Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer (24 months fixed-term)

Location:

Mountain View, CA / Remote (Continental US + Hawaii + Canada Only)

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world‑class education to anyone, anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high‑quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre‑K‑12 and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science. We have over 181 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, focusing on learners in historically under‑resourced communities.

As a Senior Quality Engineer at Khan Academy for a 24‑month fixed term, you will ensure the quality and reliability of our web‑based products used by schools and learners to improve educational outcomes. You will engage in both manual testing and test automation, developing and maintaining automated tests to detect regressions while also performing comprehensive manual testing of new features. Working within a cross‑functional product development team, you will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and support teams to advocate for exceptional user experiences through all stages of the product design and development lifecycle.

Your strong communication skills, keen eye, creativity, and experience in automated test development at all levels (frontend, backend, white box, and black box) will be key to your success in this role.

• Leverage your experience with AI tooling to accelerate the discipline of Quality Engineering on your team and across the department.
• In collaboration with your manager, define your team’s quality strategy and work with teammates to bring it to fruition.
• Own manual test plan development and execution for new features on the team.
• Build and maintain new test automation to fill coverage gaps using insights from manual testing, stakeholder priorities, and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional partners throughout the SDLC, including planning, design reviews, and development discussions to ensure quality is considered from the beginning.
• Use your creativity and extensive knowledge of testing tools and frameworks to find, document, and track bugs.
• Contribute to engineering guilds such as the Quality and Accessibility guilds, and participate in organizational affinity groups to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

• Proven experience in software product testing and test automation with a focus on quality engineering.
• Proficiency in test automation tools like Cypress, with hands‑on experience writing and maintaining automated tests.
• Strong manual testing skills, capable of designing and executing thorough test cases.
• Hands‑on experience using AI development tools to accelerate the QE role in novel ways.
• Experience shaping an engineering team’s quality strategy.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins.
• Knowledge of accessibility testing, including automated a11y testing, and familiarity with WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills to effectively collaborate and enhance testing processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams—product managers, designers, engineers, educational content creators, and support staff—to ensure product quality and reliability.
• Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.”
• Proven cross‑cultural competency skills demonstrating self‑awareness, awareness of others, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization.

Candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to onboarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies. If you’re looking for the opportunity to grow as a Quality expert, ensuring Khan Academy ships high‑quality products that solve real problems for learners and educators, we’d love to hear from you.

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