QA Manager
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Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
WHO WE ARE
Trusted by more than 700 institutions in more than 25 countries Ready Education offers the leading campus experience platform dedicated to building communities and supporting student success. Our unified solution combines academic and campus life enabling institutions to focus on growing engagement fostering belonging and community streamlining communications and automating key processes for students staff and community partners.
ROLE PURPOSE
As QA Manager at Ready Education you will lead and grow our quality assurance function across our student engagement platform. Youll set the overall QA strategy mentor a team of QA engineers and work closely with Engineering Product and Design to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Youll balance hands-on involvement from test design to automation with the strategic oversight needed to scale QA practices as we grow globally. Were looking for someone who is genuinely excited about the transformative potential of AI in quality engineering from AI-assisted test generation and intelligent defect analysis to leveraging the latest tools to keep our QA practice at the bleeding edge.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Own and evolve the QA strategy across Ready Educations SaaS platform covering manual automated performance and accessibility testing.
Lead mentor and grow a team of QA engineers fostering a culture of quality curiosity and continuous improvement.
Champion the adoption of AI-powered tools and emerging technologies to enhance test coverage accelerate automation and improve defect detection across the platform.
Partner with engineering leads and product managers during feature design and sprint grooming to define acceptance criteria and surface edge cases early.
Oversee the development and maintenance of automated test suites (UI integration regression) using Playwright or equivalent frameworks.
Champion shift-left testing practices integrating QA input from discovery through to release.
Drive release readiness processes including smoke testing regression cycles and environment validation across web and mobile platforms.
Define and track QA metrics (defect escape rate test coverage regression cycle time etc.) and report on platform quality to senior leadership.
Manage QA tooling test environments and test data infrastructure in collaboration with DevOps and Platform Engineering. 1
Lead root cause analysis on critical defects and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.
Continuously refine the balance between manual exploratory testing and scalable automation across squad teams.
REQUIREMENTS
4 years of experience in software quality assurance with at least 2 years in a QA lead role; formal people management experience is a plus but not required were invested in developing the right person.
Proven experience testing SaaS platforms or large-scale multi-user web and mobile applications.
Strong technical foundation is essential: hands-on experience with Playwright (preferred) or comparable automation frameworks (e.g. Cypress Selenium Jest).
Ability to write review and maintain automated test scripts in JavaScript TypeScript or Python.
A genuine enthusiasm for AI and emerging tools in the QA space you stay current and actively look for ways to apply new technologies to testing workflows.
Strong understanding of QA methodology test design techniques and defect management practices.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments using tools such as Jira Linear or similar.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions CircleCI) and version control workflows (Git).
Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across distributed cross-functional teams.
Detail-oriented proactive and deeply user-focused mindset.
Experience with mobile app testing (iOS and/or Android) is a strong advantage.
Although this role is 100% remote the person in this position should be expected to travel for certain customer / industry / company events and engagements as necessary.
Ready Education is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender perception or identity national origin age marital status protected veteran status or disability status.
Trusted by more than 700 institutions in more than 25 countries Ready Education offers the leading campus experience platform dedicated to building communities and supporting student success. Our unified solution combines academic and campus life enabling institutions to focus on growing engagement fostering belonging and community streamlining communications and automating key processes for students staff and community partners.
ROLE PURPOSE
As QA Manager at Ready Education you will lead and grow our quality assurance function across our student engagement platform. Youll set the overall QA strategy mentor a team of QA engineers and work closely with Engineering Product and Design to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Youll balance hands-on involvement from test design to automation with the strategic oversight needed to scale QA practices as we grow globally. Were looking for someone who is genuinely excited about the transformative potential of AI in quality engineering from AI-assisted test generation and intelligent defect analysis to leveraging the latest tools to keep our QA practice at the bleeding edge.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Own and evolve the QA strategy across Ready Educations SaaS platform covering manual automated performance and accessibility testing.
Lead mentor and grow a team of QA engineers fostering a culture of quality curiosity and continuous improvement.
Champion the adoption of AI-powered tools and emerging technologies to enhance test coverage accelerate automation and improve defect detection across the platform.
Partner with engineering leads and product managers during feature design and sprint grooming to define acceptance criteria and surface edge cases early.
Oversee the development and maintenance of automated test suites (UI integration regression) using Playwright or equivalent frameworks.
Champion shift-left testing practices integrating QA input from discovery through to release.
Drive release readiness processes including smoke testing regression cycles and environment validation across web and mobile platforms.
Define and track QA metrics (defect escape rate test coverage regression cycle time etc.) and report on platform quality to senior leadership.
Manage QA tooling test environments and test data infrastructure in collaboration with DevOps and Platform Engineering. 1
Lead root cause analysis on critical defects and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.
Continuously refine the balance between manual exploratory testing and scalable automation across squad teams.
REQUIREMENTS
4 years of experience in software quality assurance with at least 2 years in a QA lead role; formal people management experience is a plus but not required were invested in developing the right person.
Proven experience testing SaaS platforms or large-scale multi-user web and mobile applications.
Strong technical foundation is essential: hands-on experience with Playwright (preferred) or comparable automation frameworks (e.g. Cypress Selenium Jest).
Ability to write review and maintain automated test scripts in JavaScript TypeScript or Python.
A genuine enthusiasm for AI and emerging tools in the QA space you stay current and actively look for ways to apply new technologies to testing workflows.
Strong understanding of QA methodology test design techniques and defect management practices.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments using tools such as Jira Linear or similar.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions CircleCI) and version control workflows (Git).
Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across distributed cross-functional teams.
Detail-oriented proactive and deeply user-focused mindset.
Experience with mobile app testing (iOS and/or Android) is a strong advantage.
Although this role is 100% remote the person in this position should be expected to travel for certain customer / industry / company events and engagements as necessary.
Ready Education is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender perception or identity national origin age marital status protected veteran status or disability status.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Quality Assurance
- FDA Regulations
- Food Industry
- Food Safety Experience
- ISO 9001
- Quality Systems
- Food Processing
- Quality Control
- Quality Management
- QA/QC
- Selenium
- HACCP
