Coursedog
Quality Assurance Manager
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $135K - $170K
💻 Quality Assurance
🗓️ February 4th, 2025
MongoDB
Node.js
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Coursedog is hiring a Quality Assurance Manager. The role involves overseeing and managing QA engineers, collaborating with stakeholders to enhance quality assurance processes, and defining and implementing quality standards. The ideal candidate will own the quality dashboard, assist in testing when needed, and lead strategic quality initiatives.
Highlights
- Manage and lead individual contributor QA engineers.
- Require expertise in Cypress and TestRail.
- Compensation ranges from $135,000 to $170,000 per year.
- Must have 5+ years of relevant QA experience and 2+ years of technical management experience.
- Offer substantial health coverage, retirement plans, and an unlimited paid time off policy.
- Participate in setting and meeting quality standards for SaaS applications.
- Provide up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Have a BS, MS, or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field.
- Experience with Node.js, Express, Vue, and MongoDb is a plus.
Quality Assurance Manager Full Description
We seek an innovative, fast-learning, and detail-oriented person to join our Engineering team as a QA Manager. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment and cares deeply about quality and user experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee and manage our individual contributor QA engineers, leading them through planning, execution, coaching, and career development.
- Work closely with stakeholders across engineering, product and support to refine and evolve Coursedog’s quality assurance and testing processes.
- Define quality standards and implement quality control procedures to ensure that releases meet the quality bar.
- Own the quality dashboard, tracking and evolving metrics and KPIs such as code coverage, escaped defects, mean time to resolution, change failure rate, and SLA attainment.
- Define standards for system stability and response time and collaborate with other engineering leaders to ensure the standards are met.
- Collaborate with engineering managers, product managers, and tech leads to define, track, and ensure successful execution of the manual and automated testing deliverables for team sprints.
- Serve as council lead for Coursedog’s strategic quality initiatives, collaborating with council members to ensure and report on continued progress against company wide tasks and deliverables.
- Ensure QA processes are state of the art and leverage a modern set of tools, frameworks, and technologies.
- Jump in and work in a hands-on capacity as needed to participate in testing and deliver unit, component and integration tests across the product suite.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
- 5+ years of relevant QA work experience and 2+ hands-on technical management experience.
- Track record of successfully setting and meeting quality standards for enterprise scale SaaS applications.
- Expertise in best practices and conventions for testing and automation, including familiarity with tools such as Cypress and TestRail.
- Ability to clearly articulate quality standards, testing processes, and expectations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Passionate about advocating for the end-user by ensuring that quality standards align with customer expectations and business objectives.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, flat environment with a focus on continuous improvement, ownership, and adaptability.
- BS, MS, or Ph.D. in computer science or related field.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Node.js, Express, Vue, and MongoDb.
Working at Coursedog
Benefits
- Healthcare: We pay 99% of your medical, dental, and vision coverage and 75% of the premium for your spouse and/or dependents
- Retirement: We offer a 401k plan on day one of your employment.
- Paid Time Off: We value work-life balance and provide a high amount of autonomy. In service to this, our Paid Time Off policy has no annual limit.
- Remote-First: We value flexible working hours over set hours, results over number of hours, and asynchronous communication focused on transparency over need-to-know access.
- Equity: You’ll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Every employee on our team gets a meaningful equity allocation.
- Parental Leave: To help support new parents in the workplace, we offer up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Coursedog is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce at all levels of the organization and creating an inclusive environment for all.
We value and encourage the contributions of our employees and strive to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential and drive outstanding results. We draw strength from our range of interests, backgrounds, and perspectives
We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.
Accommodations
Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities in all phases of the application and employment process. On your application, you will be prompted to inform us If you need any accommodation during this process.
