Nelson

QA Engineer

• Work with product, development, design, infrastructure, and QA teams to deliver reliable and accessible digital learning products
• Test web applications across frontend and backend using manual, API, database, automation, accessibility, and performance testing methods
• Participate throughout the software development lifecycle, including planning, design reviews, test preparation, testing, defect investigation, release validation, and production regression testing
• Create, maintain, and execute test plans, test scenarios, and test cases
• Test user interfaces, APIs, databases, integrations, and services
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, exploratory, integration, usability, and cross-browser testing
• Find, reproduce, investigate, and document defects in Jira
• Collaborate with stakeholders to investigate and resolve quality issues
• Validate work against functional requirements, acceptance criteria, design expectations, and quality standards
• Create, maintain, execute, and improve automated tests using Playwright or similar tools
• Improve automated regression suite structure, reliability, coverage, and maintainability
• Use AI coding assistants to support test development, troubleshooting, documentation, and QA activities
• Maintain QA documentation, testing standards, and reusable practices
• Participate in release testing and identify quality risks
• Support infrastructure and platform testing when assigned
• Use logs, traces, metrics, and distributed traces for defect investigation, triage, and root cause analysis
• Create and execute load and performance tests using k6 or similar tools
• Review performance metrics including response time, throughput, error rate, and p95 latency
• Compare performance results against baselines to identify regressions
• Investigate performance issues with developers and infrastructure engineers
• Assist with release and production readiness testing
• Work primarily from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM Eastern Time to support Pacific Time Zone teams

Senior QA Analyst – 12 months Contract