes
- Take ownership of high-volume, repetitive QA work (like dependency/package upgrade PRs) so the team isn't bottlenecked on a single reviewer
- Own visibility into the open PR queue — track how long PRs sit before and during QA, and flag where things are getting stuck
- Build a clear handoff process between Dev and QA (tagging, status, communication) so PRs move faster in both directions
- Proactively ask developers for what QA needs (screenshots, context, reproduction steps) instead of absorbing the delay silently
- Help design phased, contained release rollouts that limit the blast radius of a bad deploy, beyond what feature flags alone can do
- Grow into owning more of our release/rollout process as the role expands in an SRE direction
Skills
- An engineering background; you've written and shipped code, not just executed test cases. This isn't a traditional manual-QA role
- Experience building and maintaining test automation (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar) in a real production environment
- Comfortable pushing back, including with senior engineers, when a process or PR isn't ready to ship
- Product-first instincts: you ask 'what are we actually trying to achieve' before reaching for a technical or infrastructure solution
- Experience with release engineering, phased rollouts, or canary deployments
- Experience evaluating or standing up UI regression testing tools
- Interest in growing into a broader software reliability engineering role over time
- Background at a small, fast-moving team where you wore more than one hat
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
- 401k with employer match
- Equity (stock options)
- Flexible, remote-first work environment
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